Poem
Jack Underwood
You Are Definitely Coming, So Why Not Now?
You Are Definitely Coming, So Why Not Now?
You Are Definitely Coming, So Why Not Now?
Life is a frozen lamb: I’m waiting.I have turned off the lights and been dramatic, opening doors.
Take any form you like.
Why not come thumping great chunks off us,
or cut our necks like bike locks,
or creep into our bodies like a smell in the fridge
or surprise our throats like a tune from the morning radio
that we’ll notice we’re singing the way you notice
a police car pulling up the drive?
I don’t care how. The drains are gurgling,
the sky is a reservoir of wrong-headed questions. And eyes
that I love are losing their tournament
© 2015, Jack Underwood
From: Happiness
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
From: Happiness
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
Jack Underwood
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1984)
Jack Underwood is a regular participant in the London poetry community, and lectures in English and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, as well as working as a tutor for The Poetry School. As a reviewer, he has contributed regularly to Poetry London and The Poetry Review, and he was a founding editor of the anthology series Stop/Sharpening/Your/Knives. He was chosen as one of the first four...
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You Are Definitely Coming, So Why Not Now?
Life is a frozen lamb: I’m waiting.I have turned off the lights and been dramatic, opening doors.
Take any form you like.
Why not come thumping great chunks off us,
or cut our necks like bike locks,
or creep into our bodies like a smell in the fridge
or surprise our throats like a tune from the morning radio
that we’ll notice we’re singing the way you notice
a police car pulling up the drive?
I don’t care how. The drains are gurgling,
the sky is a reservoir of wrong-headed questions. And eyes
that I love are losing their tournament
From: Happiness
You Are Definitely Coming, So Why Not Now?
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