
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2022/12/how-get-on-with-political-opponents
In the dark street with its glaring lights
Deserted pavements, cars that multiply
I see two of everything in sight
Twenty dogs two owls that fly by night
Two black cats with amber eyes run by
In the dark street with its glaring lights
As I walk I sing to cats’ delight
I sing Joan of Arc,I wonder why
I see two of everything in sight
The song takes seven minutes,or it might
If I sang like Leonard , if I sighed
In the dark street with its glaring lights
No-one can detect my wandering sight
Yet now and then I wail or emit cries
I see more than you do with insight
These little deaths mount up as our time flies
In the end we step with shuttered eyes
In the dark street with its errant lights
I see two of everything in sig
What to you may be a worthless weed
Bears its little flowers to make its seeds
Thus it spreads itself as Love requires
Humble speedwell,hear of our desires.
In the pavements cracks were home to grass
The sidestep slabs were broken like thick glass
When deep frost came, rain made frozen pools
I trod in them as I tore up to school
The crackling ice, the mist dropped on the park
Our ginger cat, the trees, the dog that barked
A woman in the kitchen making tea
The oven by the fire, the big door key
Little signs spark tender memories
The future fiction, past a lost abyss