TROUBLES

i taped the worlds troubles
up in a shipping box

& the courier i book

well hes no mercury

he dont like having 

the rubicon in the rear view

& hes tired of atlas 

yawning up ahead

from fanjjjt.com

THE DUST IS HONEST

got to go 

go leak out my ports
in the special room 

yes again

fascists hide in the pines

hide in the curriculums

we see you

yes again

~

soft machine maintenance

is endless

is clip & prune

is secrete & repeat

existence farts

the dust at least is honest

dry crying over our bones

from the guardian.co.uk

ONE BLOOM

 

i have heard 

lifes a turd 

call it fertiliser 

& try grow something 

out that bad nature stink

weeds are fine

just wait for the bloom

one bloom can eclipse

the sweating dogs of parliament

& push back again

that meeting on the ledge

your dark wings pencilled in

from modernfarmer.com

FLUID GLITCHING

me still then am i ?
i think in the morning

self absorbed mantra

or zen confirmation

questions answers vary 

with the clocks tick tock 

~

& if i am glitching -

well it segues so smooth 

my identity is a spectrum

coming up from my shoes

from redbubble by smakly

ARGUE IN MY MIND

i argue with him

in my mind

i am his devils advocate

or he is mine

i think i win

he doesnt care

it winds me up

& hes not here

~

its hard to look 

at the world sometimes

without floating off nowhere

from ultimateclassicrock.com 

dave swanson / sean gallup / getty images

REFLECTIVE POP

a 

slab 

of
sleeping animal

far from anywhere

i remember i calmed
the nowhere 90s

with hysterical
frisco guitar

from en.wikipedia.org

ILLNESS POP

cant think about it
cant

not about all i missed
all i will miss
all thats taken

~

cant think about it
cant

cos of the pills popped
&
cos of the safety locks
kicking in inside

~

adaptability i realise
(oh fuck)
is a strength & flaw

from lifecounsellingsolutions.com

CAGE & BONE POPS

what do
the treetops care

if our cement can look elegant as bone

when 
the light
is right


~


the cage is 5g

led & hd 

we are lounge wear canaries

urged out 
into 
the 
shuttered high street coal mine

after the porn bomb zoom

from bloomberg.com

AIR FRESHENER

this air freshener
is like i would be
if i was an air freshener

the unnecessary bulk
the strange nozzle

& a spray that dribbles
weak & scentless
into blots
shaped like africa
drying fast
on the cool bathroom floor

from cordis.europa.eu

FM DUST

my heads an fm station
all the hundred hours

orphan baselines & exiled hooks

& i breath in fruitbowl orange 
& breath out the darkside greys

but 
the dark comes out as dust 

& it gets back in
gets back in my eyes

a phantom coda
riding destiny thermals

from dreamstime.com

NATURE VS NATURE

birds pretty afternoon chatter
effervesces in the holly bush

my
migraine
hinterland
is
appalled

~

& todays submerged brainfudge mantra is -

ups / ibs
toilets meet the street*

*& repeat

from cleantechnica.com

FOR CONFIRMATION

off winters berm
&
inside summers umber

i
read
back
my
own
book
words

by the fire escape drop
& 
the snow shovels cobs

for existential confirmation
in the hereditary mirror

from pinterest

WORD INTERVENTION

i stack words like this

to stop them losing meaning

they become untethered alone you see

& stacked like this
i give them 
each other
as ballast
& intervention

from comopoertyproject/nakushita-kotoba-lost-words-by-no-regret-life

ILLNESS DOWNER THERAPY POP

'every six months or so
 like the seasons i suppose
 it seems to me 
 a bit of me dies 
 somewhere inside'

 & we started from there

 my essential therapy
 &
 the therapists education

from J.hagelüken - Own work, 

CC BY-SA 3.0, 

https://commons.wikimedia.org

MY ANALOGIES ARE TOO EXTREME

cant explain it

there arent the words

& my analogies are too extreme

so i explain what i can

& they understand what they understand

& we meet in the middle

militancy in the margins

from spooniehacker.com

THE MOUNTAIN OF HEALTH

up the mountain of health
to the golden cat up there

we climb we do
in spurts of spirit & hope

& we fall we do
tumble in the thick msg slick

looking up at the mountain top
& the golden cat up there

stuffed crust pizza in his hand
previous allergies inconsequential

from dreamstime.com

MUSIC POP

& the jazz rock fusionators
touching up the funk

& the mentholated hiphop metalers
pillaging the cinema

hose me down
at half time

& fill me up again

from kleptones.bandcamp.com

GAME SHOW ECHO, AN OVERTHINK POP

last nights tv game show voices

echo still next dawn

mates rates bonhomie

to me is cold green room ice

classic dark side reaction

to producers 
soft antidote
hard sell 

numberwang from pinterest

MUDDIED WATER

yes
in
the
muddied
water

washing & drinking
print & cast

~

& i feel like i am waiting

i feel like i am
at the end of something
&
at the start of something

all the time

~

& yes -
in
IN
the
muddied
water

of airstrip ones 
doublethink 
headspace swamp

from time.com by quinn rooney / getty images

2020 VISION

2020 vision 
for the horrorshow

perspective
for tomorrows bad news morning

beer garden goat

understands

his

rope

from machinedesign.com