Wednesday 13 February 2013

A MOBILE TELEPHONE MAST AT MIDNIGHT

Beyond the sludge of top field
a mobile telephone mast is
a mobile phone keypad 
lit up like a skyscraper
in a hurricane.

Could be an airport landing beacon
guiding planes into Robin Hood
without smashing into the M1.

The weather is darker than the forecast
and the mobile signal is down.
Beyond the sludge of top field
a man is climbing the mobile telephone mast
and he is a mobile phone.

Airplanes give you cancer.
Mobile phones give you cancer.
Laptops give you cancer.

At midnight, the mobile telephone mast
turned into cancer
and the villagers were pitchfork mad
that cancer was all over top field
like muck spreading.

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