ABOUT DAMASCUS

age & its rising descent

play at profundity today

like a road to damascus moment

if damascus is the corner shop

& the moment 

a rest at the corner

on a low brick wall

under strung cables 

buzzing from signals 

caught from the sky

THIS PLANET EARTH

this planet earth
this space jewel-

its like i grabbed
the wrong flavour crisps
in the corner shop

and i opened them now
and cant take them back

you know ?

but eat them anyway

under a cloudless sky
of clear cyanide blue

from zverovich.net

A TALE OF ORDINARY FOLKS

the young guy in the corner shop
dont
like
dogs
at all

hates it if they get in there

even if theyre tiny or old

so 
sometimes
i will carry them out for him
when 
i 
am 
in 
there
squinting at the headlines
and
buying
crisps and rizla

i dump them on the pavement
where
he
will
watch them on his cctv
with
a
wary
eye

after i firmly closed the door

from www.littleangelsrescuebg.org

POETS ! 1

poets !
write like youd talk
like
how
youd
explain
whatever
to
someone

maybe clean it up
like
for
a
child
or
a
parent
or
dumb it down for dockers

we're talking inclusion 

keep it real - corner shop real / aldi real
bad job / good job
divorce and love real
but
loose some LIKES and some WHATEVERS
and
slang is AOK
if
you dont depend on it 
for cheap effect

dont fake it is what i'm saying -
keep
the jargon on the 
downlow
use words you 
already know - we're not salesmen or lawyers !
this
is
NO CON !

throw flowers on the bones of course
if they are good bones
but
dont stuff the skull 
with 
bouquets

and
dont
forget
this should be the common ground
of
understandable
usable
truisms
for
sick kings and hardy paupers alike

from htmlgiant.com