Two prose poems 7 Jan Posted on January 7, 2019January 7, 2019Author steel city scribe 2 Brecht is powerful but it’s Michael Rosen who captures our zeitgeist.
More Michael Rosen! A family arrived and said they had papers to prove that his house was theirs. No, no, said the man, my people have always lived here, my father, grandfather …. and look, the garden, my great-grandfather planted that. No, no, said the family, look at the documents. There was a stack of them. Where do I start? said the man. No need to read the beginning, they said, turn to the page marked ‘Promised Land’. Are they legal? he said, who wrote them? God, they said, God wrote them, look – Here come His tanks. Reply
More Michael Rosen!
A family arrived and said they had papers
to prove that his house was theirs.
No, no, said the man, my people have always lived here,
my father, grandfather …. and look, the garden,
my great-grandfather planted that.
No, no, said the family, look at the documents.
There was a stack of them.
Where do I start? said the man.
No need to read the beginning, they said,
turn to the page marked ‘Promised Land’.
Are they legal? he said, who wrote them?
God, they said, God wrote them, look –
Here come His tanks.
Superb! I really must read more of this man. Thanks Alan.