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first pictures of a black hole

everything goes into this

now is the remembering

it’s what you forgot

to ask, say, do

‘rigamarole’

mum has the last word

and you think

just a little reprise on the way

something yet to utter

up and atom

weather, you like it or not

hullabaloo

every favourite word

you don’t say

imagine that old grey head pops up

larger than life

full of beans

just to add

we went out enjoying  

a lovely sunny day

then there was

blood poisoning

ptomaine

words no one else

has ever said

the weather was kind for the days we were there

and rustle up some homemade tucker

in the first pictures

naked

gaga gone

sucked down

other fascinating matter

dad is a ghost

come by dream

mum is a face woken to

worst thing is they always agree

here I am with no excuses

all night the ladder up to them

where heavens invent

well of sky falling

from which I draw

knocked for six

swimming like Alice

in my own

my greatest influence

true to sensible

well considered unbelief

arrived

back of the head

black hole

there’s never a last word