Wednesday 28 February 2018

DAMBUSTERS NATION MULTIPOPS 4



king arthur 
danced to blurred lines

  in a 
  no-smoking 
  pvc
  bus stop

~


them krays was lovely boys

       two world wars
    
   and one pot of tea 
       ta ma

~

  michael caine 
got a postumus asbo for zulu
  community service 
in liverpool
      1955

~

st george 
   sold pork in palestine

he came here once
   like elvis 




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Tuesday 27 February 2018

DAMBUSTERS NATION MULTIPOPS 3



   our myth is vague
      a driveway uncemented

   bulldog tshirts
        &
   patio chairs 
     on the costa fc

~

       empire said 
we shall boldly go

     where no native
is welcome back from

~

under the war office rug

         are
   
   churchills later ideas
   the savilles 
     &
   bodkin adams

~


  morris dancers

well
  i could never stop laughing

  into
  my
  gin & crisps






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Monday 26 February 2018

DAMBUSTERS NATION MULTIPOPS 2




     village green is
      biscuit tin pretty

sorrow flowers 
for dead glue child

~

     annual pub cricket 
     annual pub cricket

   cliques not worth 
           the poor buffet

~

my name is bond    
    brexit bond

    forward my cv to interpol
    please m

~

     lot to live up to
     more to live down

  set fire 
      to a high street bin





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Friday 23 February 2018

DAMBUSTERS NATION MINIPOP 1




lennon mooned the queen

       mbe 
    in his 

    ny ono crack



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Thursday 22 February 2018

AT THE ZOO



and 
my 
nose is against cool zoo glass  

and
i
watch the coldblood lizards there

they move 
in 
stop-motion freeze-frame

fast but slow

like
in
the 
b&w newsreels
all the 
side-partings watched
smoking filterless 
in the war years

and 
the 
polyester mammals
are
a
reflection 
spectre
behind
me

out of reach

out of reach
like history is
like dreams are

like everything is
in the emergency stop
of
breakdowns
weird
insight






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Wednesday 21 February 2018

GOTTA LAUGH



you gotta laugh

you gotta try to laugh
when
you
feel
the awful fingers
of
mad bad truth

climbing their bitten nails
inside your exhaust port

not rock
not paper
not scissors

beats a real laugh

~

look at our heinous fuckpile 

as if from space
as if from history

and
you
will
find
which teachers
only repeat the sea

and which
surf the moons tide 
as home





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Tuesday 20 February 2018

END OF MY TETHER




end of my tether !
end of my tether ?
assuming i have a tether
and if i do have a tether
i most likely made it myself
and bearing that in mind
then if i reached the end of my tether
then
well

words would be 
              shadows
and
i
would
be
              silence

white roses 

and tears





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Monday 19 February 2018

BABY WITH THE BATH WATER




theres pomes
live in files

that
wont
work

no matter how much 
i take them out
to 
another moonless dance
and
butcher their dahlia blackness
with
pound shop knives
on
the
dogging tarmacadam

and
its
the
offal i keep
to
read in the dirt
like
tea leaves

and no it says
youre not done yet

and i worry i been doing it all wrong
and all the meat is all ruined now

and i accidentally wrote roadkill

didnt i ?

and
spread it all out
unreadable 
on
machine
crushed 
gravel

where forests once sang





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Thursday 15 February 2018

CRESCENT POPS



1 BIN

maureens not put
her bins out again

i wonder if she is dead

or
just
laying
in



2 OK

( shes fine
  never fills them up enough she says )

theres
a
photographer
round
the
corner

she says

who lures in baby badgers
from the fields
with pet shop chicks

and she hisses at the streetside cats
to keep them off her tiny lawn



3 PAPER BOY

the paper boy
is
such
a
bedraggled orphan
in
the
filthy
night

hood down in the rain
defeated by the wind

that i gift him a chocolate egg



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Wednesday 14 February 2018

APOLOGY FROM THE OTHER SIDE (SPORK GIBBONS)



dear next generations

we were 
just
cutlery monkeys

hungry and jealous

juiced and crazy

on the nod
in polyester
and plywood

blinded
by
the
information cascade

drowning
in
the
junk mail brown envelope ppi rain

and short sighted
in
the
hollywood backdrop glare

and

we
couldnt
make
it
rhyme
in time

we are so so sorry about that

( ps
  we hear 
  the fallout
  will make for
  amazing sunsets )




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Tuesday 13 February 2018

SOMETHING HE SAYS



he says
theres
ALWAYS
something
to hear
in this notification age

he says
theres
ALWAYS
something
to count
now money is the hammer
and the anvil

he says
theres ALWAYS something
to crave

we are stuck
he says
between a clock
and a hard pace

we are stuck
he says
between a cock
and a lard face

youre NOT funny
i says
so - what do we do ?

head south
he says

antartica
he says

the etch-a-sketch continent ?
i says

yes
he says
leave your calculators
right there on the chair
with your oxfords
and your life-hack omnibus

but i will LOSE my assumed dimensions
i says
i must take a book

no
he says
THATS the point
you will find
Something Else
inside silences
rebel yell

oh
will i ?
i says
sooo – you not coming then ?

and he says
wouldnt
be
silent
if
i
did

now would it ?




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Monday 12 February 2018

ANTEROOM




the unformed loom in the gloam - 

a lost dog or minor deity ?

dont matter no difference
on this dark dome 

cos
either 
way 
i
bet
you

a leg is raised
in
baptism and piss
for 
the
desperate unions here

in
the
anteroom of the dead 





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