PHOTOCOPY

Try to outrun the sun.

Stand down in the sand with a beer and sunburn.

Cold night comes around

white spots signal dusk

and the meeting is over.

They're gone without goodbyes

in a photo you didn't bother to print

smelt distant down damp corridors

and coffee on the front step.

Sandalled feet remember when your bike got nicked

and your green coat bloomed Christmas Tree in December

without the central heating

or a fully functioning shower

evenings accented with strangers

strung from hedgerows, housing estates, shoulders and squinting eyes

surmise - a time, some time,

that time, that house

each other time a photocopy of the first

smaller

dimmer

shorter and without nostalgia

real without the memory-fuzz in between

something something done at art school

something in the light of sunset