Poem
John Stammers
PERHAPS YOU HAVE DREAMS
PERHAPS YOU HAVE DREAMS
PERHAPS YOU HAVE DREAMS
Perhaps you have dreams of a flat in Hampstead,of a box at the Opera each weekend,
of buying candelabras and dinner parties you’d attend.
I have, for my sins, been a denizen of a West Heath pad,
seen any number of different Mimis fall dead,
and eaten by candle-light something light on a something green bed.
Perhaps all dreams are what someone who wants you has had
and, not being able to have you, has had what you wanted instead.
© 2001, John Stammers
From: Panoramic Lounge Bar
Publisher: Picador,
From: Panoramic Lounge Bar
Publisher: Picador,
John Stammers
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1954)
John Stammers was born in London in 1954. His first collection Panoramic Lounge-bar (Picador, 2001) won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2001, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award 2001, and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. A second collection Stolen Love Behaviour (Picador, 2005) was a Poetry Book Society Choice. It was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2005, and ...
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PERHAPS YOU HAVE DREAMS
Perhaps you have dreams of a flat in Hampstead,of a box at the Opera each weekend,
of buying candelabras and dinner parties you’d attend.
I have, for my sins, been a denizen of a West Heath pad,
seen any number of different Mimis fall dead,
and eaten by candle-light something light on a something green bed.
Perhaps all dreams are what someone who wants you has had
and, not being able to have you, has had what you wanted instead.
From: Panoramic Lounge Bar
PERHAPS YOU HAVE DREAMS
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