THE FIRDAY NIGHT BOOKSHOP OF THE MIND

in the friday night

bookshop of the mind

the oversoul
does a reading
just for me

when i am stretched out

debased on the sofas throw

~

& these poems
out the ether

well i can let them go

like throwing back a fish

my hands must remember

they dont need to always

stain the paper blue

THE CREATIVE PUSH & PULL

you got to push it out
like birth
from need
from heart
forced by guts
out the valve you tore

& you must pull too
with exposure
laying bait
& fishing & trawling & mining

& if all that is
is a weak fart
on low hanging fruit

well i still did it

TOIL IN THE DISCONNECT

steel fish
on the
grey top

head upstream
to feed
to breed

to toil in the disconnect

meat destiny outsourced 

in evolved surrender

DELIRIOUS DIVINATION VOL 3

  i 

 want 

a bivvy for two 

&  

a double woobie

& a gentle gentle mercury stream

where new fish catch quicksilver light

& gone cats sit there with us

mesmerised & mesmerising

~

& theres some kind

of 

a 

domination virtue

in the forest fires

immense on the nature tv

horror coming home to roost

sad i am

objectivity smashed

with awe

photo by Drew Farwell on Unsplash

COVIDEO SNAPSHOT THOUGHT POPS FOR A GREY NEW WORLD 4

they clap on thursdays
they do
doorstep prompt 
8pm

like seaworld seals
they are
with dna decided
determined smiles

but 
no one throws 
their 
big hearts
any 
helping fish


~


&
i
am
reminded of the psychology
of
awarding medals
to
the
dead

wondering of the power of ritual
in the waffle briefing rain

from thedailymail.com

TWO ECO POPS

if 
a tree falls
in 
a forest

& theres no campaigners
there to hear it

can i still dynamite
the illegal loggers
heavy plant ?


~


look out there son

i remember when all THAT 
all THAT water out there

was LAND
block paved cul-de-sac LAND

& look at it now son

see 
the 
carrier bag fish swim 

look how their uv shines

from youtube.com

PICASA MADRIGALS, FOREST LUNG

OFF CUTS FROM THE SLUSH PILE

PLASTIC BY OSMOSIS

how
much
of 

our lunch and supper

our biobodies and breakfast

the fish
the sea
and
water table

is
stabbed
with
fragments
now

of the
very
same
plastic bic lighters

i
bought
by
the
dozen

on cross channel ferries
on hovercraft
and in 
heathrow terminal 3 ? 

from ec21.com

CONCRETE RUG

under the million jolly jostling waves

sit abandoned subs

nuclear belches ferment
inside iron bellies

old dreams foul hangover
swept under 
20 years 
of concrete rug

from themoscowtimes.com

WHAT EARTH SHALL
THE MEEK INHERIT ?

matter of time

before
godzilla
rises

from laminated seas

with
a
fukushima
roar

and stamps us like ants
into submission
and the stone age

from huffingtonpost.co.uk

UNDER WATER TRILOGY

1. FISHY HAIKU

fish deep in the sea

(have)

angry-blank alien faces

(and)

manage
without
phones

(or jeggings)


2. THE GRADUATE

  i 
saw the Graduate

added it to fav film list

cos
of
the
ending / dodging eyes on a doom-truth bus
and
cos
of
'plastics Benjamin'
and
cos
he
bangs his head on a wall
and
holds a boob like a fool
and
cos
of
how
he stares at his fish / epic ennui
but
mostly
cos
of
the Sounds Of Silence
making
blackness a beautiful tune
and
too
how he sinks into the pool / into Silence and Isolation 

shut-down
in
divers
blinkers


3. SWIM

at school in PE
they
booked
the
local pool
and
i
swam awesomely 
effortlessly
like a fish-boy

as id always known how

then
kids talked to me
kids respected me

that
one
time

it
didnt
last
cos 
when
my eyes weakened from reading and genes
and 
for 
1000 other unsayable reasons -  

  adolescent maelstrom
  of
  sportswear cliques
  fights in farahs
  electro 45s
  and 
  the
  unfathomable undrunk discos in village halls   

  i
stopped swimming

and
there
ended a thing
i
was
good
at

from www.telegraph.co.uk

DARK CORNERS OF THE LAND

Dark Corners of the Land by Adelle Stripe

from Blackheath Books

( with laminated fish )

Photograph by 

Mango-Tango Monkey-Pyjamas