Poem
Chris McCabe
BUTTERCUP
BUTTERCUP
BUTTERCUP
I put a buttercup under my chin & yellow vans go past –some say RENEW GLASS, others SASH WINDOWS.
USB cables & leads run through my copy of Sophocles –
Oedipus : this is a sign, the pact seals my fate.
After the hospital we brought him back for the first time
– shook up in the harsh responsible ache of love –
we chose him a book to show what he meant to us :
it was too dark to see we were reading Kidnapped by RLS,
the lamp burned too bright to read. His escape came when
we went to the sea to see what was hilarious, each wave
crashed its comedy plates between my toes as he was thrown
across my shoulders. At last he knew that two thirds of the world
was what he thought each time he wet himself
© 2008, Chris McCabe
Publisher: First published on PIW,
Publisher: First published on PIW,
Chris McCabe
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1977)
Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977, grew up there and studied for a degree in Literary Studies at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston. He moved to London when he was twenty-four, and now works as a Joint Librarian at the Poetry Library on the South Bank. He has published poems in a number of places including Poetry Salzburg Review, Shearsman, Magma and Poetry Review. His f...
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BUTTERCUP
I put a buttercup under my chin & yellow vans go past –some say RENEW GLASS, others SASH WINDOWS.
USB cables & leads run through my copy of Sophocles –
Oedipus : this is a sign, the pact seals my fate.
After the hospital we brought him back for the first time
– shook up in the harsh responsible ache of love –
we chose him a book to show what he meant to us :
it was too dark to see we were reading Kidnapped by RLS,
the lamp burned too bright to read. His escape came when
we went to the sea to see what was hilarious, each wave
crashed its comedy plates between my toes as he was thrown
across my shoulders. At last he knew that two thirds of the world
was what he thought each time he wet himself
BUTTERCUP
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