1. LIGHTS
the sun is fuck-tired
and
brain-drained
by
too-long summer days
and
falls over itself
in relief
by 7 pm
leaving
the
streets burning all horror-show
with
paranoid security bulbs
shining showbiz spotlights
over
block-paved flooded hatchback drives
and
commuter headlamps scan the colourless bricks
swinging
like
prison
searchlights
the night
full
with
silent
alarms
we
light optimistic bath candles
to shut our eyes to
and
stroke laptops under reading lamps
like pets
and
cook to the dim radio DAB displays
of quiet jazz
and
then
dream before the dead blue flicker
of
evening tv
selling
life insurance
in case
and
beach holidays
we deserve
from mindfulbalance.org
2. TOURIST
in
the awful autumn depression
of
gut memories and cold-sweat nerves and dead afternoons
i
hold
the
Gone Winters
with oven gloves and teflon love
cos
who
can
really balance
that
old
Tourist Pain
with
the
New Fool
hanging
by
fingernails
off
todays scribbled diary ?
from howkapow.com
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