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
unfamous pop-tarts
are herded
needy and bleating
as
guilty sacrifice lambs
thru
sat night soft gladiator pre-praise
all
wanting it SO much
and
pumped up to unreal heights with steroid-fame
they
cry
into
presenters shoulders
when
its
all
taken
away
by a premium rate revenue stream
theyre launched
into a B-strand residue
of morning tv
cheap weeklys exclusives
their five minute faces
filling
up
newspapers
instead
of
the murder murder murder
of
bees
earth
and
us
from www.newnownext.com
BOOKS
good books
are
all
ticks
on a checkboard / on some meta to-do list
they
are
plucked
from
the
universal mind
by
typer
brains
oiled and loaded / rickety and keen
reports filed
and
job
done
oh to be a chosen paper saint
HEADLINES 1
the
headlines of the world
drag the flowers
into
the
shade
HEADLINES 2
unhealthy hysterical preoccupation
with
easy
generalisation
the
truth
is
in
the
small
print
but
who
cares about that ?
specific detail
and
hard fact
is
no
ones
tagline
