THE MOVIEPLEX MACHINE

movies
are

wallpaper

for our time
in the mine

blackmail & distraction

~

got to look

keep my hand in

wallow
in the
peon marsh

~

closed hermetic seal

references
&
reaction shots

shes never too young
hes never too old

tires squeal
on gravel on grass

~

logic & plot
dumped 
into the 
dangerous bathwater

i wont ask questions
if they dont

mixed messages
i
take
to
heart

~

got to look

keep my hand in

wallow
in the
peon marsh

from globalcityholdings.com

BRACE YOURSELF

the sun rises
over its own long shadows

retracts them like claws

and 
keeps them for 7PM

too lazy for AM blackmail

~

and i am unhooked
from out my anxiety dream*

that i might enjoy another day
sat
in
the
easychair petroleum sunshine

pouring decaff
into the
gin hole

~

and stephen kings 
night mist of monsters

gave way 
to dagenhams day fog

all 
90s ghosts
and 
noughties walking dead

surprised to still be streetside
and
functional

~

the waking worries
arrive like milk used to

dirty with slugs
on the doorstep

and sanity calls
says

its just a tuesday
any old tuesday again

count your blessings
theyre in the cats eyes


~

so dance on
my gibbons

throw your shapes
in the missile test dawn

and if theres any kind 
of breakfast at all
then relax

youre still in the frying pan

~

maybe braise yourselves tho

baste your plastic kipple 
in extra-prime amazon juice

as preparation
as goodbye

for
the
overcrowding
and 
the 
torched scraps
on the blue flame free-for-all
of the stove top

from designmodo.com

*( a teeming public toilet
   rushed private mens functional stares

   and no cubicle doors close right
   and in mine there no toilet either

   so i was trying my best
   to shit out a built-up backlog 
   hovering my arse 
   over a tall chromium pedal bin

   ultimately unsuccessfully )