Do What’s Good For You
“Dirty seaweed,”
mother says.
“Put it down
and eat your burger.”
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Lunchtime Black
She sits
only for an hour.
But,
there is no golden revelation
at the bottom of a snatched paper cup.
No answer
between nervous bites
from a wilted balsa wood sandwich.
Not even
a smile to the sun,
as she beats away the swarm
of office edicts,
will set her free.
Just a hope
that she is not another face
amongst this conjurors’ madness of souls.
That alone
may see her through.
* Phil Lucas' first collection of poetry – Poems from the Seashore – was published in 2006. Earlier this year his first novel – Seaside Tales from Asper St. Jasper – came out, and these two poems come from his second collection – The Silence of the Suburbs, The Call of the Sea (ISBN 978 0955 6682 89) – which should be appearing anytime now. The publisher is Palores Publications, a tiny poetry only publishers based in Cornwall.
