The Thousand Mile Stretch
Come on now
Give it to me
30, 50, 80!
Give it to me
Rumbling through
No stops
The welling verve
in the chest
The loud exclamations
On hot tarmac roads
Rocketing down
No patience
My rewinded years
are wasted
And you wasted so well
A dozen lefts and
three U-turns
Brought you nowhere
Without speed limits
Ticket men
or handbrakes
When you believed me
cos I saw it
And there was no time
except for what was wasted
Living off petrol fumes
Fried eggs on the bonnet
When I could pronounce
these words
Projectiling straight
Like snake vomit
You said:
Give it to me for all I got
For what I am and what Iām not
Cos the buck stops with me
And I have a reason to live
Ameer Azad is our current Poet-in-Residence. Every now and then we find a voice that sings (or screams) to us. Those voices that show us something new - whether beautiful or repulsive - voices from out there that somehow resonate deeply. Voices we just 'get'. When that happens we graciously ask that they join us for a time. To live and scream along with us.
You can learn more about Ameer, his work and voice in his fantastic interview here.
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