I AM REMINDED

i am reminded of the righteous relief 

of ACTION

when yellow dawn comes bumping down 

chilling the fracture hangover of a waking night 

into the soft refresh of ice 

and warm wool coats

an old man who says 

HELLO MY FRIEND 

holds 100 different spanners

to mend all the doors

the light is odd in here/blue and bright and HD and CGI

the short nurses and the grey orderlies and the hard sisters

remind me 

SO MUCH 

of themselves

in blues 

and civvies 

and hats 

and paper caps 

and heels 

and plastic shoes

they teach me delusion and the essential fuck-lust of a new devil

the cleaning fluids flow and smell of almost fruit 

like school corridors and college toilets

by the flat gaze of noon the tension wires 

and i am reminded of the earth

i lived on

a 

long 

time 

ago