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John Lawrence
John Lawrence was born in Belfast in 1964. In 1982 he enrolled at Cambridge University to read Politics after which he gained a diploma in International Law. In 1988 John relocated to the United States where he took up a position with the UN Diplomatic Corp. In 2001 John returned to Belfast with his wife and children and runs a small horticultural business
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My Mothers a robot by John Lawrence
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She's standing with her hands
On her hips. Lips pursed,
Brings her right fist
To her chin
Her arm across her body
The other one tucked
In at the elbow.
She switches poise
In a regimental manner
Military like,
And flicking her index finger
And thumb out to pull
at the corners of her mouth
I start thinking
Of Wolverine,
Or the Bionic Man
If they'd fitted him
With a pair of Swiss Army
Knives instead of hands.
I ask her her thinking
On the suicide of Turd Ferguson
And why she thinks it hasn't been
On the news yet.
She answers:
they don't publicise suicide
And it is then she appears to me
More machine than mother.
This has gone on for 14 years
And that suspicion
hasn't left me since.
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