Showing posts with label drag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drag. Show all posts

Friday, 21 April 2023

IT WAS THE SUIT DID IT




without telling you 
my calendar age
please take my word for it
when i say
i saw myself 
there in the the mirror today
for maybe the first time
saw not only
the approximation
of a full grown man
but
one
also
still
deep in the uphill drag 
on 
the 
tilt & slide of the earth

~

it was the suit did it
pinning me down
in a pigeon hole
&
pulling my frays inside






Monday, 20 February 2023

FRAG 39



yesterday
is
a
heavy drag cigarette cherry
glowing an awful red

in
your
pump-thump pump-thump
thump-thump heart-fist

clenched like something shrunk










Monday, 16 April 2018

WRITING POST




relegated crowded corners
empty of troubadours and friends

suck it
use it

yellow page overspill
damp with repurposed
crooners and enforcers

a tigress
on a tv morning sofa
calls time out
on the endless night

suck it
use it

receive a writing post
in the crapshoot fallout
of academy failure

standard issue black dog
humps at your leg

suck it
fake it

coronation crown
of derelict farm mist
laid without ceremony
on your soft tissue fog bank

abandoned mental ward gloom
loams and foams
where heartwood should be

suck it
wear it

rattle your rockets
in your mfi silo
and 
launch nasa challenge 
into the giddy
mouth-breather wind

and if you find it all 
a stagnant informant pool
with nets and mops and drags 
stacked in veteran formation

suck it
use it

and pin old dirt
like beacons like badges
on
the
new sores
rich vein
within




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pic from geography.org.uk