Mars

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Poem of the week

By lavadis

Thu, 21 Nov 2019
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13 comments
 
 

'I am going to live on Mars’

she told me,
schoolgirl shoe-scuffing at
the planished patina
of our marriage 
 
‘I am to become a Cosmonaut describing a languid proprioception 
around earth
in a recalcitrant copper tube 
before being 
boomeranged 
out into the Lacrimose 
spacial void. 
 
Through the ice bullets
and hellstones
we will sail 
beast crammed 
cheek by jowl 
on a seven month
voyage 
to the red planet
 
On Mars we will reside 
in polyplastic huts 
at once bastard hot 
and bitch cold 
suffering one brutal punch after another 
choking and straining and 
grasping and starving 
on a glittering crimson amethyst  
amongst the stars’
 
‘Is this about me 
forgetting to empty 
the dishwasher’ 
 
I asked
 
‘No’ she replied 
 
‘Forgetting to empty
the bin then?’
 
‘Forgetting to empty the dog?’
 
 
‘No’ she said, 
juggling 
fractals of anger 
from side to side 
across her monobrow 
 
‘You had said you planned to 
move to Lyme Regis’ I said
 
‘Yes’
 
‘This is 33.9 million miles further’ 
she said, ‘I checked.’
 
‘When you are 
plunging through space 
what is to become of our love?’ I asked. 
 
‘This isn’t love’
she replied
 
‘it is the shadow cast
by the explosive collision   
of two disparate worlds’
 
‘Are you going to put that in the divorce petition?’  I asked 
 
‘I am leaving’ she said 
picking up a very small 
suitcase and opening the 
front door
 
‘That is a very small suitcase’
I said 
 
‘It is empty’ she replied 
 
‘If you had moved to
Lyme Regis 
It would have been 
easier 
for you to have 
come back to me,
to us’
I said 
looking down at the dog
for corroboration 
 
Before the door closed 
She turned 
and touched my hand 
a moment of 
inter dimensional transition 
frozen in 
space and time 
‘no it wouldn’t’
she said 
Certificate 15
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Comments

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

I remember you reading this the other day - a wonderful piece, thank you lavadis

ps: have you ever thought of doing a soundcloud (or similar) audio link when you post your poems? We have  our own account if you want to email a link for us to upload it there. You read very well and it would be nice for others to hear too

 

Submitted by lavadis on

Thank you very much indeed. I will try to do just that.

 

Submitted by fatboy74 on

Wonderful poem. 

 

Submitted by lavadis on

These little pieces of my heart - only a few a year, are so very personal to me, it is so wonderful to hear that they touch other people too

 

Submitted by fatboy74 on

Congratulations! This is our Facebook/Twitter pick for today. Please like and share if you enjoyed it as much as we have.

 

Submitted by drew_gummerson on

Brilliant. Love it. 

 

Submitted by lavadis on

That is really kind of you 

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Enjoyed this very much

 

Submitted by lavadis on

Hugely appreciated 

 

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

A beautiful piece of heartbreak.  Just love this.

Submitted by lavadis on

It was and is true heartbreak Sidney but thank you 

 

Submitted by airyfairy on

This is our Poem of the Week!  Congratulations! 

Submitted by onemorething on

Astonishingly wonderful. Have read several times since you posted it. :)