I found this poem on an old external harddrive. I have no idea or memory who it is about. It may only have been a fragment. I can’t even piece together who it was I was writing about in 2002. The painting above is not related

Red Man, Watercolour on Paper, by Jamie Zubairi ©2014

The Cartoon

by Jamie Zubairi

It goes too easily.
The thought of you, goes
Like too many lines, the wrong curve,
A flash of the strobe
In my mind and then

Whiteness.

Blank.

Your face, looking like your cartoon,
So many different expressions
Made with the same line –
The line describing your hair
Actually lets slip your forehead
And the curve of your nose –
The hint of a break,
An accident you had
Going from the ground
To the sky,
Trampolining.