He’s got a,
well,
it’s a sort of blue jumper,
you know, a kind of navy blue jumper
built up from a thousand little squares
threaded together with a zip,
a zip, on the outside of the bicep,
a zip, on the side of the bicep
kind of like I’d imagine an army boy
wearing on a two-day break on a quiet island
during a weekend off from being an army boy
and his head is shaved and the sides are shaved
and his back is straight and he’s eating mints
and his boots are polished and his jeans are ironed
and the sheet of paper, the one underneath
the iPad playing an episode of EastEnderss
has the words Untitled Miami Project written on it.

Carl Burkitt 2024