Naysayer 190722
About you: the air,
cold as a blunt refusal.
It’s easy to see your firmness
sitting at the head of the table
gripping on for dear life
(yet again)
you’d think it was them
who had all the power
coming here to take your job.
No matter practicalities,
conditions too barbaric to imagine,
the tide has taken change with it, you say.
And it will bring it back, we reply.
That’s when your fist (bare-knuckled) bangs the table
and you reassert the ‘I refuse to allow them’ division
Your qualification (staunch covers it) intact
with the isms (all of them) lining up
as if knowledge and presentiment
aren’t connected
both a hollow burning
like a bridge lit in celebration
of something nobody
can account for.
finn / friel / gene
Naysayer 190722
About you: the air,
cold as a blunt refusal.
It’s easy to see your firmness
sitting at the head of the table
gripping on for dear life
(yet again)
you’d think it was them
who had all the power
coming here to take your job.
No matter practicalities,
conditions too barbaric to imagine,
the tide has taken change with it, you say.
And it will bring it back, we reply.
That’s when your fist (bare-knuckled) bangs the table
and you reassert the ‘I refuse to allow them’ division
Your qualification (staunch covers it) intact
with the isms (all of them) lining up
as if knowledge and presentiment
aren’t connected
both a hollow burning
like a bridge lit in celebration
of something nobody
can account for.
finn / friel / gene