How can I think of nothing
just let time pass me by
survive without a passion
voyage with unseeing eyes
...
Have you ever seen how blue the sky is?
when you look straight up
from a mountain top
on a cloudless summers day
...
Weary is my head tonight
my body feels like lead
as I sink back into the chair
and stare up to the crying beams
...
You gave me a cactus at Christmastime
Ferocactus Glaucens
You told me quite sincerely it was part of you
it's true!
...
Tim Watson is an artist, illustrator and architect living and working in Italy)
Switch Me Off
How can I think of nothing
just let time pass me by
survive without a passion
voyage with unseeing eyes
Content incomprehension
quell my desire to know
avoid all new invention
and join the common flow
Could I respinge creation
haste my run down to walk
make incessant conversation
with no meaning in my talk
Cannot science make incision
my brain to circumvent
labotomise my vision
and leave me finally content
(in a rainstorm, Abruzzo,28 August 98)