ABOUT POST NOMINALS

'hey listen

 i got letters after my name too'

 i say to the room

 of doctors

 & scientists

 & chancers

'ten of them

 if you count
 initialised illnesses

 & i do'

LETTER FLAPS COUGH

 

i arrange 

the fruit of the detritus rain

&

the paper tiles

of the letter flaps cough

into an approximation

of amateur tasseomancy

with a hope & ennui yin yang 

spinning electric 

inside my ribs

SOFT UPLOAD POPS

    
    jack in
    back up
    update
    tune out

i used to signs checks
for a pack of fags

just like that lebowski

~

upload your unthinking   
    to
    the
  densehead microsoft clouds

  a rain will come
our secrets falling in code

chernobyls overdue payload 

~

  pour tv product 
onto your cluster headache

squint into the stories

    codeine 
    ready 
in your clicker paws

~

lymph
nodes
sore & swelling 
       
          from
          blocking
        ppi pop-ups
          &
    desperate 
    weight loss
    muscle build
    clickbait

where we used to write letters
of reflection and dopamine 

from popularmechanics.com

POETS LETTERS

all 
the 
good 
old 
school 
poets
wrote letters

i read about it in forwards
and
saw big hardbacks 
of 
collected 
correspondences

from 
mexico and salt marsh 
from
forbidden territories and the tree house
they
knew
each 
others
appetites - shared their missions
ideas 
tempers
beds
and
lives - filing eyes-only reports from private wastelands
and
barking
moods 
from 
their 
beards

the electric age 
has made correspondence easier
but
reduced
our souls 
to 
shouting soundbites

so to good poets out there - apologies
for
my
scant sharing
of ideas
mission
and
temper
but
my
mission
is
a small one and cloudy
and
my
empathy strained