KEN BENOBI

there was a man i used to work with
looked like obi wan
if obi wan was five foot nothing
with pale navy tattoos
under the white pubes
foaming up his forearms

i called him ken benobi
but not on the 
Herald Of Free Enterprise 
disaster anniversary 
when he would go to the darkside

swearing about french lawyers
swearing about euro courts
gripping our arms for emphasis
with a grip like a vise

he would be in no mood 
for my nick names
and it definitely wasnt the day
for me to realise and comment
sixs week late
that his ken benobi 
beard was long gone 

from bbc.co.uk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_

Herald_of_Free_Enterprise

OFFCUT POPS 2

with an
ambulance rug
the cop shields
THEM
from mutant swarms 
and flashbulbs

shields US
from
guilty eyes
faithless mistake

whats NOT in there
left for court sketchers
to pastel over

big house
solution
so often isnt

~

the rivers
WERE
the same and
always different

now-
crested
with
miniature
plastic

murky and agony

heave like oiled beach muscles
in
a
flash flood anniversary
petrol station bouquet

mercury trout
imbibed a
fukushima gene
that
put
the
rainbow out

from gennadysworld.blogspot.uk

FIVE OR TEN POPS

1.

this guy sat outside costa

smokes a roll up
fat as his thumb

stirs his coffee
for a full five minutes

stares hard into space

ignores totally
the woman sat with him

and i dont like to judge

but i bet
hes due in court



2a.

i wonder about dying 

and i wonder about not

and i wonder 
bout all the things
i will never know

i hope i wont die behind on my box sets
or
croak
halfway thru
a
balls-out novel
of
addiction and murder



2b.

and in 100yrs
will computers
be thinking liquid 

and hide from us
in the sea ?



3a.

i wake
and smell the day

it smells like shit
that chemical shit

farmers . . .

i start again

i see a robin
in the rosemary patch

i see a dragon fly
on the rose bush pole

and you see the problem is
i dont know what to do
with 
that



3b.

so i write it down

file it
for 
posterity
whatever that is

and i thank lordfuck in heaven
for
gardens

by sitting 
my fleshbag of gas in one
and
staring out my head



4.

and outside
deaths opinion

i wonder dont all weep
in the weakness
of every dawn



5a.

i can write poems

mechanically
apparently

and time was
they were an
olympic event

but please dont ask me 
to understand the gas bills

seemingly
random

list
of

give
and
take



5b.

utility bills
are like 
predictive text

i explain to the cat before breakfast



5c.

imagine if what we paid for a shirt
was
based
on
someones assumption
of
how
many
shirts
we would buy that year ?

i ask the cat after breakfast



5d.

my shirt might even be free !

and
well 

the cat
is snoring now

in wise response

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