ABOUT THE BLACK DOG

nazis & suits
& lockheed martin

& aramco & gazprom

& the leaflets in the door

feed the black dog
panting
in
my
yard

SIMPLE LIFE CAN BE

cigarettes
never tasted
so good
as when
a black dog
camped
in every room


~

shaving my dome

well
it just makes me feel better

like sharpening a knife


~

you drink at night
& lie in a field
& theres the stars
how simple
life can be

HAIR BY NICKY CLARKE

babylon & the black dog

bogart in bohemia

theyre talking to denzel

for the movie

my ideas lose their way

in the unpaved quagmire
of a spiralling mind

&

my thoughts do

what cigarette smoke does

breathed out in the fog

the butcher of bakersfield 

betty boop & barberella

in b&q in brent cross

hair by nicky clarke

11/10/11

ten years dry today
as far as i can tell

time is flexible & loose
& the date looked binary

but still i could
ABSOLUTLEY FUCKING MURDER A PINT OF GIN
for breakfast

like with a handful 

of flat tonic-ice

for civility & delusion

but i wont - i cant
other faults have surfaced
in the decade in question

& the black dog is waiting anyway
dry humping some other leg
but with eyes on me

photo - Dream Pub from the Dagenham Archive