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9173, 1803, 0094
by John Doyle
9173 was my ID code for work,
instead of
typing in my name, I'd type in this number,
get paid,
be this unrustable machine.
Patrick
McGoohan would've been so proud.
1803 was
the alarm code for some shithole I lived in,
it was
south of the city,
junkies,
arguments,
takeaway
smells upstairs.
People told
me romantic tales of the southside of the city,
women were
called "Penelope" there,
smelled
like Milan,
men drove
Porsches, wore white collars and yellow cuffs.
From my
window I saw a guy drive past—
looked just
like King Carlos of Spain.
Fancy that.
0094 is
some random number
I just
wrote down.
It could
also be a number someone's throat
gets
slashed for
in 4-minutes
time.
The clock
is ticking—
is it you,
do you even
have time to read
this next
poem?
Postfontaine
by John Doyle
Oregon,
Saturday May 31, 1975
A casket is
immediate on this curve,
stone-chipped
finish,
distinct
from gold—
a quartet
of spinning wheels
mark a
blood-red descent towards town;
night is
mysterious and heavy,
short of
breath; its stopwatch
beats to a
rhythm of worn-out eyes,
signals
getting
slower and
slower—
Montreal
is,
Montreal
was,
Montreal
will never
be.
The wheels
stop spinning, eyes go out—no action replays
Conclusions i.m.
Kevin Moran (1930 - 2020) by John Doyle
A few coffee mugs cease clinking, stains curdle their yearly
snowfall— ABBA rehearsing supper's
encore since 1978, Derby County
- League Champions 1974/1975—
game abandoned due to deaths, taxes—the usual. Cats reason with me, a few hardened sausages land their way— life being its hard callow-self, hands like
raisins, coffee-stained,
elderly mugs too, in mourning— seeping glory; Six
bottles of stout a glassy ghoulish-brown will keep his head above water, until my return—
Derby County
and ABBA mugs, starving cats who must
reason with me— things he
doesn't remember enough to
forget
John Doyle is from County Kildare in Ireland. He returned to writing poetry in
February 2015 after a gap of nearly 7 years. Since then, he's had 6 collections released,
including Leaving Henderson County, in 2020. He is writing his first novel at present and
works as a journalist.
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