Tuesday, March 5, 2019

John Doyle writes


Man In The City 
For a man they never found

He smiles in supermarket aisles,
his face drags along in post mortems soon after -
on faded cctv;

he walks a street that slips and slides from Sundays,
the listless leaves clamped on sports car windows,
soul music lost and found - on nearby antennas;

they'll find his face someday,
pressed on beds of murder, an emptied 50 cent novel,
a half full whiskey bottle -

and the lights switched off in shopping centres,
feet muffled
in a dying swoosh of listless-leaves.

They watch his face press a cctv screen -
screaming, laughing;
the city's finest whipping boy - the blackness burning detectives' marriages to a point of no return
Image result for supermarket tabloids paintings
Risky Business --  Shepard Fairey

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