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THOUGHTS THAT LOOM BEFORE SLEEP 2

thoughts that loom before sleep
like unflushed floaters

That 
    Time 
        When . . .

~

boss wanted
a five minute chat
at five minutes
to clock out

cliche oppression

but i had to go buy a kitchen

~

burnt out dirt bike
on the cement apron
that sloped off
into the brown lap thames

we used to light fires
at night with beers

all flooded now
for the new port

how many more shits
will i have to do ?

from finaceapprise.com

THOUGHTS THAT LOOM BEFORE SLEEP

thoughts that loom before sleep
like open pages of a dropped book
like the start of the Wonder Years

That 
    Time 
        When -

~

fire marshal 
gone moody 

when i said
that he said 
one meter clearance was good

jack nicholsons
impossible grin

~

she said
stupid black man

i said
just stupid man
what? you never met 
a stupid white man ?

& she said 
yep ok yep

birds have no arms
this makes me look away

from sadanduseless.com

THE MOVIEPLEX MACHINE

movies
are

wallpaper

for our time
in the mine

blackmail & distraction

~

got to look

keep my hand in

wallow
in the
peon marsh

~

closed hermetic seal

references
&
reaction shots

shes never too young
hes never too old

tires squeal
on gravel on grass

~

logic & plot
dumped 
into the 
dangerous bathwater

i wont ask questions
if they dont

mixed messages
i
take
to
heart

~

got to look

keep my hand in

wallow
in the
peon marsh

from globalcityholdings.com

CRISIS WE ARE HAVING

 blisterpack 
     oh 
 blisterpack

    mine
    for

two handed gold

~

i 
am 
clean i am 
crisp i am 
codeine 

i am mountain air

~

upgraded invisible
to
tungsten & teflon 

i have a sapphire mind

~

its
another 
fine 
day

in this crisis
we are having

from addictionhelper.com

THACKERAY & CLIVE

thackeray said

dare & the world gives way

i say ha

tell that to 

clive sinclair

& his c5

or maybe . . .

is

that

advice

only

for

dictators you think ?

too tho 

clive is planning a comeback . . .

~

& the quote continues

if it beats you sometimes

dare again

& it will succumb

well i suppose then

that thats ok then 

BUT 

he also said

to endure is greater than to dare

so maybe . . .

is

that

different advice

intended

for

the

uninterested masses 

you think ?

~

make up your mind thackeray

for christs sake

i mean dude - youre caveat city

~

you were a 

quotable soundbite machine

back in the day

gazing over your glasses

into 

all 

the middle distances

smug with pith

you & oscar wilde

would have had a ball

from babillion.altervista.org

COFFEE BENCH BISCUITS

BATHROOM POPLING

brown air
&
the
stench
of the devil

ruffle rug
of
grey cotton wheat
is
tolerant
witness

weft fresh
in
welcome
contrast

from crateandbarrel.com

SKY & SOIL WOULD DO (CIRCUS MIRROR 3)

manufactured aspiration

diamond bores
a
fantasy cavern

thru our mortal charge

subconscious testimony
dopamine fooled
paints us incomplete
with
prime-time
commercial
airbrush

compelled 
we credit-fund
our
hungry hologram implant
with
kipple ballast

searching onlines
eternal scroll
for 
our 
Next Favourite Thing

when
we got more shoes than feet

&
the 
sky & soil

should / would do

ONUS PASSED ON

how hard can it be ?

pass the onus on
like a hot spud

& free
     i stack
what i found
like masonry
like a wall
like a good wall

like a dry stone wall ?

thats hard
thats a tassel trick
in zero g

life is exhausting
&
full of germs

& time goes slow so fast

from www.esa.net

INSTAGRAM REFRACTION (CIRCUS MIRROR 2)

MUST be
re-whole
reformed  
pimped-up

   by
lunchtimes
drugged unsleep

same shit

different whips

overdrawn 
in neon plumage

payday payaway another day

&
there
They
have
Us

history might cry

if it 
wasnt
bunk

from royalholloway.ac.uk

DOOR TO THE FUTURE

when 
youre walking
&
youre talking
&
your voice
goes different

like an echo
like a tomb

like 
some great distance 
has gatecrashed in

&
you sound like someone else
for a long weird moment

but
you just walked
into
a bathroom . . .

thats all
thats all ?

& you sound deeper
& you sound flatter

the tile ?

& then the mirror there
its 
growing you
an 
older mans belly
&
dragging
a
lazy hobo beard

like a child would draw

from
out
your
root vegetable chin

door to the future

i realise

of
the
humble bathroom doorway

door to the future

&
carefully 
i dont look anywhere

& do
what i came
to do

from mccluremccabins.wordpress.com

DREAM GARDEN

NOTOPIA

youre Green
youre Left
youre right

but

Truth On Your Side

is
only
a
eulogy

when the continents
become archipelago 

& 
our diary minds dull
with 
bitter & horrific
screen burn

from kotaku.com

LOCKED GROOVE

sat 
on
top
the
w h o l e  w o r l d

animal quiet
in
a
green delta
of daisies

back brain searching
for a red panic button


~


obsolete aerials 

medication tweaked 
&

r e a c h i n g 

  out 

 there

leave smudged memos
in
the
acoustic zoo
reception
suggestion box


~


receiving 

receiving

a dim clot of beige hum

over
over ?

starlight
playing
hooky


~

i am mindful & mindless

valium coffee
s t e a m i n g 
in hoar frost

plastic zen i call it

a 
locked 
groove

surprise
of
dubious worth

from youtube.com

PHONE SHOP SHOP

phone shop guy

acts like a

holiday rep

hint of hipster

in his man-bangle wrists

the king & jester

of

his unit 28

greif hole 
fiefdom

~

i feel a weird affinity-

some jobs climb in deep

i remember
  rolling 
  rolling 
  shitwork

~

i want out
of here
i want away
from him
but

vintage nokias

we are both agreeing

are back

from cnet.com

CIRCUS MIRROR

they got us
waking wanting 

to 
buy 
shop 
attain
&
somehow thereby  h e a l

our 
small contusions
perceived
as 
massive hemorrhage

circus
mirrors
now
mandatory
in
all
new builds

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