GODFORSAKEN TAPS

nights as ellipsis
a time out

notching over
the gaudy days
unfinished everythings

paintchips & over brushes
half tidied box city plans

those godforsaken taps

defragging success 

into history files

to-do lists

into the laterbase

photo by Anandan Anandan on Unsplash

NO SUCH THING AS A BROKEN TAP

 

never list the faulty devices

do not name the broken things

because

there is no such thing

as a broken tap

they only are

as they will be

& maybe were

in a plastic zen sort of way

~

plumbing is mad jazz

because 

theres no such thing 

as a broken tap

when 

the 

oak is acorn & stump

is tinder & coal & home

so never list the faulty devices

& do not name the broken things

photo Garden Peeping No 1 from the Dagenham Archive

DREAM FUDGE POP DYLAN

 

the point of your brother
is to be not like you

bob dylan says to me

hes in his albert hall suit
hair nashville skyline short
&
he runs the bath taps
&
he stops the bath taps
&
he repeats this rhythmically

giving the plug hole
his interview stink eye

in the border town motel bathroom
we had crossed the manson desert to see


~


i dont think
theres water
here to spare
but

theres feedback sneers
on the dusty wind
coming in the open window

the thin curtain a wagging skein rag

so i keep my voyeur counsel

as bob is sprouting 

a blonde on blonde bouffant 


~


i dream-think i know i am dreaming

&
it takes the bite
out the ache of the cool

&
the dont-look-back backstage clash
of the zeitgeist invention tension

photo - Speed #54 from the Dagenham Archive