Tony Chapman-Art Music Writing

“Ahem”…

Take this teleprompter
from my eyesight and from my thoughts.

Let my eyesight and my thoughts
Roam freely, from galaxy to galaxy

along the side-car promenade,
where fish fly
alongside vegetarian Seagulls.

I am a happy man
doing the only job I know
along side the other jobs I know, 
with a teleprompter
in front of my eyes like VR glasses.

If  you catch me on a happy day
I will answer all your questions
with a songbird’s voice that roars
like a giant ocean wave.

There is a stringent, stagnant, isolated pattern
on the face of the Grandfsther clock at the end of the hall, (with a robin, hand painted, on its face), in the farm called “Fernlea”, which formed me.

Sometimes, when the moon is full
and the world is asleep
I stand
on the end of Southend-on-Sea pier
and howl at that moon

and the clouds of that solid ocean
locate themselves
on the other end
of the shock wave.of time.

There, is where we join the Mad hatter, the March Hare, the Door Mouse
and Alice,

at their tea table.

End.