Sunday 31 December 2017

HPPY NW YR ETC





again a years gone

thank you for reading hatchbacks

springs
distance
disturbs




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pic from haltcatchfire.com

Friday 29 December 2017

HAIKU DUO


INCOMING


styrofoam coffee

flowers 
       on the fm winds


fridge hum / counter strike ?





ANOTHER COFFEE


cold snap
so gloves out

coffee from the motherland 

white aprons 
white noise 




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from tilitnyc.com

Thursday 28 December 2017

HAIKU TWO OF



OUTSIDE


outside of it all

hedges and air and cement
                      and 

on
a
spur
of
ledge



DEJA VU


rolling deja vu

wind whips peaks on the river

family 
blanket




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from pinterest

Wednesday 27 December 2017

HAIKU X TWO




ILLNESS


rainfall darkens bark

puddle mirrors 
                winter fog

dutch
elm
disease




BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS


dawn is night mourning

we're heroes
            in the come down 

  then

  like
  salmon

  up 





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from deborahsilver.com








Tuesday 26 December 2017

TWO HAIKU



DOUBLE GLAZING


outdoors is silent

its double glazing doing that 

                   its
                 double
                 glazing 




MILTON KEYNES


hear earth        
spin its 

          resigned tired diagram 

  beat by
milton keynes




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from open.edu

Sunday 24 December 2017

I WONDER



again i wonder

        again i wonder
        in rain

i
wonder
again




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from temblor.net

Saturday 23 December 2017

ANOTHER CAFE / HAIKU




calm quiet sideshow 

          calm ?
          this early
it is  yes

cutlery like bells



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pic from direct.asda.com

Friday 22 December 2017

NO NAMES



i
argue
with
this
voice
in my head

mostly in the kitchen

on
all
the
big subjects
of
the
day

its not quite
a devils advocate

more
the
voice
of
people 
i worked with
i played with
from
anywhere
in
the
past
decades

mostly people who were wrong
most of the time
in
a
very
special stubborn 
way
but no names no names

and i dont know them anymore
but
i
must
set
them
straight

mostly in the kitchen

even tho 
theyll
never know



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from theatlantic.com

Thursday 21 December 2017

MACEDONIA 2 / HAIKU



i wrote a petal

called macedonia

tho
i
flower
been




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from flowermeaning.com

Wednesday 20 December 2017

THE PLANET OF SLUMS



CARDBOARD DREAMING

those
poor
carbon
stacks
delegated
an
unbelievable
unrelatable
shitarse
nothing
trapped
by
economics
in the
sad bad acres
of landfill ghetto
on
this
planet of slums

well they dream of having dreams
under polythene and pollution
on biodegradable cardboard sheets


OLYMPIC BULLDOZER

remember when
the bulldozers came ?

and flattened
our awful shacks ?

remember when
the olympics came ?

and they built that wall
to hide us from the road ?

no ?
too busy trying
to fuel
basic metabolism functions ?

me too me too
tho i always wondered
if those bulldozers
they got souls ?

and i feel for them

i mean made for building
werent they ?

and
look
what
they
had
to
do

whats that ?
the drivers you say ?

fuck em

theyre where
civil disobedience
should start



PASS THE BRANDY

theres a purity in being poor
dont you think ?

the simple life
of a frugal man

its got a ring to it
dont you think ?

imagine owning like two things ?

that must be liberating
dont you think ?

like being a monk i imagine

i mean if they
really wanted out
well theyd do something
about it wouldnt they ?

they must LIKE it there
dont you think ?

i can empathise in a way
i mean the waiting list
for bentleys these days

i blame the russians
dont you ?

well come on
pass the brandy
tarquin old chap
i cant face
the stables and mother sober



ARISTOCUNTS

and we cherish them
dont we ?

its our culture
isnt it ?

