Thursday, 31 March 2022

CIGARETTES OVER HOCKENHEIM




the stoned rosy haze
    in seaside air at dusk

the bright night eyes 
    mad with light like stars 

the cigarettes over hockenheim
the dead boots in the festival mire
the noon tequila in sohos soul

the 2 AM
    small town 
        stark bowl of sky

  are   
my   screen   burn










Wednesday, 30 March 2022

DIAL THAT GOODTIME NUMBER




algorithm
prism fibs
fight proxy
in
the
meat world

dial that goodtime number today
if youre gonna

before the dirt 
is flat & packed
tank-track solid

& no rot can reach
natures carrion nose
thru 
the 
meltdown plastic shroud









Tuesday, 29 March 2022

IN THE COMING OF AGE INDIE FLICKS




i like the self-awareness
  & the rude honesty 
  of their pop metaphors

i like the way they dress
  the knits under hoodies 
  & their impossible t-shirts

i like the small town freedom
  the existential bubbles
  & fun in the hospital moments

i like seeing 
  their baby wings bloom 
  all innocent-wise

in the coming-of-age indie flicks

with high school only a back pocket stub










Monday, 28 March 2022

GUILT IS IN THE EYE OF THE SHAREHOLDER




'rolling just to keep on rolling
 i dont want to leave 
 this heaven so soon'
Mark Lanegan


this writing lark
  born of cliche fear

this posey parade
  coming out the chalk pit mire

its guilt-dumping
  in the pleasure cup

its dirty genesis seed
  seeking the right rot

so fling it chimp style
  at the observers glass

& name it something weepy 
  heavy with caveats

in the showground mirror of it all












Friday, 25 March 2022

LIFE BEGINS WITH F




life
begins
with
F

~

i hear a distant PA
in
that
orphan moment of waking

coffee silences
the imagined
tannoy trill












Thursday, 24 March 2022

THEY MAKE A DOLL OF HIM




theyre making a doll of him

olive tshirt / 
army fleece 
little flaming bottle bombs

little dots of war-o-clock shadow
& empty ready fist-hook hands 

they made a doll of him

~

all the stars 
come out to play
to pay 
to wave
to give passwords away

to the tired man
calling to the world

~

&
we make dolls of him
&
we might make a che of him

a meme team app industry of him

him & his 2000 mile glare-stare

~

we make dolls of him
fiddling with unkillable plastic
frozen in the looming gloam of nukes











Monday, 21 March 2022

YESTERDAYS MEN

 


yesterdays men
beige wrapped & dawn charmed

shamble & gamble
up the top 
to the paper shop

for their own personal choice
of infoprint prejudice meat

folded in half & carried home
for another naked breakfast


~


they navigate like history ships
weak wind in worn sails
round the pavements cement cracks
recounting recurring tales
&
they reach out to brick gateposts
for a hint of masked support
the flat shoe shuffle going slowly now
keeping it together till home port










Friday, 18 March 2022

PLEASE DISCUSS 4, OXYMORONIC




'the more things change 
 the more they stay the same'

i cannot be arsed 
to look into 
the origins 
of this oxymoronic

be it trite or pith
i fix it thus -

'some thing change'

but who feels clever saying that ?

i invite you to remember
triggers broom -

17 new heads & 14 new handles


~


please discuss
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ask if you need more paper









Thursday, 17 March 2022

STUFF I HEAR NO 8




gardener chips chopped deadfall
into the strimmed grass piles

down there up the road

the fridge plays
call & response 

talking-blues style

with the plumbings
slo-mo hesitant hums









Tuesday, 15 March 2022

STUFF I HEAR NO 2

 


a handbrake yank & screech
& the postmans out & laughing
his radio not on today

the vans sliding door slides open
with a sound hard to describe - 

a latch crunch-clack 
& truncated roller rail wail ? 

anyway -
he ho-hums his round away
pausing for jabber natter

yeah mate
yeah mate
yeah








Monday, 14 March 2022

MANHANDLING RUST




optimism
got in somehow

it has a chemical glow
&
makes for an unusual day

~

i was in the garage
manhandling rust

when sunlight got in
the cement slab holes

& lit the spiderwebs up
something holy









Friday, 11 March 2022

PLEASE DISCUSS 5, TRUTH WORLD

 


its popular 
these days 
to say that

'this is the post-truth world'

& i understand
what they mean

& i understand
the buzz word need

but it implies 
there was a truth-world

& i think i missed that


~


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Thursday, 10 March 2022

EMPTY SWINGS KNOW, A NEWS FLASH POP

 


heavy sadness 
is the other sunshine  
there in the snapshot moments

the empty swings know

next up 
    heres hermes with the sport 










Wednesday, 9 March 2022

PLEASE DISCUSS 3, INTERNETS




the amazon prime minister
got the facebook jones

instagram cats
in q-anon hats

ebay payday
finds your next Favourite Thing

~

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Tuesday, 8 March 2022

DANDELIONS OF YOUTH

 


i get the 
heebie jeebies

when i see 
the hospital horizon 

over & above 
the pesticide leaning 

of the 
died & dried dandelions 

of  gone  youth










Monday, 7 March 2022

PLEASE DISCUSS 2, SUNROOM RUGS

 


as 
the saying goes

i am old enough & ugly enough 
to know that shit changes

but why does it turn into shit ?

like 
weightlifters 
cleaning out 
the stallions stables
onto your sunroom rugs

~

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Thursday, 3 March 2022

PLEASE DISCUSS 1, LAUNDRY DAY IN VEIL TOWN




its 
not new

to see the world as mad
balls to the wall crazy

but is it much more obvious now ?

its laundry day in veil town

& it rabbit-punches you
down to the kitchen lino
drooling on the mornings crumbs


~


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Tuesday, 1 March 2022

WAGES OF SIN, NEWS FELCH




forty miles of mobile iron
&
bunker-buster carbon rain . . .

new batman
movie denied

ICC
naughty step
decades off

really ? come again . . ?

~

we sooth any pain
with pet memes again

numb & dumb
all for none & none for one

exceptions impossible to reward

~

i news felch

theres hindsight

but i look for james bond