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a poem or pic a day until I die or dont; the online home of Ford Dagenham
Friday 3 May 2024
THE CREATIVE PUSH & PULL
you got to push it out
like birth
from need
from heart
forced by guts
out the valve you tore
& you must pull too
with exposure
laying bait
& fishing & trawling & mining
& if all that is
is a weak fart
on low hanging fruit
well i still did it
Thursday 2 May 2024
IN ITS BUDDHIST GAZE
& this little house
sat on its
estuary clay
it almost has a face
if i would turn
swift enough
to see
see its
calm look
of time & bricks
see the stoicism
in its buddhist gaze
see all its needs
that can wait
its says
dont worry
Tuesday 30 April 2024
SHRIEK ON
shriek on
shrill songbirds
dont let
our swearing
stop you
we are hungover
from
questions
~
& the fulltime bell
will surely peal soon
on another mornings
cold taxi minds
Friday 26 April 2024
YEAH WELL I HATE YOU
all
the
madness
& horror
& bad skullfuckery
would make sense
could
make sense
if god would show up
& say
yeah well i hate you
but he
cant even
do that
Thursday 25 April 2024
ESSENTIAL EMBRYONIC
getting drunk
on
the authenticity
of the outsider
o
n the sidelines
of the mindgame
dance & buffet
in those essential embryonic times
was
a bunker
& soapbox
unassailable
& ready with razors
MICE OF OURSELVES
'You sound like youre from nowhere.'
David Goodis, The Burglar
we have made
mice of ourselves
afraid of
the machines above
no mind
the cannibal holocaust
behind the pastel dream
of the faded ads
on end terrace
masonry gables
sky pie for supper
in the babel shade
Tuesday 23 April 2024
SO PORTABLE
plans dashed
by the cat
asleep in the chair
as comfortable
as if
he took his bones out
so portable
but
immoral
to disturb
Monday 22 April 2024
CHALK & CHARCOAL
thick green roots
sutured
to the red brown brick
theres zen
in the weeding
in the cleanse
geese honk
in the chalk & charcoal
smudge of sky
black dogs
tow their people
in the uncertain wind
Tuesday 16 April 2024
THE KETTLE & THE GARDEN CHAIR
think it
fart it
get it down
autoflo
leaving
the
head
out
of
it
one filed report
worth two
in the draft
& if it all sucks
call it gravity
& move past it
to the kettle
& garden chair
autoflo
tree awning
& hysterical birds
the bugs on table patrol
Monday 15 April 2024
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Saturday 13 April 2024
SILVER PROTEIN
the snail
leaves a trail
of carbohydrate mucus
& silver protein
essential
for
communication
like we leave
optic fibre
& burnt tar
essential
for
communication
if youve lived
out of
your car
Friday 12 April 2024
FREEDOM TASTING LIGHT
bmx on the streets
moving
moving
moving
solo rider making time
hunting peace in motion
streetlights blinking on
teardrop tubing
mx brakes
faux-italian cursive
on my jumpers tit
the freedom tasting
light
when i tasted it
Thursday 11 April 2024
PADDED OUT WITH DEJA VU
forever has lost its reach
&
is padded out with deja vu
&
i
repeat myself
repeat myself
repeat myself
going round
like a clock
goes round
bloody allergy nostrils
flaring again
in spring again
at the redolence of murdered grass
Tuesday 9 April 2024
RICH TEA & LUCOZADE
the rain is abrupt
here then over - a splashdown
maybe the gods
are testing their plumbing
they might have
a hard water problem too
~
& the traffic
going by on the wet top
sounds warm
like rich tea biscuits
taste warm
when youre belly sick
& self medicating
with original
red gold lucozade
& thorazine
Monday 8 April 2024
MOTEL OF THE MIND
like on magnetic tape
the
flock wallpapers
delicate fibres
recorded the essence & lexicon
of
guests
long checked out
~
&
these ghosts & echoes
go about their days
in a looping playback
of overlapping samples
forever overbooking
me with memories
in the motel of the mind
Sunday 7 April 2024
SIXTY TWO MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE
his hand
is held flat
& reaching out
palm down
at least two yards
before he places it
on the bookstore railing
& swivels in the door
maybe this is to show
how he is always
one step ahead
or is
just
the
actors whimsey
&
this
was my only
takeaway
from
a 2 hour
&
62 million dollar
movie
Friday 5 April 2024
REGULAR HORROR 14
but school was there
like clouds are there
