Poem (Don't look...)

Portrait of Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter 1930–2008

Don't look. The world's about to break.

Don't look. The world's about to chuck out all its light and stuff us in the chokepit of its dark, That black and fat suffocated place Where we will kill or die or dance or weep Or scream of whine or squeak like mice To renegotiate our starting price.

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