CIPHER

when
asked
how i used to see myself
before the fuckery unfolded

i said - as a cipher

but not because 

i see myself as a cipher
but because 

i see myself
as someone who says cipher
when asked 

how they see themselves

by their exasperated
state therapist

AIR TRAVEL OFF-CUT POPS

on a plane
it reminds me of being on a plane

& nothing else

~

i am between time
citizen of the sky
temporal & dulled

right documents / exported soul

~

with the white noise

& 

the death of expectation

well i become 

a cipher greeting dusk 

meat pondering the dawn

~

no movie any good
pills essential
nicotine in any other forms . . .

& sometimes snuff had to do

that went down well with the stewards

FORD POPS

1. POP CRY

we are absurd
and
those
who
know
write poems on post-its 
and
cry into secret gin 


2. POP WAIL

oh to be a simple cipher of a man
unburnt by bad habits
and
this
writing
germ    


3. BACKWARD POP

fags
smokes
tabs

the last bunker left
of
a
dirty life cleaned 

 

 ford popular shell from www.rodsnsods.com