RIMBAUD IN CUMBERLAND

 

O Louise what have I done to your saying!?

I see there have been people here before me!

Nevertheless, I hope the following

words are still mine own:

 

Blessed may be the end at last,

under the sea,

below the soul,

in the upside-down

Oceans above us

 

(all that heaven sends is rain).

 

And though my dad did I don’t believe in heaven.

Heaven is a pile of statistics no-one will ever see.

And once I fell asleep

under a tree

in London town.