Thinking of Him, by Shadwell Smith

Thinking of Him, by Roy Lichtenstein (America). 1963.

Thinking of Him

This was Hollywood hung in primary colours.
Daddy’s little princess turned out with the trash
by a fast young man who could wear a suit
and shoot the breeze from the wheel of a Pontiac Bonneville.
Your baby doesn’t love you anymore.
 
Candy waits for Brad to call, her thoughts full
of his blue serge suit and player’s jaw.
A cheated sweetheart not quite pretty or complete;
Her yellow hair throws curves and she cries silver.
You won’t be seeing rainbows anymore.
 
A thin faced New Yorker stands in front of her
neurosis stretched across his canvas sheet;
and Roy declares in hard black lines
a scene with dots that replicate a moment –
It’s over.
It’s over.
It’s over.

Shadwell Smith
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This poem was previously published in London Grip New Poetry.

Shadwell is a school teacher who lives in Dunstable, England. He has entertained spoken word audiences across London and the home counties for many years. His poems have also appeared in a number of print magazines and e-zines, such as Butcher’s Dog, Prole, Ink Sweat & Tears and London Grip.