NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS ETC PT 2

healthy better choices

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colours

make preparations

be still

with limited supply
  decrease demand

free then deploy
  nanbots

be me more

water . . .

  a deity ?

smile in the mist

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS ETC PT 1

not all films will be shitty

sleep properly

  like a person

become iron man

global justice

paint roses

neighbourhood patrols

do as the cat does

increase citizens arrest record

build a sofa

FOOTNOTES TO YOUR SHOW

relight
the fire
in the core
of the creating cherub

& laugh
laugh !
at the simplest things

reality be damned
&
news headlines 

only footnotes
to your show

LASHINGS OF MAD MAD SAUCE

if defeat

feels snug

bulk up 

on anger pie

three times 

every day

its investment grit

in the oyster bank

that dividends

a stretchy belt

& lashings of

mad mad sauce

REANIMATE THE CHEESE

sitting down

trying to have

a brilliant idea

with the old bread

of my mind

~

all i manage 

is to lightly toast 

the poor sandwich 

to fake freshness

& reanimate the cheese

THEN CARLOS RAN

one shot 

& the tokarev 

jammed up after

& that one bullet 

bounced off

the philtrum

of the man 
in the bath

bounced !

& then carlos ran

from a bathroom

& into history

INDECENT EXPOSURE

todays
emperors
know
they
are not
wearing
any clothes

but dont bother speaking up child

the weavers went to eton
with half the front bench

WALKING ROUND BEECHCOMBE

chocka rentaskips
on stubby driveways
&
a loosened kerbstones
miniature rockfall
&
the leaves are golden shadows
spread under the naked trees
&
the lights on distant cranes
only white flares in the mist
&
a single bin is a dumb sentinel
at the edge
of the stretch
of wet field

~

i imagine a smudged murmuration
the wavy shape of a question mark

over the bowling green
i used to hop the fence to

to lay there
high on the best grass

A NECESSARY FORT

morning me
will thank 

last night me

for the chores

he did compel 

& it is not pitiful
to fool & manufacture
such miniature peace
in the face of chaos

& flaky meat puppetry

as clutter 

is often
anxiety now

when it used to be
a necessary fort

FENCED GLEN

the big tele
its violent stories
& repackaged myths

& when i step out
on the crunch of leaves
any legend is possible

i have food to scatter
for the wild animals

we know here

in our fenced glen
of central planning
carpenter forest