Showing posts with label stencil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stencil. Show all posts

Wednesday, 1 April 2026

BAD NEWS ANTODOTE - SMALL TOWN FLUFF #3




to prove that 
as a race 
we are not all into curdled depravation
JDAM bombs & BLU penetrators  
here is street level report 
of the safe & mundane
& comfortably oval

~

so on the corner 
i saw cleaners in the bagel shop 
& it has reopened 
& no one saw that coming

also the new beauty salon
has got round to removing 
the newspaper off from its windows
tho it is still struggling 
to get the security shutters
all the way down of a night

oh & i nearly forgot but get this - 
at the bottom of the road
by where the fields are
theres a horsebox trailer 
parked up on someones drive
& it is stencilled
with all the exact same branding
as the bagel place is

& i wonder what people
are thinking of that








Friday, 10 January 2025

ON THE CHESTER DRAWERS




the day is there
bright / clear / classic
like Es are there
ambiguous / vestigial
at the end of words



the sun stencilled shapes
on the chester drawers
are
softly adrift
with
packed lunch sadness

& i shovel on the optimism
like ketchup
on dry mash

working with the bones of it
the doom of it
the habit & faith & light of it
in the predicted ash