GOT NOWHERE WITH IT

in the cafe
i had coffee
at the counter
then decanted it
into a takeout cup

& took it with me
up to the field
where i stood
& looked downhill
at what i could see of the river
flowing silver behind the cranes

& thought about it all

& got nowhere with it

it has nowhere to go

BUDAPEST DAYS

burgers for two

outside seating 

wintertime

&

steams rising up off the bath lake

the zoo & magic fox behind us

~

you touched a sloths hand

i had one cigarette a day

your pistol jammed

i learnt the double-tap

~

cafe photo on the wall here now

wrought iron

sun lit

cat dignity

oh those big window

phrase book

old bus

days

from budapestbylocals.com

FULL WISDOM

Great Wisdom
& 
Full Knowledge

hip hop body-pop
at
my
picked fingertips
& tremble teasing
on
the
tip
of
my
dumb tongue

when all i am doing is -

observing
the
ancient
wrinkled
greatest
generation
have
tea from a pot
in a 
homeware shop cafe

so of course it doesnt last

the promise
was
maybe
only
a
caffeine mirage

&
all
thats
left
is
gums
spittle

& a 100 shades of beige

from hwilensang.blogspot.com

PICASA MADRIGALS, NEW JOB OBSERVATION

2018 OFFCUT POPS 3

NO CHOICES

hes gone

where they all go

when they go

see you there

why not
    why not 
        why not ?



SMELLS ME DIESEL

the
cat
manages to make
a
noise just like
hydraulic brakes

& my memory
smells me diesel
in overseas snow

till he farts
like an arsehole

blocked drain now
after heavy rain

& pa gets out
the dyno rods again



ENGLISH CAFE BLUES

in
the
cafe

queues
just
me

its english theyre speaking
but its not english i hear

he NEEDS coffee
they say
they laugh

i am a thousand miles away

my mind made
of cushions

& unable to explain

~

i sit-

well its a controlled collapse

& the view is exactly arse height 

&
i
wonder
what
regular secrets
all those under-grundies
have
seen

its a grundy parade
by the calendar stand

& i write it down

now this english im writing
is english i understand

a grundy parade
& mr calendar man

it makes sense on paper
if anywhere can

from flickr.com

PICASA MADRIGALS - SLOW CAFE & CLEAR OCEAN

CAFE MADRIGAL 1 - STOCKHOLM ON TABLE 12

motormouth woman 

her mother & her husband 
held captive

beyond stockholm 

doing their job
they absorb her million words
like soft meat baffles

eating
in 
tolerant 
absent 
silence

saturday morning
table number 12

on number 10
i am in a bubble
with a mug of joe

waiting on something
to explode

from brisbanetimes.com.au

POP #1010

your wet motor 
approaches byproduct obsolescence 
in 
the 
loam of mechanical dawn

hail the fickle union
of fantastic wahey

bleak oils weak future 
must but forgive us now

and pull up another chair

for another soft meat side order
naked
in
the
complicit cafes continuum spiral
of 
neon nostalgia happy days 

gimp limp disguised
in revival shoes

from timesunion.com

DEAD MANS TWEETS

FUTURE ME

i am 124

i am in some 
automated precinct cafe
deep in airstrip one

i pay an army surplus drone
thru the nose for real coffee

i stroke my effort of beard
and 
gesture outside
and
say

i remember when all this
all THIS
was landfill

i
laugh
to
myself

donor card in my hand

hungry for the past
and
a 
massive heart attack

from discovermagazine.com

ANOTHER CAFE / HAIKU

calm quiet sideshow 

          calm ?
          this early
it is  yes

cutlery like bells

pic from direct.asda.com

THE MENUS ARE IN CODE

i   
dream 
to 
travel in a cowards comfort
and
drink bitter coffees
in
the 
cafes of the world

to
smell the new fumes
of
the similar hatchbacks
in
its revolution squares
where
feral birds fight innocent fries
and
historys shadow is cast improbable
on
old 
stones

smoking
always 
smoking
al fresco like the rain

budapestbylocals.com

FRIDAY A.M. CAFE POP

upstairs cafe
soft chairs
red walls 
window cracked open - for flyover fumes
sky grey - fades in pockets to blue
thin brown toast
small strong coffee 
and
i
cant
see THRU enough of the world today
the
glossy
propaganda
cafe
pic
of 
smiling blonde family
unavoidable over the cutlery buckets 
EATS into me 
and
in
the
toilet
there
were
controls you dont even have to TOUCH 

 from mcphee.com

POP POPS

1. AIRWAVE OF FM OPIUM

uselessly i am in a cafe

radios
on
like
anywhere 

its
soft bleats 
canned icing
on
the
day turd

too early for anything and summers over 

 from thehungryhousewife.com

 

2. GO IN ON YOUR NEW BIKE, LIKE THAT WILL HELP ANYTHING

theres wet cheeks
on
school kids
dressed in sober adult black
and
ushered by force / relief / love
back
into
the
school machine

 from medicaldaily.com

3. ONLY ME HERE, HOW IS THE CHEF SO BUSY ?

useless in a cafe
i
stare
at
sausage pastries
and
a
full tupperware of eggs 

its all
naked
soft
somehow disgusting 

from pinterest.com

4. EXPATS MISS BIRTHRIGHT DREK

tiny
englands corner
tries
out
an
autumn suns ballshine
for
size 

finds it weak / cold
and
fitting 

 

from rebloggy.com

CAFE BLUES

silent cottage 
with
small windows in the corners 
like a childs drawing 
almost
invisible
behind a mask of bursting green
is
old
as 
the 
peasants revolt
and
backs
away
from the mapped flat blacktop 
like
something proud
and afraid

it shames the cafes
plastic
table
covers - shining prints of food 
like
flat swimming headaches
and
i
sit there 
in a bubble chatter of radio
and
cooking crockery clatter
and
try to write something 
about the day
the world
and
i

 wat tyler country park from simplonpc.co.uk

TESCO

tesco 8 AM
the
cafe
slowly fills
with
pale denim men
needing toast
tired
with
the 50% off rail
where
everything
is
small
or
for
kids going skiing

well i've walked into rituals here
systems
and
routine
of
'help for heroes hoodies'
and
supermarket levis

big
windows
let in the estuary light
but
theyre
frosted
to hide the elevated section
of
the
A132

from yelp.co.uk