A pastiche of the wonderfully beautiful poem, 'Having a Coke with You' by Frank O'Hara. I am attempting to explore the Unheimlich feeling of Hara's philosophy of poetry being about a conversation between two people. Consequently, this poem disrupts the conversation into that of a monologue of a suicidal speaker. Displaying that of ego-death or the dissolution of self. However, not in the Freudian/Jungian sense, instead a late-capitalist/postmodern. Thus, attempting to ascribe a poetic connection between Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism concept and the current mental health crisis.
Category: poetry
the road from Emmaus to Spring’s gate:
A poem written whilst in the Marsden moors near the location known as Easter Gate.
silence
A narrative poem which details the story if our star-crossed lovers survived and were not quite that star-crossed.