monochrome uniform
monochrome chalkboard
cornering us in a spotlight
in the naked lunch of it all
solo runners on trial
in the playground courtroom
of fluid cliques
invisible laws
Thursday 4 April 2024
NARCISSISM FOR SURVIVAL
among other news
robots direct & patrol
the killing grounds hellscape
no wonder this generation
embraces the improved reality
of the photo filter drop down
their white picket fence
is in the handheld glass
that soft mirror
their minds can mould
& impossible bills
are piled up just so
& backlit as a backdrop
for another instagram shot
of a perfect lunch sandwich
Tuesday 2 April 2024
REGULAR HORROR 6
nights obsidian shine
allows
dawns
grey
washcloth
in
like a parent
loosing a game
with a kid
on purpose
for a quiet life
Monday 1 April 2024
REGULAR HORROR 10
despite all the regular horror
on the phone & in the mail
i am getting up
when i can get up
& taking my coffee
in the gardens
lush overgrow
well fed &
medicated
clothed & unbombed
thanks to the coincidence gods
of the fortune crapshoot melee
Saturday 30 March 2024
FLOWER GAGA
their weak colours
trying to pop
under the colourless sky
the pale daffodils
all face west
& into the rain
they exhibit
the dumb bluntness
of brainwash
& the faded appearance
of sweatshop knockoffs
weak unbranded dye
there is one tho
stood shorter
& rude with yellow
& i feel like . . .
. . . i feel like
i should rescue it
yes
i will do that now
Friday 29 March 2024
FRESH BAKED CRUMBS
was feeling
well
grim
about it all
till the sun came out
like spilled yellow paint
& my wife came home
with fresh bread
we ate on the bedspread
by the sleeping cat
miniature snores
& impossible fur
flaked
with fresh baked
crumbs
Thursday 28 March 2024
TRIUMPH GAS TANK
the universe
reaches
from inside of you
to wherever forever
& i would kick myself
if my time tickered out
before its secrets were out
& it built
a bonfire
of paradigms
& steve mcqueen returned to light it
like he returned
with free razors & bulk soap
to
his
old
kids home
one red shirt collar tip
pocking out
a mustard sweaters crew neck
beat up triumph gas tank
between his denim legs
hollywood in his hip pocket
Monday 25 March 2024
THE POSSIBILITY OF TEARS
i hear the song
in my head
so i find the song
& i play the song
& i dont cry to the song
so much as
explore
the possibility of tears
as my skin goes chill all over
& i journey then
inside & out
visiting the happened
the real
the not
& the could be
Sunday 24 March 2024
REAL OUT HERE TODAY
the man
sat in the garden again
plastic zen
amen
~
waiting
with a used canvas
for the roses
to bloom
& when the pigeons come
noisy & graceless
he notes in pencil
on his scribble pad
how real it is out here today
Friday 22 March 2024
EESENTIAL WORK, REPORT 239
last december
i audited
the draft folder
in the word blog
there was almost 200 unfinished
essential reports waiting on filing
& i have been working them
& i have been filing them
tweaking & teasing
then launching
these origami boats
on the gigahertz ride
& now today
well
theres 238
so i will never be done
& how perfect is that
Thursday 21 March 2024
DEVASTATION
every day is devastation
but sometimes
a heatwave
will unbleach
a coral reef stretch
& theres colour
back in the sea there
again
slim pickings in the valley
slow harvest in the mall
jellies thriving
in an atoll lagoon
Monday 18 March 2024
THE CEMETERY SQUIRRELS
time is hallucinating
in the fever ether
& again
i cosplay a person
boots on /
face out
meat tower saying morning
draped in stitched cotton
& zips
~
the cemetery squirrels
run from their tails
in the thick grass
& tall stone
& i rest under trees
where the sky cannot see me
&
the warplanes
stay away
in my phone
Friday 15 March 2024
CREASED LIKE A BRAIN
sometimes its ok
& the tv
dovetails into my mind
with near cnc precision
from worlds away
to my time here
~
when mostly
it only puttys up the gap
badly & shoddily
& without due care
like i did
behind the radiator
in the hallway
2007
wall all creased like a brain
Wednesday 13 March 2024
A LOGICAL WAY
we
render
our
animal experience
into cannibal
tallow
to
ease
the
grit
in the bearings
of the carbolic wheel
in the mad hope of pearl
peace
& a logical way
Tuesday 12 March 2024
STUCK TO FLUID GUNS
