BETWEEN

between

gods
old paper
mumbo

off
white
hospital
walls

the pantomime 
bipolar
cage fights
in
parliament

and the eternal
daily
slap
of
laborious metabolising

doves collect twigs
for new nests

cats hide
from imagined thunder

black faced gulls 
look out in silence
from tv eaves
masked like mimes

then
a 
10 min monsoon

wet sock

from rspb.org.uk

2015 CLEAR OUT POPS

1.

  it
  is
familiarity / habit 

    (both cobalt blue)

and
my
daily doses - pills / love / light

    (scarlet and gas-fire orange)

  that
  keeps
  me 
  quiet 
out on this
alien ledge
  where
  artists
  wait in rags

    (stripes and checks and black-white)


2.

poetry-

pissing in gales
monsoon weeping

    or

  an
  angry
  ape
ripping thesauruses / bibles
into
Orphans Widows Wardead

  in front of the mirror with rusty corners
  in
  a
library washroom


3.

cars at 7 pm
mumble and rumble-shout
  8
  tight
  syllables
over the train track crossing 


4.

  office buildings
  glass and steel layer cakes
shine
all night
for
the 
ghosts of the laid-off

and
  fart out the sweat-stench of the working day
  in
  hot
  steam 

     billowing

into the security eyes

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