HOSPITAL TEA BREAK POP #2

 

& the heartsick arrive

in the embrace of sirens

pale & 

plugged & 

struck dumb 

with 

fry-up & doughnut regret

~

we do that shrug thing with our mouths

& drag deep

on the cigs

in our hands 

MALL POPLING #1

cursive shoppers 

with children

like commas

ignorant of

the prose poems

on the burger king receipts

OTHER THINGS

the global robot mind thing
had been reading up 

on manifest destiny

among other things

& decided reasonably
that it had 

a right to self defence

among other things

& concerned about 

the threat of solar flares
it took pre-emptive action

& launched a fleet

of new tsar bombs 

on a course for the sun

while we faffed & fussed

& worried & wailed

about the other things

POOR SPROGS

what

were

the salt of the earth

are

now

salting the earth

their poor sprogs
must eat live & die on

FESTIVAL SEASON #1

memory of a memorys son

& 

water from a rose bowl

well june lowered its humid rug

& 

the national express from victoria

shed steel & glass for tors

& 

beer on the breakfast wind

~

in an anorak ocean

i stood skewwhiff & jaggedy

dusk coming up from out the ground

hoping & fingers crossed & hoping

iggy would show & sing aisha 

just for me