Monday 28 February 2022

EMBASSIES ASSEMBLE



the sympathy avenues
are striped blue & gold

& spring bulbs are on hold
for tomorrows gardens

build up the molotov hoards
on the country fair stalls

~

oh 
abstaining / absent / exiled 
lord

how i wish
i was 
Ironman
today

& not 
jabbing fevered 
at the touchscreen
news feed refresh

helpless 
in sanitys
profanity

~

embassies assemble !
bland in tooth & claw

& i joined anonymous

i think

but am not sure











Thursday 24 February 2022

TOIL IN THE DISCONNECT



steel fish
on the
grey top

head upstream
to feed
to breed

to toil in the disconnect

meat destiny outsourced 
in evolved surrender











Wednesday 23 February 2022

SAFER THAN TREPANNING




in the heave & low-fro 
of the slow-sick fug-fog
my brain does whine 
its white noise moan

skull boxes it 
it is muddy
i cant even wail


~


go live in my belly

its simpler 
more animal
roomier 

safer than diy youtube trepanning












Tuesday 22 February 2022

THIS IS WHY THERE ARE SEDATIVES




& my brain
is thinking 
about my brain
with my brain

like a ladder trying
to climb itself

a mirror turning its back 
in a mad effort to see






Monday 21 February 2022

DESPERATE GEORGE




george is desperate
nuclear bomb new york desperate

he was in turkey five minutes ago
& asked about coffee he says

'i popped some stay-awakes on the plane'

hes wearing khakis with dress shoes -
the russian enjoyed pointing that out


~


george is desperate
hotel room egg squishing desperate

'still warm' he says

& in a desperate radio order
to NEST & FBI & NYPD & nicole

he says 
'stop anyone north of 55th with a backpack'

oh desperate desperate george









Friday 18 February 2022

FAIRY LIQUID BUBBLES




with her 
shoulder-slung ipad

the child
looks like 

a starfleet trainee 
to me


~


i used 
to chase 
fairy liquid bubbles 
around the no-fi kitchen

with its
split-level stove
corner cubby
&
under-stair pantry


~


three channels 
broadcasting 
from lunchtime

night time 
closedown 
anthems

on the 
bulbous 
twist-knob 
tv











Wednesday 16 February 2022

OFF-CUT POPS, EGO, TRUTH & CHIMPS




& ego says
sans evidence

that any silence from the earth audience

is
cos
of
mind-blown awe


~


the truest thing 
i saw online 
this week was -

'help me, i'am awake !'


~


the truest thing
i read all week
was -

'...the ever increasing importance
    of my afternoon shit...'


~


if 
its against the rules
in 
the house of commons 
to 
declare someone Liar
then
maybe they should drop 
the 
right honourable prefix

so sick of their faces

hooting like chimps
on the green seats









Tuesday 15 February 2022

TAPPED INTO THE MUSHROOM

 


thru pain & desperation
comes slow a realisation

of the genus love

soft round the edges 
but mountain size

~

i have tapped into the mushroom

a neo-acid maybe

or a gibsonesque 
science fiction
information field

~

it doesnt last

i was having a bath

maybe far too hot









Monday 14 February 2022

THE YES QUADROPHONE

 



insights elusive 
brainpan flatline

need drums / basic rhythm 

two chords enough i reckon

& vocals that frisson 

ramones / micra girls 

yes


~


i question the questions

with a stubborn silence

useless yes but it feels right

in the 
   white rabbits 
      late late late 
         wormhole blues


~


file me under side effects
for the twitches & itches 

& the cool clutter 
fights
the spartan dream

poetry was in the olympics once

naked

yes


~


i cross the junkyard mardyke
& count the cows
grazing on the floodplain 

inside the steel music
of the blacktop rivers 

yes







Friday 11 February 2022

OFF-CUT DAWN POPS

 


again
birds yell-sing the new day in

horny bastards

they dont second guess this stuff


~


my head goes 
accelerator electric

in the hot water 
inspiration shower


~


dawn wears its golden codpiece

lighting up the houses down the hill

& still its yet not midnight

in  f a n t a s t i c  LA 










Thursday 10 February 2022

WHEN THE DUST IS PROVERBIAL

 


& promise me hollow
a footnote quote typo
on a dry bench plaque

& promise me like ad copy
a lit candle guttering
in a poverty draft

when the dust is proverbial
& the ashes too


~


& i will do 
what i can do 
to deserve it 
this morning

before 
afternoon auto-sedation
&
evenings anxious riptide suction

saving up my pennies
for a mushroom suit
every careless reset











Tuesday 8 February 2022

HID HIS WORDS IN DIRGE



the first time i saw dylan
he was alien to me

DESIRE BOB PLAY DESIRE BOB

yelled the lunatic behind us
pissing off everyone near him

but the travelling mumbleberry
hid his words in dirge
left the stage - 

left us 

with 
a 
p r o l o n g e d
double bass solo

before a mangled watchtower


~


the second time i saw dylan
i thought i was more prepared
but
his rodeo-pimp-chic
his full-on folkabilly barrage -

well i could not stop laughing

i pissed off 
everyone 
near 
me









Monday 7 February 2022

I WANT TO BE SHOES




when i grow up

i want to be

a humble & revered

old painting

of worn-in shoes


with always a queue of fodder 
for my people-watching pleasure


& long long
quiet quiet
museum peace nights











Friday 4 February 2022

ALL THE MORNING FARTING

 



just a middle-aged man
eating the only apple he can
in front of the bathroom mirror

hes counting knives in his head
pondering l
evel 2
& the things rock stars said


~


apple skin stick-stuck 
between teeth of course
     
& all the morning hes farting 
     
farting H E L P in morse












Thursday 3 February 2022

OBSERVE THE MOONLIT WOLF




you have coffee / you 
dont look at news
you know its the same / or worse
you peek / who are you kidding ?

fluid acronyms 
fight in fluid wars

assassinated strawmen 
impossible to mourn

selective famine
puts his choosing cloak on
greenbacks in his bone fist

& you with the full fridge
observe the moonlit wolf


~


the number men say

life expectancy is up

so very broadly speaking  

but i struggle to
believe 

itreliable indicator of progress

amazon yourself 
a same-day 
rain-dance mac
head out to the narcissus ponds 










Wednesday 2 February 2022

TO THE THAMES IN FOUR CORNERS



take the first left
then the first right
first left again
then second left 

& stop

you can see the thames from here

that storied history river

conrad dracula pepys
the ss richard montgomery

a thumbnail smudge
between the horizon cranes










Tuesday 1 February 2022

BINMEN MY BINMEN




steel shrieks in the sub dawn

hi vis trash fairies 
purge the plastic proof
of our consumer guilt

consumer guilt paused 
like smoke in a photo

of
a
parisian balcony night


~


sometimes i wave to them
if i am up & backlit
in the front window

but i am too old for that
& it dilutes the magic

like a trumpet
in the trees


~


i feel
a tangible absence / a lightness
tugging the empty bins back in

consumer guilt . . . gone ?

no - taken

to foreign beaches 
for brassic foraging 

a plastic bird in the hand
worth two in the toxic bush