In the acid
-bath of
any brain
that thinks
enough
reality
dissolves.
What’s left
but something
known as
nothingness
plastered
over to
conceal it,
then painted
on to look
as real as
a rock or tree
revolving
round a
magic star.
• Biography: Richard Livermore was born in Sussex in 1944. He went to various boarding-schools and left at 15. He joined the Army, but was discharged 6 months later. He went from job to job and in 1974 to Newbattle Abbey College in Scotland. He has lived in Scotland ever since, except for 5 years in Spain. He has had numerous poems published in magazine and webzines in Britain and the USA, plus books by Lothlorien, Diehard and Chanticleer Press. He is presently retired.
In Between Hangovers 