LISTEN TO YOUR BODY

  if
  i
listened to my body

listened to its 

  wail & warp & whine

listened to its 

  white noise telegraph

 

& its desperate morse

  click-clacking in my dry bones grind

like they say that you should do

then

i 

would be sleeping

  or drifting in the inbetween

on the toilet

  but imagining a starship command chair

eating carbs

  

  but hounded by light salad sanity

tickertape headline news 

  on the bog sheets roll

amateurly sculpting

  unconsciously phallic art

  with 

  my

  toes

  & 

  cheap modelling clay

lightly opiated to soft kingdom come

photo - Simple Street Deconstructed, courtesy of the Dagenham Archive

ALUMINIUM CHURCH

we point our metal rods skyward

to catch the stories

we glom with glazzies

over carrion & carbs


its science worship
why not ?

& manufactured prayer

SUPERMARKET AS MUSEUM, OBSERVATIONS

doing our tick-tock time
in the universal double-click mine

beige blims & the backpack herd
are moon pulled & wind blown
ad compelled & credit shelled

before gift shop cost shock
& 
canteen disappointment


~


i am in the car park 
window cracked
waiting on rain & relief
eyes on lookout
for the cigarette police
& 
the meat world medicine man



~



coffee meet carbs
i say

i am criminally under-glitzed 
in the semantic last days

fiztrovias a memory
red castles a dream
midnight missing me 

they put suicide nets now
round the factory waists

you need a clearer sign ?

& tho our ferdinand
is likely legion  
& remains unclear
he must be in the firmware
bombs in the spam

from lovemoney.com

OLD WISDOM

best do
what your
body 
tells you

says 
the 
neighbour
lady

shes
hissing 
at the cats
on her lawn

but

i
say
to
the
neighbour
lady

if i 
listened to
my body

i would 
be asleep
on the toilet
all the time
choking down carbs

pic from vertical-slice.net

LISTEN TO YOUR BODY

they all say

listen to your body
itll tell you what it needs

and they all say this
with a kind of wise nod
i hope i never imitate

if
i
really
listened to my body
tell me what it needs

i would be on the toilet
asleep eating carbs

~

so i take
what my body says
with a pinch of salt
wise cynicism 
and a heavy veto

and i listen to the wind
and i worry about the rain
and i keep the cellar door open

writing things
loving things
mocking things
with empathy and kindness
and the meanness of a clown

in northern europe 1984

watching
classic
sci fi
with
a
childs wonder
and
the hindsight
of a god

from uk.ign.com

DIET HAIKU / CAT POP