POPEYE DOYLE

that hat

5 shot
model 36
down
his
sock

hes marked with a paper fish

~

attitude
at
a
shit
desk

watches beach volleyball

ice cream
a girl

that hat

~

cheap shirt
sleeve up

like a pavlov dog

that hat gone

~

hes flying

ex-pat
arm track
old lady
lifts his watch

~

baseball re-enactment
with his food

in
a
cold turkey cell

booze cup
on sink

~

that doorstep tile
hotel tanger

phone box call

revenge arson

hes exploding

~

and
again

one gunshot

before
cut to black

pic from bighairplasticgrass.com

BAD NEWS

from shapersofthe80s.com

time 
was
i would watch rolling news
boil the world
deep into nights dark weave
and
breakfast on distilled morning rags / Red Tops rising bloodshot
barking
with
false teeth / wet tongue / all Pavlov at the privatised dawn
and
i
would feel a hot rise
of wrong-glory 
of fear-justification
of pub-night-indignation
at
the
lethal playground shoves of Goblin Meat Puppets
swaying elections
on
money
whims

now i filter 
political weather / crisis entertainment 
thru
depleted uranium nerves -

it
weakens me and shames me and lowers us all
into 
pill boxes and padded bunkers
with
a
mandated two-car space
tagged onto our hutch-build GPSed
for
Amazon drone accuracy 
and
blinkered 
happiness

 

 from www.cnn.com