LEE MARVINS SHOES

the director
asked the widow
if she 

wanted 

something
of the actors
from any

of his films

the shoes 

she said
from that 

corridor scene
that spoke

of will & intent

in a menacing
metronome echo

HABITS

in the flat hours of day
belly
nerves
arrive
and
drum an empty hum of menace - a headache wallpaper 
of 
endtimes anxiety and nothingness fear
timid
but
balls-out
thumping 
the 
skins
and 
watching the show

i talk myself down from hard wired bad design/a habit now 

like
squinting hard and frowning tight
just
to
remember the date-numbers and year
cos
it
looks
like
no
time
id
ever
live
in
at all