EVEN JUST A BLIM

art before chores
art before youre dressed

art before voyeuristic vicarious

online viddy & earwigging

even if its just a blim
of a homeless thoughtscape headplan 

even if its looking up art
in the dictionary

& reading the definition

& thinking about the definition
& rewriting the definition much better
in your mind where no one can see

even if its composing a poem 

like this one

while pissing & leaning on the tiles

mind freed & untethered

by biological drainage & release

BOOZE SONATA VOL1 WORMHOLE

those tiles
over the pub urinal
i saw them crack
under the pressure

of my supporting hand

i remember 

crumbling dust 

ceramic fragments
dusting my white knuckles


~

i remember zipping up

i remember stepping back

& 
the tiles werent tiles

they were lino

but stamped like tiles

no cracks there
no knuckle dust

& no urinal either

was a broom cupboard


~

i remember coming out the cupboard 

to barstaffs sarcastic applause
& 

i remember my composure 

was rock solid

like a drunk-numb dover cliff

& i lit a cigarette
& i went to the pool table
& to all my drinks there

but there was no pool table

was a crammed refurb gastro slot

~

i remember a waiter

he told to take my smoke outside

& i did

blue cue chalk 

on my

pissy smoking fingers

easter island composure

weathering the london dark

photo Night Dark courtesy of the Dagenham Archives

HOME POPS

AS A KID

ma read to me

purple stone
in a silver cage

indoors-
safe from 
lavender bush
garden wasps



DAWN & DUSKS

dawns software
airbrushed out stars 

for evenings 
someone somewhere
clicks undo

& the too-heavy
night-cloud nights
are
out 
of 
our hands

waiting on a patch



BACK GARDEN

back garden dirt

is as soil
as soil is

or 
as clay bullshit
as clay dirt is
( corpses 
  cant even
  rot in you )

hail you hardy perennials

goodbye
seedlings 



KITCHEN

orange tiles
tiled up
by
orange haired tiler 

are

pythagoras squared
perfection symmetrical

& they seem to
emit 
a soft & even
sunlight
glow

from mosfil.co.uk

CALL OF THE WILD

  its a strange world
    a hiccup life
 smeared and weird

   bricks and upvc and cars 
  block paving round the fruit trees
      where we tried
  to improve the ground

 and too  of course  the endless plastic rain

  step back  take a time out  
     and

      come

     on

     d
     o
     w
     n

  see   we are  beasts on the carpet
   phones now  where our claws were

    see  we are  animals with tiles
 insulated from the call of the wild
         
       we  still hear it . . .

 its an itch 
   we talk about 
    in the  
 therapy room

  the steel edge  in our laughter
   after dusk   when murder
      is
       for
      the good of the brood
      
     or
      only
     the
  dinner bell

from wikiality

TABLE

table
table
table

28 tiles for a top

used
to
sit
in
nans
kitchen

under a thick plastic table cloth

now its my desk

and

somehow

freed