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

HOSPITAL TEA BREAK POP #1

 

blue-light 

back gates 

smoke break

i see a cow

a tractor
three separate rats 

& the air smells of ambulance diesel

& farmers ammonium sulphate fertilizer  

& we drink coffee from unwashed mugs

& stare vacantly at the traffic flow 

treading water

in the ebb 

of another ten AM

EVEN JUST A BLIM

art before chores
art before youre dressed

art before voyeuristic vicarious

online viddy & earwigging

even if its just a blim
of a homeless thoughtscape headplan 

even if its looking up art
in the dictionary

& reading the definition

& thinking about the definition
& rewriting the definition much better
in your mind where no one can see

even if its composing a poem 

like this one

while pissing & leaning on the tiles

mind freed & untethered

by biological drainage & release