Alan Catlin- Two Poems

Abominable Snowmen

Only abominable

snowmen

walk here

this night

stamping

their frozen

heavy booted

feet as they

come

rubbing their

cold reddened

hands

breathing

the still

dead air

No one ever

sees their

double X'd

eyes

Not even

the barman

                                                Star Wars

                                                I said I

                                                knew a guy

                                                one who

                                                thought he

                                                was from Mars

                                                Come to think

                                                of it he was

                                                just about

                                                your size and

                                                he liked them

                                                draught beers

                                                just like you

                                                do too   You

                                                know this guy

                                                used to come

                                                in here every

                                                afternoon about

                                                4 o'clock with

                                                some crazy wild

                                                lines about

                                                extra terrestrial

                                                life  I don't

                                                suppose I'm

                                                getting through

                                                to you am I?

                                                I wasn't

                                                He was from

                                                somewhere else

                                                now and all

                                                that I was

                                                saying was long

                                                ago and far away