He forgot to turn it into water.
Why did Jesus have 12 apostles?
He didn’t know the decimal system
Why did he spend 40 days in the wildnerness?
Because he slept 40 nights there
Tomorrow I shall eat a big icecream
Brought to me by courier when I choose
If I cannot get one I shall scream
Rather pointless, how about more booze?
I shall drink more tea and read a book
I read Ted Hughes letters late at night
I finished Sylvia’s journals, I was hooked
Brilliant, sad, pathetic, what outsight
I read her letters, how she worked too hard
Even as a tiny child she strove
How she longed for greatness and rewards
Starting on the tapestry, don’t go!
Harder still and harder,masochist
Will and nature cannot co-exist
Flowers open when the bees swing past
Birds build nests but never build too fast
We need to be in tune with our own world
Harmonise our breathing with the waves
See the little leaves as they uncurl
Forget advice, enjoy life till the grave
Any moment is epiphany
Jesus passes by but we are blind
Though now and then we catch a burning tree
When we are in rhythm with the Mind
Up the waves run on the risen shore
Bringing wild signs from the ocean floor
Grit and pearls and love we won’t ignore
Wise the whale and wise the open door
He was studying love and ethics
He was looking for a bride
He went to Greece in his best fleece
Is that suicide?
Then he studied English
But only from a book
He went in town in study brown
How do you think he looked?
Growing more impatient
He went for therapy
He went abroad still feeling flawed
Why can’t he just be?
I lent him all my novels
I lent him Dresden Green
He couldn’t read, his heart would bleed
What ghost has he seen?
I took him in my bedroom
I’m backward but so kind
When I was nude, he was so rude
I wished that he were blind
So in the end I left him
I can’t take no more
He seemed a catch, but I’m no match
So new locks on the door
I can’t come any further
With love we said goodbye
I wish I was beside you now,
But only angels fly
I remember Xmas
You wanted chocolate from the tree
You climbed up the piano
Then fell and hurt your knee
You ran away and left me
On the way to school
I was run down by a bicycle
Children are so cruel
We cycled up to Arnside
We saw the Langdale Pikes
We saw the sands of Morecambe Bay
How we loved our bikes
We didn’t go to Hazelslack
We didn’t have the time
We cherished the sweet memories
A holiday sublime
You asked me to come fishing
You hated being alone
I caught a fish and dropped it
Then we took the bus back home
Oh, brother dear, you lie alone
In the Covid Ward
I know you will be suffering
This hits me very hard
Even worse for your dear wife
She gave you children five
She’s cared for you for many years
Now she weeps from the outside
Nobody can see you now
Three months and a day
I once adored my brother
What else can I say?
How my heart sings 