PUT LITTLE TRUST IN TOMORROW

whoever said
seize the day
must have been high

it comes at you like a ramrod
like a haymaker of light
like a newspaper taxi ramraid
thru a pawn shop window

youd need hands
like andre the giant
or a glove
like thanos

not my mere mortal mitts

of meds & meat & mistakes

TEA STEAM TOUCHING

i wish
miles davis
was here
to approve
of my
untutored
three finger
piano dirges

i can picture him
sat with biscuits

in my parents living room

tea steam touching

his smoked blue wraparounds

nodding sagely 

at my light touch

on the pedals

&

all the mistakes i play

between the notes i dont

AN INDOOR SAGA

DIRTY STOPOUT 1

it

was

in

a

blur

of 

exhaustion worry and hasty food

that

i

slid

helpless wilful and unaided

into

the

twilight of exclusion

DIRTY STOPOUT 2

when the phone rang

it was a warning siren

cos

the

whole world wanted in

down the curly wire

i would break out

in a cold sweat

on my bed island

unable to decide anything

at

all

DIRTY STOPOUT 3

it

was

in

a

fools gamble

to

keep time available and mine

that i shut the door fast

after

work

and

mechanically inebriated

my

residue

way

over

the

plimsoll line

DIRTY STOPOUT 4

sunday was a buffer

a condemned ritual

of

baths

and

nothing

and

wine

the emptiest of fields

that my mistakes needed

to

breath

DIRTY STOPOUT 5

and today

well today

i wait for the postman

like

a

child

at

xmas

with only natures hangover

and

the gasman

is coming later

between noon and five

the gasman

is

coming

to

visit

me 

from thenorthernecho.co.uk

DC VILLAINS ET AL ( 3 POLITICOPOPS )

1. LETTER ACROSS THE POND

dear United Mistakes of America

building walls 
wont stop planes 
or weather
only human progress

kindest regards

the United Supermarket Of Little Britain

PS
try NOT bombing
just for a change ?

PPS
kettle call the pot black much ?
i know . . .

PPPS
on that note
the kettles on if youre around ?

2. DOMESTIC ABUSE


fullfat putin
says 

if you stay home 
its ok to put the boot in

be dead by 41 anyway
on bathtub potato gin

fullfat putin

cant dilute him

and on the dashboard of a moscow cab 
nods 

a

bobblehead stalin

3. SPEECHDOM


youre free to speak

said idi amin 
on freedom of speech

but
i
cant
guarantee 
your 
freedom
afterward

and on cannibalism 

the perfect crime !
all the evidence is eaten

i see we taught him well

from azquotes.com

KITCHEN RADIO ON . . .

doubt

the BIG doubt

that
all
this
daily earthly stumbling and thinking and doing
is
nothing

at

all

like the pain all the way to death and back
like
the
hot ice knives
of
photo album regret
like
mortal mistakes on the graveyard path

that doubt/that BIG doubt

kill it
with 
the truth of new turds
and
the holy swear rumble
of
rock 
and 
roll