eight short not poems
i know you are smiling
in the dark of night
of course i do
how could i not
dear nice you
it is ok to be an old man
and sit in this tree
two teenagers on e-bikes
laughing
wave at me
a text message from my child
who is nearly middle aged
i stop everything
and smiling
look at my phone
the loud straight couple blurt
‘we hate homophobia’
later i hear her say
‘we need a hetero Pride march
it shouldn’t just be for gays’
we spent most of the time
at the animal show
scratching a sheep’s head
each time we stopped
he nudged us hard
if i die from a heart attack
tonight or tomorrow
at least it wasn’t today
i suppose that’s something
life changed three years ago
it’s ok to do the exact same walk
every day and the ones to come
yesterday i altered it
but i won’t tomorrow
no fucking way
i have three ex-partners
still alive living their lives
and a thousand others in between
i learnt plenty
from that lot
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Stephen House has won many awards and nominations as a poet, playwright, and actor. He’s been commissioned often, with 20 plays produced, and many published by Australian Plays Transform. He’s received international literature residencies from The Australia Council for the Arts to Canada and Ireland, and an Asialink literature residency to India. He’s had two chapbooks published by ICOE Press Australia: ‘real and unreal’ poetry and ‘The Ajoona Guest House’ monologue. His poetry is published often. He has performed his acclaimed monologues widely. He had a play run in Spain for 4 years.
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