SEE ME OR CAN DO BETTER

in
the
time
it
takes me
to do my teeth

i

have

travelled 

around

half

our world & history

& 

i scribble 

SEE ME or CAN DO BETTER 

in red

under

all our 

pointless & destructive repetitions

THEN CARLOS RAN

one shot 

& the tokarev 

jammed up after

& that one bullet 

bounced off

the philtrum

of the man 
in the bath

bounced !

& then carlos ran

from a bathroom

& into history

MOON WALLPAPER 3

we are  

cutlery monkeys

&

electric chimps

with

history chips

&

flipside chipsticks

on 

kevlar shoulders

&

worn canvas epaulettes

cheered & damned 

by

soft slugabeds

supine 

in clouds of vanilla mist

&

armchair generals

wild

in a chilli flake rain

all

empathy ducts clogged

&

sympathy holes healed

on

their food padded tv ribs 

 

PEP TALK ON THE BOG

i find

more poetry

in pulp novels

than in the dense clumps
of history approved posey

thick with forced meter

& accurate apostrophes 

i dont want a history lesson

or a syntax lecture 

just to glean a misty gist

i need a pep talk on the bog

IN THE AIR WITH BIRDS

plan your stopgap roads 

if you must
plan your flagship railways
if you must

& when you dig up 

the history secrets
in the english silt
then cancel them - you must !

& invest in solar power dirigibles

slow travel

to counteract

the future shock

in the air
with birds

TO THE THAMES IN FOUR CORNERS

take the first left

then the first right
first left again
then second left 

& stop

you can see the thames from here

that storied history river

conrad dracula pepys
the ss richard montgomery

a thumbnail smudge
between the horizon cranes

GODFORSAKEN TAPS

nights as ellipsis
a time out

notching over
the gaudy days
unfinished everythings

paintchips & over brushes
half tidied box city plans

those godforsaken taps

defragging success 

into history files

to-do lists

into the laterbase

photo by Anandan Anandan on Unsplash

SIGNIFICANT TIME IN HISTORY, A DISINTERGRATING SKETCH POP OF DIMINISHING RETURNS

living thru a very
significant time in history

curfew cluster-fuckery
AIs join the military

one rule for all

consistent message

youll be lucky . . .

in these poundland lockdown

zig zag days

~

generation defined

paradigm shift

ingrowing toenail
& all the rest

& the red berry bush
is culled
but unkillable
outside our quiet windows

~

  take the train

 take the bus

   no carping 

    no fuss

 ( unless grandmas on there

   & only before 9 or after )

~

  hands

     face

 mace

  knees & toads

     knees 

      & toads

     two worlds

   two faces

     one track

 two traces

   & implode

        yes 

      implode

~

  moon shot

    pot shot

 fancy a suicide dram

      from 

    the 

       silver spoon ?

  blitz spirit

   innit !

      innit ?

    blitzed spirit

 more like

&

any sympathy for the arseholes

      of celebrity LA . . ?

from spectrum.ieee

INSTAGRAM REFRACTION (CIRCUS MIRROR 2)

MUST be
re-whole
reformed  
pimped-up

   by
lunchtimes
drugged unsleep

same shit

different whips

overdrawn 
in neon plumage

payday payaway another day

&
there
They
have
Us

history might cry

if it 
wasnt
bunk

from royalholloway.ac.uk

DULL WISDOM

got to
accept
the hole
youre in

before you can climb out it

but if
you find
comfort
in its
dull safe walls

well then fuck it

wallow and nap

and maybe history 
will reach out
with a dumb mitten 
anyway

and knight me

with
a
curly fry

pic from blastr.com

BRIGHTSIDE

reaction is - duct tape
              over
              the
              webcam

reaction is - read some history
              read some 1984 
              for reassurance
                 that  
                 things 
                 have 
                 been 
                 this 
                 hysterical 
                 before

and tho thats no so great is it

theres 
progress 
to hold onto - light
               in
               the 
               margins

even chomsky admits to hope

and
  it
    might
      still
        be 
          possible 
            to 
              live 
                in 
                  peace
         and
       explore
        space
       together

    so  very  sorry
    epic  regretful 
    and 
              wiser

from pinterest - gnome chomsky

YOU CALL US

they called us 
  baby boomers
they called us 
  the blank generation
they called us 
  generation x

  etc

will they call you 
  generation text ? 
will they call you 
  generation next ?
or
  evergreen perennials ? 

  meh & bleh

~

they 
tie 
us 
down
in buzzwords

in a tagnut tangle
     blisterpack windows
     state approved text

and sell us clothes
with the words on

break the mold ?

and
youll
define
it
even
more

~

they
give 
us 
different pastel shades

they
draw 
clear and invented divisions

across
our
gray 
shades

~

there will be enough time
when
we 
are 

     finished 
        and 
      fucked

for our thick retrospit
to
sizzle
on
the
bitesize bonfire
of
histories
bugthick
glampsite

from cartoonstock.com

THREE

B&W FILMS ARE FULL OF JOBS NO ONE HAS ANYMORE


trying not to smoke 
is
impossible
watching
a
film noir
for breakfast

from doriantb.blogspot

TOO MUCH DEATH TV


i look at news

mainly the headlines
mainly out of the corner of my eye

i
MUST
be 
informed

but
i
MUSTN'T
see

their
faces 

from csglobe.com

WE SLEEP IN THE BED HISTORY MADE


trying to not worry
about
the
worlds
rented confusion
i
bask in weakness
and
kipple
and
create plop-pop pomes
in
free and found and quiet empty time 
instead

from leilaladomptable.wordpress