‘The Poet’ (a find from the archives) was composed from lines written on the tube after reading the freebie magazine The Short List:
you’ll need to use me again tomorrow
because our words are all
pre-used
but if you set me down
in words and lines then published
me I’m already seen and
done cutting edge
A lot of thinking to go beyond hackneyed –
Push to keep us running new –
The final, pruned poem may be read here. It is also one of the twenty-five poems selected for my second book, Emily’s Poems for Modern Boys (2013).
Beaded Quill 