Wider When Standing
After Les Murray
Lower gravity means less weight
and a woman is wider upright.
Phonophobia is a natural fear of loudness.
You may fear your own voice.
Norway is the happiest country in 2017.
A whip crack breaks the speed of sound.
Lower gravity means less weight
and a woman is wider when standing.
Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn played with Booker T
and the MGs who created Soul Limbo.
A cricket’s chirp is made by stridulation
but only the males do it to attract females.
No earwig tunnels into your brain
to lay eggs but they have two penises.
Four minutes, thirty-three seconds.
Lower gravity means less weight
and Ecstasy was originally used
in psychological warfare to lower
inhibitions. It became the hottest thing
in the search for happiness by chemistry.
Zazen focuses on posture and breathing.
Quiet is where we go to see ourselves,
a meditation on nothing, a negation of noise,
even if silence is recorded, the recorder
whirs, the orchestra inhales, exhales.
Five hundred trees have visited the moon.
Good health is the slowest form of death.
Imelda’s shoe stash was eaten by termites.
Lower gravity means less weight.
Nothing hears you scream in space.
Sue Spiers helps out a bit with Winchester Poetry Festival and British Mensa’s Poetry SIG while encouraging editors to include bits, thanks Helen. South Bank Poetry has her ‘Breast’ and Bloodaxe has her ‘Fanny Farts’. @spiropoetry