29th January 2026

 

Blink camera

so much of a deterrent

it got nicked

© Rachel Green January 2026

Stubb's Road, 1990

Evening sunshine in communal living room

a tenant in an upstairs rented flat

bought for pennies by a slumlord blue tycoon

but drier than the one though rented last.

The furniture thou use is most thine own 

from years of student living in the town

and sharing with a man who carveth stone

and an Irish lad who talks often of home.

In this golden hour thou is harkening a piece

an opera by the famous Philip Glass

which lulls thy troubled thought into release

and brings to thee serenity of mass.

  Now Glass cancels performing in the former Kennedy Hall

  while the president doth name himself the Greatest King of All.

© Rachel Green January 2026