PERSPECTIVE • by Jonathan Pinnock

We’re grown adults,

aren’t we? Grown up enough

to watch the rolling news

and learn of earthquakes,

tsunamis and revolutions,

 

grown up enough

not to behave like some

six-year-old weeping

over the shoebox burial

of her hamster –

 

Stop all the

bright pink plastic

My Little Pony

alarm clocks!

 

– and yet we are

inconsolable

after putting down

the phone. Nothing

will ever be the same:

we are diminished.

 

The microchip

does not lie: the cat

they brought in

was ours.

 

Jonathan Pinnock has had quite a lot of stuff published here and there and has even won a prize or two. His novel, “Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens” was published by Proxima Books in either the Autumn or the Fall of 2011, depending on your linguistic preference.

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Posted on January 24, 2012 in Literary, Poems
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8 Responses to “PERSPECTIVE • by Jonathan Pinnock”


  1. Oscar Windsor-Smith Says:
    January 24th, 2012 at 1:17 pm

    The end of a much loved pet recorded in poetry. So sad.
    Ubiquitous in the Every Day stable recently, Jon. Congrats.

    8) scar

  2. Jonathan Pinnock Says:
    January 25th, 2012 at 1:54 am

    Thanks, Oscar.

  3. Mandy Pannett Says:
    January 25th, 2012 at 11:02 am

    Understated but so moving. A fine poem. Well done.

  4. Patsy Collins Says:
    January 25th, 2012 at 2:05 pm

    That’s so sad.

  5. marion Says:
    January 26th, 2012 at 1:37 am

    Touching.

  6. Jonathan Pinnock Says:
    January 26th, 2012 at 8:37 am

    Thanks, everyone.

  7. Nicky Phillips Says:
    January 26th, 2012 at 4:41 pm

    Aw, nicely done, Jon. (And, incidentally, my linguistic preference is for ‘Autumn’.)

  8. Jonathan Pinnock Says:
    January 31st, 2012 at 2:46 am

    Thanks, Nicky.

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