May we still think of them
all of the time
and tell them cool things
like what good films
just came out on Prime
or that there’s 26 bridges
over the Tyne –
same number of albums
in Bowie’s lifetime
May we remember them
whilst we’re apart
and tell them daft things
like how you can’t hear
real music in the charts
that there’s nowt bitterer
than the human heart
or that shiver is the
collective noun for sharks
May we fear them
at the end of it all
and tell them sad things
like the 52 Blue whale
and it’s lonesome call
that your brother begged
Santa to make him tall
and how sunlight passes
across your bedroom wall
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