YOU REGULARS KNOW THIS / BONUS RHYME

birds chirp
in the red berry bush
dawn & 4 pm

you regulars know this

they chirp - fuck me
             eat this
             etc

~

no matter mind
who did or didnt
sign the
shortfall nuclear treaties
or
pressure pledge
to the climate commitments

~

the birds chirp
dawn & 4 pm
until i report otherwise
&
sit comfortably
if you can

till you cant anymore


~


theres only one end to this

said the mountains to the trees

the cutlery monkeys call for opiates

lets give them back to the sea

photo - Firmament No4 from the Dagenham Archive

POPS OF DUSK & NEWS

POEMS

should read them
if you write them

said the piano child

i read norse i said

in every autumns
carnival death



NEWS IS DUSK

putins pants
on back to front

or so it looks to me

theyre purple like night

purple like dusk falling

on
adequate
gas
supply



WOODEN MOON

sounds like
news headlines 
herald winters
nuclear dark

in
tom waits
left-over
gravel voice


DISAPPOINTED JOURNO

dylan in movie set caravan

interviewed - he portraits journo

for
his
own
fridge
door

from rollingstone.com

STEPTOE'S REPUBLIC

i change 
a line 
or two
in the 
mess of words 
i made
and call
it a day

make a
brew
find a
movie
find
painkillers

wondering 
if socrates
was as good 
a soldier
as they said 
and if 
there are
any other words
as solid sounding
as republic

~

over the road
steptoes 
back lit 
front room 
net curtain
looks like 
a milky cataract

a naked bulb
is lit all hours

what he doing 
in there ?

247 patrol
in his
republic of junk ?

  

from bt.com

THREE POSSIBLE REPETITIONS

SEASONS NEVERMIND

i
write
without
drink

no one ever did a harder thing

and out there
autumn
dies
in
gold



TOMORROW IS A PLACE ON EARTH

i
thought
if
i
stopped drinking
i
would
die
in
the
flatness of the world

but i didnt



ETERNAL STORIES

the footlights now
are
a
nuclear glow

the actors

desperate

carry
on

from flatearthscienceandbible.wordpress.com

FOUR POPS

we 
live 
like a row of terraces

invisiby different
till you go inside

look each other in the eye

and
dont
lie

~

its unusual

its night

i am awake inside the opiates
and
i
am
full
of
love

for you all

~

i write without drink

no
one
has
ever
done
a harder thing

ever

~

the footlights now
are
made
of
a
nuclear glow

the actors
confused & desperate
can
only
carry
on

from dudeiwantthat.com