MICROSCOPE ON IT ALL

you say a word
too much
& its meaning evaporates

it can be like that writing
microscope on it all

i try & let the words fall out
like a shit unseen

but my mind 

is often short 

on fibre & rhythm 

~

outgoing words can be frail
is what i am getting at

their sense seen 

in the reading of them

read words are strong words

are words that arrived

written ones only hopeful 

& greenstick raw

ALIVE LIKE A GUN IS ALIVE

to be
an electric guitar
raw
from the last show
keen

for the next

alive like a gun is alive

wating

backstage
in the calm

before the rock

almost not even needing any hands