HOPE ON ICE

the sadness

is under the ice

i keep the hope on

as i play 

wait & see

in the mad dancing shadow

of the proverbial pan

PLACE IS HEAVY NONSENSE

trembling at death
frying pan to fire ?

agog at the universe
the size of the thing ! 

& afraid of tomorrow
that regular unknown

~

this place is heavy nonsense

run by lightweights & lunatics

their teeth marks clear

on the seaside piers 

& the dogs of circumstance

congregate to salivate 

in 

the 

truncated precinct

nangs & candy plastic

on 

the 

betting slip ground 

A DIAGRAM OF NEW HISTORY & OLD TOYS

we

are

a
backed-up
stack-up
of
sudden & creeping

butterflown events
in
the
fading meat world 
& 
the growing glass other

coincidental
or god blamed

drawn unrecognisable

in
times 

tumble weed

memory 
pans

&
google flattened
in the 
electric cumulus

~


the toys that i clutched

down there 
on the

hallway carpet hinterland

their
plastic detail
&

the 
skirting board

still now are 
lurid & lunging 
mescal real

simple details / simple time

face-close
eye-burn

for 
forever
ever

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YESTERDAYS EDITS

when 
i 
was 
solidstate & sarcastic
going faster miles an hour
i
was
a
streetside clothes horse
rapping elastic
in the mojo midnight
unsane
up
the
rec ground
climbing frame

harebrained in denim and nowhere free

~

& when i was a teflon pan

i was an echo chamber 

of feedback & warehouse labour

filtered 

with 

hearsay

from thirty years away

denying

the

frying

inside

~

& when i shorted out

out of the simmer pot

& into the blue stove flames

i

became

a

flagellating phoenix

combing for codeine

in the dead gold drift wood

on

the

kitchen granite causeway

& i asked for oxy

in the new wave vault

for

all

the

ultra waves

from out the catchup tv

~

& now im an open book
with a split & busted spine

i
am
all 
water stained & edged with brown
with dried up 
slo-mo go-go glands

playing canute in the bathtub
with a heel in the plughole
medicated right-side-up
&
john woo shootout slow

my index awol
& anyway
its written
in 
hanging chad braille

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