as a surface dweller
i find
the caverns of deep thought
stifling & frightening & a trap
bereft as i assume they must be
of real light & good air
& the tvs
clever
movie twists & tricks
of in-jokes & easter eggs
stink of vanity
to me now
it wasnt always this way
i am in function retreat
& i stick to my fluid guns
Monday 11 March 2024
BROADCAST TINNITUS
my
essential work
of
filing reports
is
hampered now
by
the heavy static
of
broadcast tinnitus
&
the nerve damage
from the death tv
Sunday 10 March 2024
LETTER FLAPS COUGH
i arrange
the
fruit of the detritus rain
&
the paper tiles
of the letter flaps
cough
into an approximation
of
amateur tasseomancy
with a hope & ennui yin yang
spinning
electric
inside my ribs
Friday 8 March 2024
NOT EVEN CLOSE
i would say
to denial murphy
& the yoga crew
to the green powder pushers
at the supplement bazaar
to denmark & finland
& the uk dwp
'you come try walk a mile in my shoes'*
but the whole point is
i cant do that either
not even close
* please note
i own a selection of good shoes
& they are not wearing out
any time soon i can tell you
Thursday 7 March 2024
PHONE WANTS ALL THE JOBS
need a buffer
before the day
a refresh / a defrag / a purge
& tho the phone
wants the job
wants
all
the jobs
i know a shower will do it best
wet ritual rebirth
so then
i can
attempt
myself
again
clean parts i hope will
fool the mind
Monday 4 March 2024
THAT HARBINGE SLEEP (A BRACKET GAGAKU)
the oatmilk of human kindness
has gone up 30 pence
& at night
oh yes
there i am
( undistracted & translucent
in the phone screen afterglow )
worrying
( the rubble children
& the orbiting star net cage )
& hallucinating
( my too-vivid self
limping out on the wild beaches )
&
waiting
( hunched then stretched
hunched then stretched )
for
the coded
lightning flashes
that harbinge 'sleep'
Saturday 2 March 2024
HAPPY & NAKED EGG
stuff your empty jargon
up
your
brand
identity
& leave me be
filing my reports
under a gibbous moon
dig your traffic holes
under the old stones
if you must
why not ?
its a small stupid
in a lunatic world
just leave me be
under a china sky
a happy & naked egg
laid out in the onion grass
plum blossom falling
on the slo mo
of thermals
& the southern breeze
Friday 1 March 2024
MAKING SPACE MAKING EYES
stupid time
stretching us out like it does
time
knows
it was 1989 once
but it stretched it out
& stretched it all thin
& made space
made
eyes
made swiss cheese of it
so the horror
can get in
&
the people
can fall out
Thursday 29 February 2024
COBWEB ELBOWS
i worry
that memories
may degrade
with each needy use
like a favourite jumper
already skeined thin
at its cobweb elbows
& i worry
i dont
husband them enough
like maybe
i should be
~
but still
the
fallen garden apples
gone sweet with rot
& all the flies there
conjure crystal
childhood moments
of paddington ringer t's
& moccasin slippers
gone slippy & shiny underneath
& still
the supermarket shower gel
of jungle & sport & sage
mirrors those mornings
long ago
when
things
were
different
enough to count
Tuesday 27 February 2024
GONE FOR A BURTON
when
inspiration & flow
have gone for a burton
&
i feel like
i only know
Three Whole Words
well
its time for grunt work
time to copy & paste
out
the
archives dust
&
make a new thing
without pressure
from play
or to sit
just sit & sit & sit
still as water stone
in the drift of the world
Monday 26 February 2024
HOT CIRCLE
data scraping
its
own
bots
l
ife hacks
&
inflammatory
blue tick screeds
the
server farms
on
the
edge of town
work
up
a
raging thirst
that
leaves
the
people
panicking
for
bottled Highland Spring
manipulated &
misinformed
&
saturated
with
pointless
choice
Friday 23 February 2024
IT SHOULD BE IN A MUSEUM
he goes down the steps
& she rushes to follow
& he stops on the steps
& it catches her out
& she goes back up the steps
as he starts down again
catching her out again
& they both stop
& she lifts his hat brim
& he is preoccupied
& she projects fun
& he acquiesces
& with his hands
still in his pockets
he sticks out an elbow
for her to loop her arm inside
& together &
in tune
for now at least at last
they go
for a drink
in washington dc
1936
shia lebouf
nine months away
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