Totally Unaware
Totally unaware,two young lovers sat in the front seats of a brightly coloured sky blue Volkswagen,discover each others lips.Sat on a petrol forecourt under the canopya petrol station on a street down the main carriageway totally unaware off the seafrontpast the railway stationup the hillpast the Co-op all on a Tuesday evening in a seaside town.Fish and chipsseagulls and parking wardensin the watery sun of a late April eveningan evening like any other - yet totally unique.Humans debating which carwash program to choose,tapping on screens,totally unaware buying chocolate listening to radiosall of us balanced on a rockin a solar systemtotally unaware we are spinning in the nothingness of spaceround a huge illuminating street lamp - our sunall tucked up in the milky way itself contained in a single bubble trapped in a bottle of washing up liquid placed on the side of a vast 'cosmic sink'awaiting the next dirty platesaround which flow the electrons in the circuitry of a cheap 'street light' powered calculator the one that was used to work outhow much 'the totally unaware young lovers' bill added up to,the calculator totally unaware wanted to know who it was that was pushing it's buttonsperforming those calculationsand why it too was at this petrol station but not in a sky blue Volkswagen and why traffic wardens were eating fish and chipswhilst the washing up liquid was totally unaware as to who agitated it to make the bubbles in the first place -was it a higher being?Maybe this higher being lives outside our milky waymaybe it's a traffic wardenwould they like some fish and chips too?...it seems we're all just - totally unaware!