Vagrant Magritte
© Chris Port, 5th July 2011
Vagrant Magritte
As you browse, you might want to listen to this sweet little track...
In the June heat
Vagrant Magritte
paints the pavements
an odd fish
like a moon who’s
lost his planet
and just orbits
an abyss.
Lunatics live
in the crevice
where a minute
stops a day
under bridges
sunless faces
like crevasses
drop away.
It takes talent
and bank balance
to keep spinning
all your plates
and you’ll wobble
like a bottle
if you step in
someone’s face
Do not weep, dear
men just sleep here
and your rash tears
wake his thirst
but there’s no beer
without cash, dear
so there’s no beer
for the cursed.
On his birthday
men did once say
hip hip hooray
long ago
as he listens
to the distance
for a song he
used to know.
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