6. Mix and Bake: for Benefits

also for Tom Bamford & Steve Willey, the instigators of Benefits

We grow into the power of the dead
until we become them. Let’s bake cake
Let’s tend children & fine blossom
Each time the measurements we make, OK

Hopeful to begin, inconspicuous here
then suddenly mix! Yeah, yeah
it’s what he learnt you learn
Poetry appearing on a wire rack

Good to drink beer with
That cellar
too dank & alive! A piety to
those who deserve it is true filiation
Something opened to carry on as does

With care, concern, consciousness
what’s good can flourish
Never mind
that melancholy badmouth dichotomy
mix & bake then, Tom & Steve