Monday, 30 June 2025

CONSISTENTLY PUNCTUAL FESTIVAL MEMORIES





wood smoke / hills of bass

the memories 
remember themselves

an automatic excavation 
of a layer cake of times

~

heroic turds / a drawstring baggie

& none of it fades

just relentlessly consistently punctual

& pungent
& lurid
with a colourscape of rot







Friday, 27 June 2025

SMOKE FOR DAYS




you
got
a
rush
of crazy thoughts

in a bottle
in the fridge

but everything
is so of itself
dont you think ?
in these unspooling times 

where towers smoke 
for days & days
on a deconstructed 
hospital plateau 









Thursday, 26 June 2025

NEWS WILL EAT




you better
spend some time

looking
somewhere 
else

you fragile sun of a gun

or that news
will eat

your soft heart 
alive






Wednesday, 25 June 2025

ABOUT THE MORNING



when it comes
slouching
out of its dark hide

grey with cloud
& pale with glitter
& trojan with potential

i announce the morning
to
be
Gungabean Morning

as i have no other thoughts
& nothing else to say

~
 
a collage of eyes
from magazine paper

sees
more
than
me






Monday, 23 June 2025

ABOUT THE NIGHTSHIFT #1





there was a strange intimacy
in the dark victory
of turning the days 
against their grain

reheated nuggets / big macs / fries 
&
a leg wound sealed with parcel tape

but dawn blared banal 
too soon / too often
over 
the 
dashboard debris









Friday, 20 June 2025

OFFCUT SEGMENTARIES





my bones & brittle ideas
rattle like pills

when i am shook about
out in the porkish gales

~

rainy day opiates
in the kitchen bin now

left in the pocket
of a dead mans 
fleece lined 
winter shirt

~

premium regimental gloss

yes - premium regimental gloss

now the colour got back in










Thursday, 19 June 2025

WILDLY & SUDDENLY EXTRA AWARE




this morning
time wasnt 
feeling so sure of itself

& it softly glitched across suburbia
discombobulation for its breakfast 

~

it delivered 
one of those moments
when 
you
are 
wildly & suddenly Extra Aware 

of the roofless sky to forever

Right There outside your door

above the higgledy driveway 
& the ripe tulips 
& the crawling ivy 
& the dog walkers
the lunatic opposite
going thru his own bins again









Wednesday, 18 June 2025

WAR IS LOVER




the graffiti 
on the old rolling stock
in the purfleet sidings
in april or march of 98 
said

'the war is over
 long live the war'

& in mid 2003 or so
a capital L got added

'war is Lover'

& i still think about that
in lifes muted ad breaks
the bathroom space between things








Tuesday, 17 June 2025

ABOUT RESISTANCE




their resistance
is my relief

& hope got out of bed for once
& went for coffee & cigarettes

a classic breakfast
when youre sick with worry
about the oceans & the sea








Monday, 16 June 2025

ABOUT FREEDOM





freedom
is
like
payday bank balance

looks ok at a glance
but its all spoken for






Friday, 13 June 2025

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS, AN UNPOEM


 

'this is a public service announcement
... with guitar'


i was planning to write
a clever poem pop
rephrasing & updating
joe strummers clash song

know your rights
(all three of 'em)

for the current climate
of fuckery & balls
but i cant see
how i can improve on it








Thursday, 12 June 2025

ABOUT THE ESTATE #2




on all the 
island triangles of grass
on the corners of the t bone streets
wild high until suddenly mowed
on the wide high plateau of green
behind the squat crouching flats
there to mask the bin sheds
& the washing in the courtyard

there were council signs
in a clear beginners font 
that said - No Ball Games

it was just so mean
& i couldnt understand

would the police come ?

it seemed a very hard blow
for all the kids to weather

tho i found out
no one gave a shit









Wednesday, 11 June 2025

ABOUT THE BATHROOM BASIN




the stubble 
in the bathroom basin
clumps up into stubborn flotillas 

the strength in its numbers
is how to resist the kettling flow

well 
i got time . . . 
 
the rush of cold water
will shift them eventually

like cold water 
shifts everything eventually

if 
its blasted on
a shaved naked skull









Monday, 9 June 2025

ONLINE SHOPPING THRU YOUR LAST MEAL




all the circuses of time 
somehow gone to doom & rusting away

           ray bradbury



terminal kids
beyond-their-years medical knowledge
&
bald-headed
boil-in-the-bag 
serenity
is
tv
agitprop
to stifle our righteous rage

& they gaslight us
into a consumerist death wish

& i for one
sure feel the need
for some new shit
for when its time to die








Friday, 6 June 2025

ABOUT THE SKY #3




all the world under them
& space machines above

clouds of ivory & alabaster
& silver & slate & lead

are big like mountains
like moons 
like gods
& tell us 
be animal - be weather

scudding east & away
their friends to follow

in 
the savoy & bluebonnet 
of an opensource sky







Thursday, 5 June 2025

ABOUT THE BLACK DOG




nazis & suits
& lockheed martin
& aramco & gazprom
& the leaflets in the door

feed the black dog
panting
in
my
yard










Wednesday, 4 June 2025

INTELLIGENCE FRAG POP




all the agent report
'...obliterated sources...'

as we watch 
our games shows & stories
in the wifi sop







Tuesday, 3 June 2025

THE FIRDAY NIGHT BOOKSHOP OF THE MIND





in the friday night
bookshop of the mind
the oversoul
does a reading
just for me
when i am stretched out
debased on the sofas throw

~

& these poems
out the ether

well i can let them go
like throwing back a fish

my hands must remember
they dont need to always
stain the paper blue