ACTION HERO BIRKENSTOCKS

when the cracks show
like dry earth filigree
i filler them
with lou reed & anne sexton
with sharp cheddar & con air

& i write something down
write this down
call it a poem
call it essential work
& rub the blear from my kliegs

& send this pixel clot & bolus
down the byebye wifi stream
& everyone look -
john cusaks saving the day
in his socks & sandals

INTELLIGENCE FRAG POP

all the agent report
'...obliterated sources...'

as we watch 

our games shows & stories
in the wifi sop

GOOGLING PADLOCKS

on hand-me-down phones
&
library wifi

the sick google 

padlocks & foodbanks

in
the ruins
of
britains stable doors

TREE DREAM OF OTTERS & TROUT

& the crypto mothman

has been sighted again

digging in the dump

for his plastic slab

of unicorn wealth

& snake oil -

well its a brand now

& off-grid looks good

looks like a fad

looks like a hard death

a place to be born

but not move too

a tree dream of otters & trout

to think on

when the wifi is down

OBSOLESCENCE FURY

its wednesday
or thursday
or friday
or whatever

& tho acid blemished 

in the threadbare patches

with pink shapes of sun
morning is a folded stack
of over-washed towels
gone no colour at all

& up in the tv skies
bent wires tremble
with obsolescence fury
in the wifi wind

& the sentinel shingles

& the bitten pointing

who have seen it all

WORLD POPS

OLD NEWS

we are not 
the good guys
anymore

all white hats are dark 
with 
terrible and complicit 
grime



FILL IN THE BLANK

trained and tamed
scared
so blame . . . [place country
                      ethnic minority
                      economic class or bloc
                      political party
                      fictitious social group
                here
                depending on decade]



ANALYSIS

we
are
consuming units
in a wifi cage
fed
to
diabetes and gastric emergency
on
cookiecutter movies
and
the
newspeak papers



HOSTAGES

in all honesty
best
tick

stockholm syndrome

in
the 
voting booth

from cartoonmovement.com

POEM POP