SCARED ENOUGH PT2

they got us
  scared enough

to vote for
  a straw man border

when the blind men
  have cometh

with tunnel vision
  to the stars

SCARED ENOUGH PT1

they got us 

  scared enough

to judge

  the size of boats

& monitor 

  our sick neighbours

for the 

  slightest signs of health

DRAFTED TO EARTH SERVICE

&
tv show wikis
&
video game wikis
&
mushroom microbrands

hijack my honest internet research 

& anyway 

i was drafted 

to earth service

so none of this is on me

i needlecast with no fatline
too scared to look at my EEG

AN IMPOSSIBLE PONDER

older now
&
i look back
&
i wonder

if i am anywhere close
to how the younger me

had dreamed
or hoped
he would be

but i am too scared to look

& i remember now - so was he

COVIDEO SNAPSHOT THOUGHT POPS IN A GREY NEW WORLD 3

in a grey new world
thats mad green & hot blue

with just one
white tiger stripe 
plane scratched 
in the block powder sky

i fill pixel baskets
four thousand pounds full

dreaming urgently
dreaming unclear
dreaming escapes


~


&
in 
the choice desert 
of difficult birth

the 
scared brave new old worlds
sane infos gone

maybe where the
loo roll went

DRINK AND KNIVES AND GOD

    DRINK

 now drink will tell you
  that its the most beautiful thing
    
     and 
      im 
       not 
   saying its wrong

 but you try 
        getting out in one piece  

             once 
           youre 
        all the way in


    KNIVES

 i dont  hold onto 
           knives     for long 
                     these days

       i slice the cheddar
  and ding the knife in the sink

       scared
         of
         what else      my hands
                      might try and cut


    GOD THE LANDLORD

(oh)  dear god

      your playground is unsafe for children now
      
      cat shit in the sand pit
      got nothing on this !

      and theres bullies who reckon they love you

      please might you do something ?


      yours
      sincerely

   
      earth inhabitants


      PS
      not everyone lets us grow the herb down here neither

from budk.com

WORLD POPS

OLD NEWS

we are not 
the good guys
anymore

all white hats are dark 
with 
terrible and complicit 
grime



FILL IN THE BLANK

trained and tamed
scared
so blame . . . [place country
                      ethnic minority
                      economic class or bloc
                      political party
                      fictitious social group
                here
                depending on decade]



ANALYSIS

we
are
consuming units
in a wifi cage
fed
to
diabetes and gastric emergency
on
cookiecutter movies
and
the
newspeak papers



HOSTAGES

in all honesty
best
tick

stockholm syndrome

in
the 
voting booth

from cartoonmovement.com