PUNCTUAL SUMMER

summer is on time

& unusual because of it

& 

in the heat 

is a hiatus of things
& 

all the muggers 

lie down with the lambs
& 

crane flies come inside

tired of the wild grasses

& 

we have ice cream

& 

nothing is urgent

& 

everything 

is 

simple & still & poised & placed

as a sofa facing

a quiet tv thats on

 

CONFORMING CAN BE COOL

doorstep charity mugger
shakes my hand
when i tell her
all the charities 
i given a bung to
online this week
out my paupers income

well done she says well done

and i tell her
i am just conforming
to my
low income
sick-note
white writer
home-in-the-day
liberal
compassionate 
demographic
and 
i would rather have ordered myself 
a fat bag of ritalin instead
but
who
can
trust
these
websites 
these
days ?
and anyway 
who needs the anxiety and bruxism ?

 

from dryarbrough.com