RANDOM ACCESS CO-IMAGINATION

 

Simon says The River Goyt

might become the Styx in Heaven.

Will says something about who you

think of touching yourself in the shower.

 

I say maybe all I need is a length,

need is a length of metal chain.

Dave says it’s rude to repeat

the shift of feet down the corridor.

 

Raymond says let’s have one more

crumble from dad’s pollen.

Jesus sits at the right hand

of the Lord God our Father.

 

Paul asks wear an emotional

condom before you f**k my mind, man.

Mother says imagination is a

muscle and language a creature.

 

Hal says I know you spoke

against September 11th in 2000.

Mark knows that I said a clock

is only as fast as a cheetah.

 

Andy says “I know the chords

to this tune by Bob Dylan.”

Dad said Dylan was religion,

to listen to on Sunday when younger.

 

Mandy says the main attraction

of drug-taking is the connections

you make with other people -

but I for one will just have butter.

 

Bex says I'm right it's impossible

to remember a new yellow line.

Mother says I must remember

when I go out to shut the door.

 

Dexter says I was right that

my dad used to smuggle pollen

and that the art smuggling story

was just an elaborate cover.

 

Mark says something like there

is no virtue beyond fashion -

or was it no vice I cannot

quite remember anymore.