Kathy Burke says people stop her
in the street asking her to tell them
to Fuck off instead of asking for a photo.
Perhaps the man in the park,
the one telling me to Fuck off
while I’m trying to take a picture
of a daft squirrel in a tree,
thinks I made the same request of him.
He’s gone now
unaware my brain will wear him
like a mole I’ll have to keep an eye on
for eternity. 

© Carl Burkitt 2023