Poetry: Louis Kasatkin

By Louis Kasatkin

Louis is editorial administrator at www.DestinyPoets.co.uk and founder of Destiny Poets and in his spare time is a civic, community, political activist, blogger and general nuisance to the status quo!
 Louis Kasatkin

Parkinson's

broken words,
lying empty,
scattered,
some of the words are...,
parts of syntax...... missing,
if simply misplaced,
we can't find.......,
what should...... be......,
familiar patterns have......,
grown....... fuzzy....... edges,
around them........... ...... those,
words....... broken......,
some of the........ are.....,
broken.. broken............. broken,
......... are ............ ......... words,
words....... are......... lying.

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The Girl with the Needle In Her Arm

The Girl crouches
by the railings at the
Tube station entrance,
her knees together
mucus running down her chin,
watery eyes
sticky pale skin,
vomit stained hair
hanging down in two
big tangles over her forehead;
The Girl massages her calf and thigh,
her right leg feels bloodless and numb,
her mascara streaked face a mask
where tears were forced out as she spewed;
Above her rainbows strobe across
the tourist postcard skyline,
proclaiming the nomenclature
of aspirational desires,
Apple, Cartier, Chanel, Mercedes-Benz;
The space around the Tube Station
entrance railings is opaque,
no - one sees
no - one wants to see
the Girl's life exchanged
for an emptiness of nights;
Nights illuminated by gleaming giant screens
all evangelising how,

the Financial Times stock market Index
has just ended the day,
higher.

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