Thursday, 27 December 2018

Titanic (December)

Silently I watch cards. Full house. I am the king of the world. I’m the captain, capsizing a lemon slice into my tea. I lust after Kate Winslet. I never leap from the stern. I hold on. I despise the fiancé, the mother. I jig, I jaunt. I wear the blue diamond. I know what I’m doing. I am the furnace. I am the iceberg, the collision, the what’s-that. I telegraph distress. I play the waltz. I huddle in lifeboats, drown in luxury, die of hypothermia. I’m December’s sunken chandelier, a pair of ragged claws. I cling to some timber.

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