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My Favourite Poem at the moment is.....

  • 24-10-2006 2:58pm
    #1
    manonthemoon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 570 ✭✭✭


    Zoom!

    It begins as a house, an end terrace in this case
    but it will not stop there, soon it is an avenue
    which cambers arrogantly past the Mechanic's Institute, turns left
    at the main road without even looking
    and quickly it is
    a town with all four major clearing banks,
    a daily paper
    and a football team pushing for promotion.

    On it goes, oblivious of the Planning Acts,
    the green belts,
    and before we know, it is out of our hands:
    city, nation,
    hemisphere, universe, hammering out in all directions
    until suddenly,
    mercifully, it is drawn aside through the eye
    of a black hole
    and bulleted into a neighbouring galaxy, emerging
    smaller and smoother
    than a billiard ball but weighing more than Saturn.

    People stop me in the street, badger me
    in the check-out queue
    and ask 'What is this, this that is so small
    and so very smooth
    but whose mass is greater than the ringed planet?'
    It's just words
    I assure them. But they will not have it.


    Simon Armitage


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