Would this man

from the Levant,

of religious conviction

with political leanings

'despised and rejected'

be allowed through the gates of today's America?

Stone wall ed - this is just a test

Sorry to be a pest, this is just a test

My last post was blocked

Was this because of the lyre in my name?

Was it that my feminist forgot her top?

Was it that my holiday lines were too black?

That I exposed Icarus?

I'm sorry if my lamentations seemed mad instead of sad

If I seem too wild when really I'm quite mild

That instead of wit I seemed too much of a twit

I only mean to mend, not to offend

To be immersive not subversive

So to God of the net,

Please don't block me when I send

Just to me unfriend

And spacebook might let me back in in the end...

Dear Andrew,

There was a time when I thought

St Joseph's church was the original temple

When you flew to the sun we were the first to hear about it

When you fell, we fell with you

"Our hopes have gone and we miss them"

We miss you too.

Vale Andrew, 20 February 1959 - 12 May 2015