2011/03/25 Gun Fire Facts Poem by Margaret Alice

Described Alice lost in a cauchemardesque French
class in which politics was the only topic of study
listening to a French radio programme and Alice
slipping down lower in her chair

Enormous pen poised to write in a gigantesque
notebook to show willingness to compensate for
lack of intelligence - Alice never discerns details
when only listening, she hears the song

The rhythm, the beat, the rise and fall, tone and
timbre of speakers’ voices, not the content, her
brain cannot comprehend the value of listening
to irrelevant details of international adventures

In which she cannot partake, stories that do not
change the settings in her brain, she loves things
that make her swoon by their lyrical beauty or
amazing absurdity and surrealism

Which reminds of relativism and quantum physics
and the illusionary quality of inter-subjective reality
NOT politics seen as a succession of machine-gun
fire facts peppering her mind until

She slides down in her chair…