FLOAT DOWNRIVER REMEMBERING

i down my meat tools
& dont try so much

when the weather is happening

great bruised shoulders
of rain rolling in
painting scifi skyscapes

&
thickening up the air

i zone out / feel small
& float downriver
remembering
the chupa chups & jolt cola
from 7 eleven at midnight
& 

dodging the fare

on the misery line home

OLD HIWAY TO S'END

  the old hiway to s'end
is
a
clot
of drivethrus now 
  the
blacktop frozen 
into 
ripples like a lowtide beach

  pubs are boarded up
in
armour of silver steel
and
  all the roadside bungalows 
  shed their paint like scabs

  the old hiway to s'end
hunches
its subway shoulders 
  weighed down by newbuild towers
under
skyroads treading heavy in lowcloud 
  so
  doomlike 
  and
  dull strong grey 

 from piley.blogspot.com - southend essoldo, warrior square