15 HOUR JOURNEY by Jackie Finch 1972
Giggling madly, I had to turn away
The sad pathetic face and distorted limbs
Hilariously sad.
My body was floating on a millimetre blue cloud
But as long as I acknowledged this, I was ok
Complicated thoughts – turmoil
Sudden fear – distorted time and motion
Badly did I fly
Reality turned its arse on me
I stretched out, all gone
Father was alien so was cat
Oh, Christ,
Hospital gushed out sores and blood
On my body, on my brain
Complete ignorance on their behalf.
Shaking, trembling long through the night
Reality had really travelled far
Three days, maybe four and finally I stopped
Questioning, grabbing, testing for materialness
Normality?
A POEM by Jackie Finch 1972
Peaceful drops of me and silence
Wound together in hazy gestures of
Shining eyes. Together we-us-now
Are
A swirling, churling, Furling mass of
Landscape, handchase, day dream dissolve
Around you I loved, we shared-changes
Into a loud quack – duck fear realization
Wings in water – beating, sweating rhythm
Black,bright your eyes are shining now my love
Only we can ever know
But oh such disaster; Great gigantic lumps of metal,
Brick,
Shit, mess,
Rubble, dirt,
Noise, being, people shattering, crashing, crushing us. If I
Had a bomb –
Ho peaceful drops of silence flowing from your brow
I’d kill us all.
By Jackie Finch (written in the Golden Cross C. 1973)
Strangers
Self, forceful beliefs
Breaking the fibres of warmth
Intolerance causing an anger
You do not feel
Smile without contempt
Smile on your friends and give way.
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