Poem from Jon McFarlow
3 times sectioned
by Jon McFarlow
Mobile
In the future
folk sent back into the past
have ended up in Bedlam.
As a means of communication
they took mobile phones back
in time with them.
The locals thought them bananas
and had them sectioned.
Thinker
If one of the walls in your lounge
exploded
& a friend you hadn’t seen in months
appeared from the rubble & smoke
with a mobile phone in one hand
& a lump of coal in the other
screaming
I’ve come from the future, no time for questions
You have to come with me
Would you go?
Mobile
In the future
folk sent back into the past
have ended up in Bedlam.
At stool so long her skin grew around the seat
As a means of communication
they took mobile phones back
in time with them.
A decade of nuptials ended when he dissed The Boss
The locals thought them bananas
and had them sectioned.
Jon McFarlow: born in 1980.
Favourite memory: Finding a cat in a hat. No, really!
Motto is: "Mad is bad. Bad is good"
(from Kingdom Come by J G Ballard)
by Jon McFarlow
Mobile
In the future
folk sent back into the past
have ended up in Bedlam.
As a means of communication
they took mobile phones back
in time with them.
The locals thought them bananas
and had them sectioned.
Thinker
If one of the walls in your lounge
exploded
& a friend you hadn’t seen in months
appeared from the rubble & smoke
with a mobile phone in one hand
& a lump of coal in the other
screaming
I’ve come from the future, no time for questions
You have to come with me
Would you go?
Mobile
In the future
folk sent back into the past
have ended up in Bedlam.
At stool so long her skin grew around the seat
As a means of communication
they took mobile phones back
in time with them.
A decade of nuptials ended when he dissed The Boss
The locals thought them bananas
and had them sectioned.
Jon McFarlow: born in 1980.
Favourite memory: Finding a cat in a hat. No, really!
Motto is: "Mad is bad. Bad is good"
(from Kingdom Come by J G Ballard)
posted by John Stiles at 9:58 am
2 Comments:
Hey John, good to see Jon here.
Hey Jon, nice poem.
Did you really?
Did you really find?
Did you really find a cat in a hat though?
And if you went back in time with your mobile phone how would you transmit from one to t'other?
There would be no transmission microwave tower thingys back then!!
I like it though.
I left a comment, it disappeared. I said like this:
Is this called science fiction poetry or something like that? I don't know much about poetry but I know what I like. Isn't JG Ballard a science fiction writer? I think it's good. I mean, I got a mobile phone...
Now I bet my first comment appears and I look like a ...
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