THE GUARDED EYES & THE BLOOD LUST

in these dim sum days 

of fascist exfoliation 

& robot football 

our optimism & hope 

& faith & nerves & sanity 

must make do with 

     relief

     when 

a second group 

of thin brained jingo-lords 

throw their temu newsboy caps 

in the liars ring

& split 

the 

vote
of the first

IN SILICON

the ether
is brimful

to the firmament

with
our
paused conversations

burnt into silicon relief

for 

the 

river god to cool

MONDAY MONDAY

we watch the 

binmen

me & the 

cat

him with suspicion 

& fading alarm

me with old-man 

relief

3 x HAIKU POPTARTS

RATS


& r is for rats

& the rats are in the walls

thanks h p lovecraft




PARABOLA


the bare street drama

spirals us out of the whim

( i sigh with )
found booze stash relief




JOKER


his ford escort van

was a police target

laughing joker tattoo

OSMOSIS BUFFET VOL 4

  

  & 

the dreams interface

with nightmare residue

i wake / dont know who i am

reality is a bad hat

i escape

out the fish market exits

of the veil in-between

  &

the nightmares interlink

with dreams glue & sand

reality is a top hat / a crown

on

all 

heads

but mine 

photo by Chi Hung Wong on Unsplash

THE LONG GAME

the long game

wears you d

           o

            w

             n

takes your inside fire-god out

all the short deaths 

            

             s

             t

             a

             n

by the night d

                                     

overstretch your leadbelly s          g

                             p      n

                               r  i

~

&

in these weather-watch days

of

the

long games uptight sphinct

its 

dawn that brings relief

whod have fucking thought ?

photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash

DREAMS & OTHER SKETCH POPS

he

dreamt

he

was

so poor

the only place to shit

was inside a fart

~

it

is

a

strange relief

to live with dread

when dread comes to town

hailing a ghetto cab
care home in its wake


~

he dreamt he

curled around

a hand grenade

&

burnt

his

inside bacon

crispy black

baked beans boiling
inside his brain pan


~


&
the things we made
they leave their stains

& 
the trees

welcoming & indifferent

well they die standing

passive aggressive 
with
an 
embarrassing multitude 
of 
essential uses

from cutthewheat.com

SHINE ON YOU LAZY DIAMOND

i retreat
in single minded pursuit
of the shoe gaze
to
the
gentle farm inside me
the crops and buds there
and
the 
high of relief

and out the open window
over the lawns meditation
spores
float
on 
evening beams

i
go
stand among them

simply a creature on the landscape

shine on you lazy diamond

i tell myself
shine on

floating seed brush by palnk from deviantart.com

TV HASNT SLEPT SINCE 8/10/1997

my tv 
never says 
goodnight 
to me
any more

clicking it OFF mid show - 

  atlanta cops weird newspeak
  wrong aspect richard widmark 
  hitlers eternal adventures

( specifically ;
  how albert speer designed ruins 
  into the reichs new buildings
  so the 1000 year rule
  could decay in scheduled beauty )

-  i feel guilty relief 
like i kicked out a heavy talker
after a night drinking on my sofa
to wait for his cab in the street

and when i stretch out in the repeating dark
i know hes someplace out there somewhere 
bending the cabbies ear
twenty to the dozen

and when i try to
                  fall 
                     safely
into
the
natural nothing
battling the bright white noise of absence 
and the ufo lights in my eyes
i
know 
half the world 
               or 
              more
is still ON out there
making waves and taking names

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QUEEN MOTHER

oh 
man !

i remember saying
filled with relief
in march '02

i
thought
she
would
never 
die 

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