Immortality
Peeling my breakfast banana,
dicing it, sprinkling muesli on it,
I think of old Bernard Levin,
Times columnist, insisting how
those fibres between peel and banana
he always removed - they were poisonous.
So celebrated in his time,
Levin the columnist, how gone now!
oblivion! I bring him back,
each morning, discarding those strips,
naming to myself his name,
bestowing on it continued life!
Reader, are you with me? I feel myself
quietly fading. Kindly commit me
so to memory – Max is my name.
You could send me your name to say
over quietly at breakfast -
rehearsing immortality.
Ah, such a short term measure!
as if that would do either of us
the merest bit of good.
Doncaster, Vic
Wednesday 7 October 2009
Max Richards
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