THE FOLLOWING POEM WAS SELECTED IN WINGWORD POETRY PRIZE 2023 LONGLIST.
A new day brings a new ending.
New ideas that need to be standing.
New vibes I need to be sending.
New money that needs spending.
New classes that I've been attending.
New girls who never give up pretending.
New money that needs lending.
New flights to crash before landing.
New emotions that need bending.
For the death that's still pending.
I no longer care for the work and it's pendency.
What is expected from me or the expectancy.
I'm playing guitar with tendons of my tendency.
To be old schooled with a hint of fancy.
The defining emptiness in vacancy.
I no longer need to accumulate currency.
I'm no longer part of schemes or agencies.
Or travel in the cars that look red n fancy.
Not to bathe at all or in the watery fragrances.
It never has distances or stances.
In the end it's only me and my vagrancy.