The Twins Poem

Stepney, London, E1, November 1996

From the beginning I was with someone

Together we explored the marshmallow wall

And bobbed about in the great expanse

Like two tethered tadpoles

Learning and yearning to live.

As the hours passed by

So the molecules multiplied

And soon you and I were

Developing limbs and things.

But then you, you left me one day.

One day we were hanging around together,

Dangling on our foodpipes

And squabbling for space

And the next, you were gone.

And it was just me.

Me and the great expanse

And the marshmallow walls

And not you, anymore.