FRAG 37

never has the past looked so rosy

thinks everyone

every time

the fan 

needs another 

deep clean

~

like the radar station

disguised as a water tower

from the last global war

looks

quaint & retro

these days

to me

ROSY BACKFLASH

 

i brim brim brim 

    with rosy flashbacks

inside the denial 

    of an empires shadow

    

its gone gone gone 

    gone septic & more

too long untreated

    yes yes yes

~

    real roses 

      too mythological 

        to see

    in the white piano

    indian jewel dream

BUTTON DOWN POCKET OF HAND-ME-DOWN FLARES

when i was a small me
i read some books about a kid

with a special key & a magic cat

i might be recalling it wrong
i might not be telling it right

but i remember 

being compelled 

to attempt the same 

i acquired an orphan key 

to a long gone mortice lock

& i carried it inside 

a button-down pocket

of my hand-me-down flares

always worried i would lose it 

&

the only cat i knew

was a sack of alley scratch hisses

& 

the magic

is here now

in the rosy gem

of hinterland hindsight

photo - Edward B&W Fade from the Dagenham Archive

SOUND FILE VOL 4

 

90s radio 

on in the motorcar

in 2021 

leafy murmurs & thunderclaps

dayglo whistles in the air

look down all day at your shoes

two journeys 

for the price of one

~

the bad is worse & the ok better 

rose tinted right ?

its in its context now

safe in a history box

landlines still rung

napster a teenage dream

~

  i 

  reckon 

Lester Bangs would rate the Prodigy

& not much else

  

  & 

  spit cool accelerator bile 

  on the unrock dirge laments*

 

* you know who i mean

TUESDAY POPS AGAIN

THINGS WERE BETTER
BACK IN MY DAY

what
kind
of
wasteland
is
this
past ?

that permits
itself
such a rosy glow ?



Q&A

whats its like then
being a poet
and that ?

he asked
like all the words
were new to him

well i wrote it down
didnt i

i said

so i didnt
have to talk to you



POSTCARD FROM BRITAIN

cluster fuck
in
the
fug
over here

rich seams 
mined
to disaster

i hear a sid james laugh
whenever news sneaks 
itself on the tv

im behind the sofa
worse than dr who



ENGLAND NOW ?

is there no england now
in the post truth world ?

and when was this
truth world
anyway . . .

did i fucking blink ?

from telegraph.co.uk