HOSPITAL TEA BREAK POP #3

home made
bacon muffins

nuked midmorning
in the office microwave

the lemony steam
a damp paper towel

brown sauce surfing
on the melting gold

& nurses comment incredulous
hungry & jealous & smoking

superkings out the fire door

on a monday morning in may

HOSPITAL VISIT

one diluted
november day

overnight b&e took
blue shards away

we wish
it was
15 years ago

~

we auto park
&
suck on ecigs

hunting for a hit / kick
under
the
carpark ceiling

low cement 
is 
tomb heavy 
concrete lid

~

bodies failing
we compare symptoms
compare drs shrugs

we get
half lost
in the
add-on up-down

wishing
it was
15 years ago

~

xmas sandwich
& 
yule log muffin

crowded
contactless  
costa 
concession

unfound tumors
wait
under
polyester 
& 
day-out art-museum scarves

~

phones struggle
to find bars
in
the
healing
walls

closed 
hermetic
eco system-

you could disappear into it here

wishing
it was
15 years ago

from southendhospitalradio.co.uk

CONSUMING BODIES

cafe again
8 AM again
waiting on a muffin-
egg
and
cheese

big pic on the wall-
blonde kid
smiling MADLY
at 
a
bap
a mum looks on in GLEE

at the next table-
an
almost man
in
wife-hemmed jeans
a 
short arse
with 
weak arms
says
CANT EAT IT, BURNT TOAST
a
thin whine
too loud

i am avoiding reading the newspapers
you
see

from authenticmoms.com

IN THE ALLEY BETWEEN CHILDHOOD AND BILLS

if the gods are anywhere
theyre
in
the
silence when we stop - at last - for breath / time out
and
a
cigarette / muffin / a walk streetside in notime

maybe theyre 
in
the
back stairwell / under the steps
in
that nowhere corner / that leftover space
with
the abandoned decorators wooden ladder
and
the bike lock locked forever / arrested and undeveloped

hiding 
from 
what
they
did - taping up wounds / retired and ruminating 
in
the
alley
between childhood and bills

 from comixtakoma.wordpress.com