THREE MINIPOPS

there something
nice about knowing

theres classy venues
out there by the seaside

where OMD
still gig

~

in the drought
you wait for rain

at the typer
window & desk

battened down
in the newspeak gale

~

scotch was

a benevolent fury
of self-heroism
on the cusp of heaven

back

in
the
bottle shop doorway

FOUND LIST 6

 

linux

pillow cases

call pdsa

edit lists

win

email james ellroy

text all

remember ?

tidy desk

back up

i like jam (strawberry)

photo Mashville Skyline from the Dagenham Archive

COVID POPLING

 & 
 underhand 

 underdesk 

 underchecked 

 foul fuckery 

 will show 
 by xmas 

 in those 
 money market markers 

 of 
 confidence number myth 

 & 

 the used up canaries 

 uncaged now 

 well they can no longer sing 

from amust.com.au

MOANOLOGY 2

i got too many computers.  
dont know HOW i got so many computers.
i been GIVING them away.

try telling that to a ten year old me as he watched in horror and awe at S***** P**** kicking his vic20 to death on the school yard concrete.  
that was 198? - deep in teacher strikes and the schools on fire ! grey smoke damaged text books to learn about crop rotation and the War of Some Roses for the rest of our school sentence.

you HAVE to go too.  
dont you ?  
illegal not too.  
but after ?  
not allowed in AT ALL.  
i'd love to go sit at those crummy desks.  
walk those halls.  
remembering.  
and feeling relief its all over.

i did once.  
after the pub.  
we hoped a fence.  
walked round the buildings.  
tried a window.  
unlocked.  
we climbed in.  
sat in our old seats as best we could remember them.  
had a nose up the corridor.  
them left and went to smoke weed on the hockey pitch.

silent alarm wasnt there ?

see blue lights flashing off concrete walls.  
torches swinging round the blocks.  
we went off the hockey pitch to the hedgerows next to the farmland. crouched down.  
watching.  
SO pleased we'd left. 
and not sauntered deeper in.

cant go back.

anyway.  
computers.  
i use them but still i get a cramp up my back stairs that i have to WRITE out with pencils and paper.

stationary.  
it even smells good.

and the best place to keep books is the bathroom.  
did you know that ?  
stops them drying out and the glue going dry and yellow and wrong like all my old Bond paperbacks.

from www.thebookbond.com

TABLE

table
table
table

28 tiles for a top

used
to
sit
in
nans
kitchen

under a thick plastic table cloth

now its my desk

and

somehow

freed

A.M. RITUAL

  i 
get up slow
open curtains to winter sun
and
blow my nightmares out my nose
  
  i
sort
out
the
cat 
hes knocked his water over again
  
  i
sit at the dusty desk 
got small coffee
south london blues on the player
rest my fingers on the keys
  
  i
swear at the cheap lighter
busted or empty or something
sun comes in as stripes thru the blinds 
  
  can 
  i 
channel anything at all ?
  and
how it will sound
when
  i
read
it
back this evening 
  when
  i
  am 
  all 
different in the hurrying night ?

  

from casatnations.wordpress.com

CLINIC RECEPTION

the womans face is somehow unset
like
poured cement

she
sits
behind a desk
splashed with personal flair
thats
a
window
to
her home

as is accepted convention
i say my name and time

and
wonder
how
i
seem
to
her

from www.dreamstime