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Our World by Paul Jenkins

Tue, 27/04/2010 - 20:30 — Paul Jenkins
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Our World Copyright © Paul Jenkins 1995

(The poem is laid out on a motorway. You are driving from bottom left going North from the inside lane then returning on the right carriageway in the outside lane).

track   on   switch      
Scalextric   drive   the      
laned   to   threw      
multi-   us   obviously      
this   possessed   Someone      
to   Whatever          
ovation       area?      
standing   slot.   no-go      
a   allotted   this      
    their          
standstill   in   conformity      
a       dull      
to   out   this      
brought   it   to      
    sit   to      
subscribed   to   leading      
over-   prescribed          
and              
patronised   antropoid          
    encapsulated          
Motorway   each   freeway      
M25   with   this      
Orbital       down      
London              
The              
of              
lanes              
Six              
A   hers   One
dozen   where   of
or   humanity   the
so   fears   horses
unbridled   to   whinnies
horses   tread.   from
        the
look   A   field
on   deserted    
from   viaduct   its
a   ahead   voice
grassy       lost
knoll   seductively   on
    crosses   closed
at   the   windows
the   road   and
bemused       tunnel
who   straddling   vision
squat   each    
and   of   on
exhale   the   the
below   six   apathy
    blocked   and
    arteries   indifference
         
        contaminating
        Our
        World.
Read Where: 
Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
Read When: 
Tue, 27/04/2010
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