PUBLIC RELATIONS VICTORIOUS

scripted history

chase the bone

media storm is repeating drone

follow follow follow
the black car with flowers

on
the
death
tv

~

generational brainwashing
held strong in the anorak lines

they think
she is
their own
council
estate
granny

wedge a flag in your hoof

stick a fork in it

im done

STRANGE DUCKLINGS

look at them strange ducklings !

he says
on the pm bus
our shift over early

look at them out there !
where do you even
buy an anorak like that ?

he
laughs out loud
with
genuine glee

i love finishing this early !

he says
nose to the window

you never see them strange ducklings 
out and about
when
us
normals
are
do you ?

and his laugh
changes into
a
kind
of
whoooop of triumph
as
he
spots a man on a street corner
buttoned up all wrong
in an 80s ski jacket
fiddling
with
two pairs of headphones
and 
a 
brown vinyl shopping trolley
like
an
old
woman
might
have
used
twenty years ago

from ebay.co.uk

THREE POSSIBLE REPETITIONS

SEASONS NEVERMIND

i
write
without
drink

no one ever did a harder thing

and out there
autumn
dies
in
gold



TOMORROW IS A PLACE ON EARTH

i
thought
if
i
stopped drinking
i
would
die
in
the
flatness of the world

but i didnt



ETERNAL STORIES

the footlights now
are
a
nuclear glow

the actors

desperate

carry
on

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