Note on the Door
Pete -
I'm taking the kids -
please don't come after me.
My new address is
164 Mt View Rd
Auckland.
but that's just for
forwarding mail or
anything interesting.
About the bills -
please take care of them.
Our lawyer, Richard,
will be in touch - in fact he's
with me now,
Love always -
Roxy
(p.s. - it's my new name
like on the back
of those new jeans Richard
bought me recently -
did you notice?)
dying
there's a man killed by a bomb
there's a woman falling from a building
there's a head under the chopping board
there's builder under a pillar
there's a leader that's hit by a bullet
there's a boy that's hit by a car
there's a family lost in a plane crash
there's a youth OD'd on drugs
there's a soldier severed in combat
there's a girl knifed in the street
it's true - there's a million ways to die
and there's a poet writing poems
who does it so well each night
under a sun that is dying too...
©Mark Pirie
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