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La Bohemia Poetry Award - October 2001

Hippy Dad - 12/10/2001

Naked as a newborn, in Jesus sandals,
Lennonesque glasses and scruffy goatee,
in the thick of a pungent Moroccan fog.

Alternating his musical persuasions
between flute and bongos, courting
dizzied admiration from his eldest son

Paying only homage to lit tobacco
and a soaring plastic dish
in tepee and on festival fields.

Sermonizing the merits of proper mastication,
considering each chew scrupulously,
keeping tally before each swallow.

Seventies stupor is millennium amnesia,
his minds eye is as unfocused as it was then.
His nostalgia has distinctly blurred edges.

Now he is reformed and has found religion.
he pays witness to a God named Jehovah
reciting Bible passages learnt by heart.

It seems he is searching for something
that he couldn't find way back then,
or maybe, it is something that he lost.
 
© Nicholas Vosper 2001