Skip Martyrdom (Like St John)
Faithful Johannes
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You know you're getting old When there's trees younger than you But taller than your house I mean deciduous not evergreen I was a clever teen but lazy Now the brain's fogged and hazy Fingernails grow at two millimetres a month That's three full sets a year A planet scattered with clippings That might not decompose for millennia It's a myth that nails grow on corpses Neither does hair It's a morbid trick played by a shrinking skin A fallen fortress Final convulsions then zinc, iron and glucose stop pulsing Through veins, valves and ventricles Capillaries softly stilled The heart's just a muscle Despite what they've told us In hundreds of languages On screens and pages But I feel love in the forearms And the aches of my legs Long drive South The A1 a swamp of grief and sadness Impossible Soul played over and over Emptying houses Who decides what's junk The smell of metal on grayed fingers Romantic letters in a trunk Chuck moldy groceries Pick out the best crockery Read a letter from the notary Sat in the rockery Throw a penny in a well that's only decorative Just an inch deep Wishes rejected Leave the coin in the lawn Should I be more forlorn? Have simpler dreams? A log cabin by some water? Skip martydom like St John Do nothing fancy Make no one a fiance The heart's just a muscle Despite what they've told us In hundreds of languages On screens and pages But I feel love in the back of my neck The arch of my feet and behind these tired eyelids
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