Better Sense

Mate, apart from th’ fact you’re the only bloke 

who can put that wiz into what fealty sez is all 

that there is you’re still th’ reality wearing your 

name - and Oliver, whether th’ particular fame 

plays a didgeridoo - or you see music making 

you someone who hears it all without wearing 

engraved epithets barefoot o’ families’ history; 

it’s th’ only purview of whom you’d been born  

& likened to - if th’ choice was to be someone 

other than whom you are acquainted with; so 

join th’ Clan m’ man, we’re better victims and 

less obsessed than people claiming they only 

understand ‘whatever dispossess awareness’ 

of whose view really makes the better sense 

© 1 December 2017,  I. D. Carswell 

For Oliver on his 7th birthday