MARC CARVER - POEMS

All I can do is write I cannot fix shelves or work in factories. 
I am not that person anymore, so that is why I write and continue to write and hope people get something from what I write.

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                           JIMMY BURNS' PANTS
 
I found a pair of pants on top of my big locker
looked like they had been up there awhile,
a big tyre mark through the centre.
 
I knew they were Jimmy's even before I asked him
this was his old room
and people here did things like that
and they were proud of them too.
I liked Jimmy
he said he came from the gorballs
some said
the worst estate in europe.
 
When he used to laugh
he looked like he was about to piss himself.
Over the years
 I thought I would meet more Jimmy's
but I am still looking
Sad to say. 
 


                                     NO POEMS


No poems shall I write today
None of hope or new chances.
No poems shall I write today of love.
No poems shall I write today that speak of the freshness of the air
The newness of the day.
No poems shall I write today of laughter.
No poems shall I write today of beauty.
No poems shall I write today.
No poems shall I write today.
No poems.
none.
Not today.


                               CRAZY CRAZY


There are a pair of pants on top of the small roof next to my toilet. 
I know because I threw them there.
Sometimes people walk by
Talking about them
Like there were some tourist attraction.

Some people have flags of their country flying from their roofs.
I have a flag of underpants from the country of crazy crazy
And it is the only country for me.


             THE WORST POET IN THE WORLD


Have you heard about the worst poet in the world
He tells people to F off on stage.
Goes to the mic drunk.
Makes fun of people.
turns up late or not at all.
if you haven't seen him
I have to confess.
He
Is 
Me.
 
 
 
                        SHAME SHAME SHAME
 
As ride of the valkyres came on
I had an urge to leap from my chair
put my feet on the shoulders of the boy in front
and fly up into the air.
 
Push up around the dome of the royal albert hall
circling everybody as I soared above like a big bald eagle
and just for a second I was sure I could do it
 
but I didn't quite believe enough
what a shame.