I can’t read

How’s your dissertation going?

Oh I’m just about copying.

I heard you were sitting  exams.

I’m very good  at thevsitting.. it’s the thinking that bothers me

Why did you go to university?

I couldn’t read the signposts

Why did you do a higher degree? 

It was either that or getting a job

Why did you do PPE You make it sound like doing time

You can read the time but  can you read PPE

That’s why they have tutors so they can read it out to the undergraduates

But surely they must be able to read because if they couldn’t read they wouldn’t be able to do examinations.

Well they have oral examinations for the M Math.

Wouldn’t you have to write on the blackboard?

I didn’t see a black board.

You ought to have your eyes tested. At the very minimum.

Where is the Very Minimum?

This is Oxford. Home of Lewis Carroll

Oh I wondered where I was.

Did you not see the name on the platform with the station when you got off the train?

I can’t read

It’s getting vicious going round in these circles.

Then you need to change your circles.

I  will have ellipses instead

Stop showing off your Greek

I thought he was Italian.

Sunset

The sunset is pale
Coral with grey finger marks~
No bird sang today

The leaves wait like mouths
Now they are shutting their lips
They don’t get night feeds

All is calm and still
The moon is singing Mahler
Dead babies whisper.

Lullaby,the heart
Enfold all infants’ pathos
Dies with them daily

Forget not at night
Those for whom the sun is dead
They are stiff like dolls