‘THE ACCEPTED CONVENTIONS 

 OF SPACE, TIME & REALITY’ 

(with thanks to Ian Lee) 

the scatter-winds of February 

redistribute last week’s garbage 

from there to here in a cascade 

of a hundred yesterdays, until 

I no longer know if JF Kennedy, Buddy Holly 

and Monica Lewinsky are history or myth, 

there are reality shows where Thai girls endure 

 cosmetic surgery to become Shakira, or Barbi dolls, 

there are political theorists to explain how Watergate 

was perpetrated by Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford, 

ethical issues have become a Freeview gameshow with 

trick questions to catch out the unwary, such as whether 

HG Wells made the first moon landing or if it was a CBS 

telecast, contestants get a five second countdown to decide, 

Martin Amis puts characters called Martin Amis 

in his novels, but swears they’re not him, 

I no longer know if Jupiter is really the size we 

see it in data from the James Webb Space Telescope 

or if fortune is simply a poem by another name

 

Featured online at: 

‘IT: INTERNATIONAL TIMES’ (12 March 2022) 

https://internationaltimes.it/the-accepted-conventions-of-space-time-reality/