I am a clown performing slapstick at a funeral,
Cassandra whispering to Narcissus,
an ant on the lawn at a posh garden party

The rain is expected to stop in 8 minutes and start again in 29 minutes

Look at the faint rain twisting
itself into the ground,
making dry things resign themselves
to different states of damp.

Nothing I can tell you to answer your question —
      all I can muster is that
it was that production of King Lear, Edgar emerging

O celebrated bard, you should know
espresso mixed with drags of Gauloise
won’t steady your head.

Much like a burnt-out farmer flumping down
upon his ache-allaying, tender bed

Each year we climbed to that place high above the ruins.

People came to find out what ‘Garage Sale’ meant
in a small village landlocked county early burning comet tail
of Thatcher’s Britain.