Hard Materials

With compliments

The poem regrets

it cannot make use of the

enclosed editor.

Edward Hopper knew a good mystery when he painted one

Why, Summertime girl,

do you look so longingly

from your bottom step?

Mysteries of lust

There’s so much beauty;

where was it all when I was

young enough to care?

Finchley Central blues
Margaret Thatcher:
you ruined my salad days
but you’re senile now.

The vivisectionist’s question

Don’t you think monkeys

would experiment on us

if they were able?

Global warning

The weather seems worse

than it was in the old days;

but it’s hard to tell.

My new reality TV show

Eight men and women

locked in a house surrounded

by fake cameras.