the races
afternoon tea
ski chalets
the boys club
daddys off-shore
the estate
the penthouse
butlers
maids
stable boys
an ancient groundskeeper
pheasants
foxes
stiff upper lips
backbone

harmless isnt it ?
like
a
costume
drama

like when we had india



MIDDLE

and the
royal-crazy mentalists
on the
low rungs

and the
professional clusterfuck
in the
madness middle

they
defend
the
world
above
them

preserve it

its their dream

all sure
they got some
blue blood somewhere

and
they
all
want
pity
for being left out

a guiltless way in

and never having
to look down
again

at those
trapped
down there
by
economics

on our
planet of slums





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from amazon.com





Tuesday 19 December 2017

CALL THEM OUT



tear
the
ribbon
out
the
night

make a bow
with it
that looks
like a knot

pull
the
string
from
the  
day

make a knot
with it
that looks 
like a mistake

then throw them on the rug

and read them 
like tea leaves
like chicken bones

like those 
crease lines of coincidence
dug into your paws *

and then call them out
on
all
the absence
you
found
there

then bin the fuckers

or leave the fuckers there

in
case
you
read
them
wrong




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from yourtango.com




( that you
   still today
   look at
   and wonder at
   with the vague hope
   of a childs superstition 
   you
   never
   fully shake -
   where is it ?
   wheres the money line ? )

Monday 18 December 2017

CHECK



chin up
finger out
game face on

check

cover your bones
with that polyester cotton
take another leap of faith
into the 

watercolour / holodeck / wes anderson show

that looks 
just like yesterday
did

dont ask / dont wonder / dont obsess
how 
   can 
      this 
          be ?

check

remember
stiff upper lip son
and
dont explain
dont complain

check

and dont look down

unless
youre very very sure 
of your footing

out there
on
the
rotten
rungs

check

and onwards
the samewards

into
that
darkening
reduction

that glare of never heaven

that
rolling 
d
 i    i
        p 
    s       a 
            
  s           t        
                       o
                i 
                    
                          n 

thats entropy on slo-mo

check

and remember too
maintenance is ALL

thru the verse 
of daytimes
forced meter

into
the
collapsing
loose elation
chorus

of nights sigh





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the abyss by alexiuss from deviantart.com

Saturday 16 December 2017

GREEN SLEEVES


















THEY DREAM OF DREAMS



we
wallow and whine
in
the
polythene mountains
of
our
empty
plenty

manufacturing 

desolate sort of acceptance
streaming films on minimalism
on the main hd tv

waiting on 
another supermoon
to tease us 
from behind
britains
overcast
indigo felt

and those others
them on the tv appeals

them that smile wide eyed
at a hand-me-down overcoat

they dream
of having dreams




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from matthewoldfield.photoshelter.com

Thursday 14 December 2017

WAVING THE BUSES PAST




i
dont
move
now
how
i
used
to

i used to dance
with the heavy stock
in a warehouse ballet

tipping
endless
trucks
in
the
hurricane storm theatre
of
a
night shifts
dense AM
service road
fox parade

~

now i drag myself now

gimpy

lame

along the evacuated 
daytime streets
to the
bus stop benches

where i fold up
and wheeze
on the downlow
so no one knows

waving the buses pass

i only want outdoor air

and a glimpse
of
the
streetside
and 
the 
flashbacks
i left there

~

and
i
feel 
like 
an 
office-busted pensioner feels
in their 
last outdoor 
dog walking days

ankles wired
to the antiques roadshow
and 
the 
easy chair tune

but i dont wear 
their beige uniform

i will never wear 
that beige uniform

~

and
i
feel
like
i
been
eaten
up
by
the early chapters
proposition and drama
and
am

shadow of a subplot

in danger of
heavy editing

~

so 

quietly go about
my essential work
in
the
morning pockets

filing the reports
and 
writing the footnotes
under
the
cotton mist

but plotting 

steppenwolf redemption

and planning 

war with the machines

in
a
geriaction
sequel
coda





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clumber park cricket ground bus stop from bbc.co.uk