Invisible Blue Plaques(For Janice) Poem by Dónall Dempsey

Someone or other
lived & died here.

Some other someone
wrote their most

famous work
there.

Every so often
a blue plaque informs us

as we journey
through town

(rain falling down)

of Blah Blah
who blah’d & blah’d here

or was
blah’d there

... who cares?

In my mind
I erect invisible
blue plaques

to commemorate
us.

Here: we kissed
(did we not?)
...a mere minute ago.

Here: we turned
& laughed

on the corner of this everyday
road.

Here: we laughed
& hugged

on a pedestrian crossing

(a pedestrian
crossing)

whistling at our
ardour

a taxi honking
at our armour.

All over London
our invisible
blue plaques

commemorate
us

&
that

we once
passed this way

so deeply
in love.