ABOUT DEDICATION

those people who exaggerate
& outright lie thru their teeth
about how wasted they got
about the hell they raised
& the mess they became
to impress a different circle

really devalue the work & effort
the dedicated rest of us made
to get really bent & derelict
after-hours in the fields & marsh
in the fog with the cattle
hysterical & leaping
at the heavy blur of the moon

 

FADE OUT WITH BACKWARD STEPS

pub closing
put me out 
up the peasants hill
in the 
estuary nights 
floating satanic grey

i - shortcut fuckwit
embraced
weeknight
marshside
subventure

wet got in my socks
& work in 6 hours
one thousand miles away

~

cattle 
in the 
soft walls
of 
heavy marsh mist

elephant shadows
contrived 
as the sea

they fade out with backward steps

~

i look for Nothing
maybe Somethings there

war residue 
pillboxes
squat stoic
&
fade out with backward steps

ghost farmers late night
heifer hunt tractor lights
head east
in an
up & down 
smear smudge 
mission jag

~

i am 
in a 
bathroom bin
cottonwool ball

boots
a
memory

knee down 
all gone

faded out
with
each
backward step

now 
all directions 
the same

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