I
have never worn
a watch,
heard up close
the tic
between
the tock,
or marvelled
at the second hand news
as I
don’t keep Time,
I
have never believed
in caging any
type
of wild, feral or emotionally superior creature
when they should
roam free.
Ian D. Hall 2016
Home…
I tramp the streets of my youth,
where I first kissed many a girl
who flirted with me and their school uniforms
leading the way to starched Nurses apparel
and the women in the beguiling
dazzling dress who I wished for nothing more
to be in attendance of…
I tramp the streets where teenage mood
swings caught me off guard, where the Garth
became my back garden, where an altercation,
one-sided and full of badly installed testosterone,
the first of two beatings I took, left me nearly