Slowly Being Pregnant

SLOWLY BEING PREGNANT.

Tourists may become involved in the earliest
experiments of the knife.
Being able to crystallise the tarts,
and upon the crisp white bed,
she was still communicating.
Tony sighed heavily and talked about his question,
"The girl with chips"
They licked the masses,
television now a passive reality.
Tony opened his questions.
The girl with Thomas in the crisp white bed,
she was not the queen.
Tony sighed heavily and he knew
a broken car silencer communicates
the past glories of groping.
In the crisp white bed, she was realised
with that magnificent instrument.
Tony revealed his youthful misdemeanours
and talked about his early years in smart jeans.
Sufficient remained led by making mistakes
and through his first achievements
began to be accessible to sleep -
two years in the heartache.
Tony sighed heavily and thought
there's the undiscovered country, but now...

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 5th July 1992

Publication

1996 Sivullien (Finland)

Neighbours

NEIGHBOURS

Venusians, Martians, God - all now
discredited as Myth,
the electronic multi-million-dollar search
goes on for our nearest galactic neighbours.

A thousand upturned saucers scan
the radio emissions of the galaxies,
listening on a million wavelengths
for the wow of a signal that will say
- another sun's planet hosts intelligent life - .

If they be there,
a billion light years away,
could they now be here,
watching us ?

Perhaps it indeed were they
who spoilt the crops of those peasants
starved of food and money
halfway across this living Earth !

© GERALD ENGLAND

Composed: Ashton under Lyne, 3rd March 1981

Publications

1990 X-Calibre (UK)
1993 Sivullinen (Finland)
1994 Dial 174 (UK)