Friday, 12 October 2012

This Modern Love

(Disclaimer: this is about being at a gig.)

There's a small, round bruise,
on my arm, below my wrist.
Liver-red on ivory.
Like a lover's kiss.

Small relic of a mystery blow
Inflicted by some flailing limb.
Bone on bone. Blood
blooms under skin.

The lights flash blue and black;
I'm crashing, smashing, into you.
This raucous, clumsy, modern love
has left me black and blue.




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