UNCHANGED GHOSTS

in
my
day-dream half-sleep
old 
friends
knock on the door

same 501s

same DMs
same everything

small talk
comes easy
&
it 
feels 
like truth 
in
my
heartbox

FLASHBACKS IN TESCO

high street rush-bustle 7 PM
i spend £1.80 in a Tesco Extra
i am called LUVVIE

and

jim is in there
jim is in a rush
jim doesnt see me
theres grey in his beard
and weight on his waist

we went to college together 1990
he wore DMs then
hes wearing DMs now
he claimed to have a lucky testicle back then
hes got 2 kids now
maybe 3

i remember one lunchtime
when
we
tried
to
eat
a whole mormon bible

high street rush-bustle 7 PM
fag smoke drifts out an SUV window
by 
the new build on the old dairy land

i go sit in the car
wait for 8 o clock love train
watching
moving
faces
gurn

from theguardian.com

RUSSIA / GLASS / FLAWS

1. FLAWS

theres flaws in this vessel 

like
the
bubbles
in
cheap
glass 

forever floating / photograph still

a negative space blow-show
dependent
on
the 
whole


2. RUSSIAN PEPSI

there
were
bubbles in the cheap glass 
in 
the
Pepsi bottles of Russia '91 - i was young 
and 
not yet too wrong
breathing
awful
fags
in the pick-pocket market 

between the snow and oversize receptions 
the 
air-chant was a new hue

and
i 
walked 
amazed and dazed and brain-busted 
in DMs 
and 
envy denim
at 
church interiors and subway depths
and
i
remember
the
warped hotel windows 16 floors over the Om
distressing
the
view
like a heat-haze or a Stargate
that
made
the
frozen water wobbly sad and grey


3. LENIN
 
flaws 
are
both
beginning and end 
of 
shadow stories 
and
struggles like symphony

light bleed and lens flare and Persian rugs

more interesting by a megaton
than
the
cold
glacier 
of
perfection

dead Lenin - preservation intention
of
chemical juice
and
death meccano
only
rebuilt a man
in 
state approved yellows

 

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