Other Worlds (Goodbye Brian Burford)

RIP Tea Cozy Pete;

I was always the
one spilling out the pub drunk
early doors so me and he could speak
I knew his name he knew mine
id watch his smiling eyes shine
philosophising in the street
memory failed to remind me. strange. oh the shame in forgetting

searching the stars,

trying to find out where the answers are,

when they were in your back yard all along.

What you looking for other worlds for when

u aint dealt with the one ur on?

34 years for me
on this old earth
and each
one of these
hed roamed the streets
only now that he’s
hung up his tea cozy
do I hear the storms and feel the freeze

and I retreat
in humility
with his words ringing.