First Millennial Poem - Andrew Barham

It's a male thing
Staring dead ahead
Into empty vistas
Peopled with the Past;
Inarticulate Poetics –

I've written poems on everything
From toilet rolls
To the margins of telephone directories,
Bumming a pen
From a Waitress
Or Waiter
Or Bartender
In every forgotten shit-hole
The world has never known –

Staring dead ahead
While looking back
At the far horizon;
I've been there
But never necessarily done that!

Every dreamer's dream
Spinning in the dreamer's head
Represents
A distinct horizon –
We guys
Just staring
Dead ahead …

Andrew Barham