On your tombstone
you’ve got your birth date
and the day of your decease —
and you’ve got your dash.
Live your dash.
Hold still and watch the birds.
Like the hummingbirds —
why are there so many of them?
Taken from the London Evening Standard’s review of Werner Herzog’s Into the Abyss, 30th March 2012. A comma has been removed after ‘tombstone’. Submitted by Rishi Dastidar.
Verbatim Poetry 