NEVER HAVE GONE

theres a tape in me
that plays back 

old friends voices

with such timing 

that its like

they never
have gone 

~

this conjured backing

is flowers that bloom

out the stomped dust 

A HOLIDAY FRAG POP

 

black mountainside
tequila on the bends

picture postcard valley
portmeirion in the wind

bad b&b weirdness
escaped with friends

BLOG POST NUMBER 3333, BE ANIMAL

this is BLOG POST NUMBER 3333

this seems like a landmark
that needs an announcement
but its only numbers

seems a good point to suspend
the blog for the holidays
normal service will continue soon

hatchbacksonfire.blogspot.com

also listen to the
Alternate Stories & Fake Realities
Midwinter Monologues podcast

i am in it, innit

https://www.buzzsprout.com/411730?s=30
https://linktree/AlternateStories?s=03

~

BE ANIMAL

animals are naked 

they own themselves

we are meat runes to them

& thats ok -

we can still be friends

tho our cups 

are busted 

into logo dust

~

i fiddle with minutiae

in the mornings feint 

rome burning 

the best violins

DREAM FUDGE POP CRIMINAL DUO

 

she & he should be only friends
she said
to properly contain their criminal intent

&
she was catalogue happy
&
he was movie sad
&
their life was a badland teardrop


~


their
epilogue texts
thumbed from
prison yard bleacher
balloon-drop cellphones

regretted nothing & saw everything

both smuggling in drugs now
for 4G data
library privileges
&
a time-out oblivion nod

photo - Freedom Glares from the Dagenham Archive

PERFECT RIPPLES & REAL TERROR

i make perfect ripples

never seen

in the cannonballs splash


~

real terror 

is in the 

naked sunlight

we are tricked by its gold

the shadows are old hat for horror

come on
admit it -

them old shadow horrors 

are old friends

photo - Refuel in Texture from the Dagenham Archive

BACK TO THE PLASTIC MACHINE GUN

writing
is the Hardest Easy thing
to do

see-
one profundism
&
i am stuck already . . .

back to the
plastic machine gun
&
its liquid crystal eye

& the words

my beautiful 
pain-in-the-arse 
friends

what weird route
have you booked for me today 
on 
your
little yellow 
mountain train

from www.usbwriter.com

MOVIE POPS & A BOOK POP

DEATH AND THE PENGUIN

penguin at the graveside
hired
tired
paid
to wake them
on their way

dont ask
youre working youre alive
dont ask
youre writing youll survive

penguin in the graveyard
his work is not hard
fish fed and under stars

dont ask
youre working youll thrive
if you dont know
wont have to hide

penguin plays his part
stood still in the rain
falls ill
in pain
needs a transplant
mourners acquire a childs heart

but you looked in the bottom drawer
found out
safe no more
and now must wangle
a plane
to antartica

from goodreads.com

UNFORGIVEN POPS


1.

film
on
broadcast
tv

saw it 
on release 
1992

high & awed
a western

get in
i remember thinking

get in


2.

i remember
the bits we liked

& like them again

i remember
the bits we laughed at
afterwards
in a hatchback
knee deep
in fast food kipple

with friends

i dont see

anymore



3.

hes big
hes broken
hes bent over

hes sick
in the rain
in a strange town

he sees a ghost - hendershot

but he aint like that anymore


5.

he dreams -

the 
angel of death
has 
snake eyes

but
he aint like that 

anymore ?

from theredlist.com

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

a 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 a 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

pic from geography.org.uk

PORN BEFORE WEB

DRUG TALK

codeine calls temazepam a lightweight

temazepam calls codeine heavy handed

i
call
them
both
old friends i miss

and
i
wish
they
could get along

from society6.com