DIGRESSES WITH REMINISCES

the orator
drops his paper
reading some prayer about shepherds

& he digresses
with reminisces
about his own sheep farming days

there is no conviction
in his blunt diction
when he says

sheep are stupid
they turn their toes up
at any old thing

at the funeral
we were at
last thursday noon

DAWN LAWN SANDMAN

the lawn is slick

dew on ruts

sky is late

blue grey
slab like

stuffed washrags

i want more
than this


~


i remember wales

the bungalows
sliding doors

the sandman
in the mail

& the static sheep

pin-fixed 
like a 
butterfly collection

out the window
on the roll of the world


~


i remember
i thought
i could live like this

in this quiet
& 70s brown

from stackedexchange.com

POEMS FOR ALIENS, A PARTIAL GUIDE TO THE EARTH Nos 4 & 5

4. THE CLOUDS

like sheep
when sheep
hide their legs
and head

but
moving still
as 
if
blown on a wind



5. THE RAIN

like the shower*
but bigger

and outdoors
to
keep
the
animals** clean

pic from baarmychris.wordpress.com

* entry not yet available
** see entry No 8

ANIMALS

well isnt it all 
a meat theatre
of high risk 
audience participation 

where the dogs 
feed the sheep
the shit from the bulls
like the pigs said

all the scenery anyway
has long been sold 
for headlines
and fools gold

and when the 
curtains are down
and when the 
lights are up 
the dogs 
cant look up from the sheep
and the sheep 
cant look up at all

from nydailynews.com

SHAPE WOOD SON

- pa i dont need to go to big school do i ?

- why
  not
  son ?

- cos you said

- what
  did
  i
  say
  son ?

- thats its just consumerist conditioning
  and dumbed down revisionism
  and it kills childrens beautiful spirits
  
- was
  i
  drinking
  son ?

- yes pa
  and you said its lethally reductive . . .

- well
  you
  still
  have
  to
  go . . .

- so i can become a docile sheepman
  led by my innocent nose
  to the trough of obsolescent electronics
  and populist malleable politics ?

- yes . . .
  i'm
  sorry
  son

- will i learn about parental hypocrisy pa ?

- if
  you
  do
  sociology
  son

- but i cant do that till sixth form pa

- then
  learn
  to
  work
  with
  your
  hands
  son

- ok pa

- shape
  wood
  son

  and
  let
  the
  rest
  be

  like
  its
  all
  just
  bad
  weather

- ok pa

- thats
  the
  best
  i
  got
  son

  i'm
  sorry

- thats ok pa
  you dont run the world
  shall i get you a beer pa ?

from journal.neilgaiman.com

CUE THE COUP SPREADSHEET...

todays promises
are tomorrows excuses 
puppets 
fooling 
sheep

from thegaurdian.com