Unused room
when Grandpa Rip
planned this house
he made a big living room
parquet floors
french windows
fireplace
but it’s cold
and Mummy likes to keep it clean
so we sit in the playroom
at the front
radiator television
fold away table
every night the BBC news
it freaks me out
to see us all like zombies
glued to the goggle box
in the living room
on the sofa
on Granny Scott’s fox furs
that Timothy sewed together
i’m reading
Shamanism by
Mircea Eliade