Transference



Your primal scene: 
checkerboards, and a grey wheel;
lost for good

You are so transparent.
Every 6.30 
you rummage through your available material,
trying to sort it out.

Repressed comedies and
dramas keep coming back
to haunt you

And there are these dreams:
all this violence, and 
sex that never quite happens.

Are you there?
In this procession of symbols
does it make any sense
to talk about you?
Aren�t you just a lens
which registers images?

Anyway, why project it onto me;
is it my fault your head 
is filled with such rubbish?

*sigh*

I�m sorry.
I know it�s not easy;

they make you stay up later every night
when what you really want
is to be switched off
forever.


1997, Tim Gadd