My life is vile

This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.Airy, in an airy manner in an airy parkland walking,Others take him by the hand, lead him, do the talking.But the Form, the airy One, frowns an airy frown,What they say he knows must be, but he looks aloofly down,Looks aloofly at…

When you sat on the couchWith that tigerish crouchAnd told me you loved me no more.What I cannot remember is how I felt when you were unkindAll I know is, if you were unkind now I should not mind.Ah me, the power to feel exaggerated, angry and sadThe years have taken from me. Softly I…

So then they would beg him for death, and then he would say:Oh no, oh no, we are not yet friends enough.He meant they were not yet friends enough for him to give them death.So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die:Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough,And Virtue…

Precarious and Tenuous,Two Romans.My father was Hazardous,HazardousDear old man,Three Romans.There was my brother Spurious,Spurious Posthumous,Spurious was Spurious,Was four Romans.My husband was Perfidious,He was PerfidiousFive Romans.Surreptitious, our son,Was Surreptitious,He was six Romans.Our cat TediousStill lives,Count not TediousYet.My name is Finis,Finis, Finis,I am Finis,Six, five, four, three, two,One Roman,Finis.

But when daylight and the darkness of the office closed about herNot for this ah not for this her office colleagues came to doubt herIt was that look within her eyeWhy did it always seem to say goodbye?Joan her name was and at lunchtimeSolitary solitaryShe would go and watch the pictures In the National GalleryAll…

And the thoughts in my head are the thoughts of a bedWith a solitary view.But the eye of eternal consciousnessMust blink as a bat blinks brightOr ever the thoughts in my head be stilledOn the brink of eternal night.Oh feed to the golden fish his eggWhere he floats in his captive bowl,To the cat his…