This poem is taken from Stand 243, 22(3) September - November 2024.

John Greening Three Poems
Meditations after Marcus Aurelius

I
Without ever the least appearance of anger, or any other passion

It starts the moment we’re on board: the phone,
the sawn-off ego, thrust into my face,
a voice engaging deeply with its own
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