an open letter to the open borders brigade

do you leave your front door open
with a breeze block – as a doorstop
open w i d e
like pacman at the dentist
( so the breeze can usher in … )

leaves & masks & plastic bags
detritus
from this system’s collapse

wanders come, the world is closer
sinking slowly, rats & goblins
piss upon your – d.f.s sofa
yoofs will nick your purple hair dye

rabid gangs
of chartered surveyors
& bards on the run – will trash your gaff

smash your mirrors
& eat your secret stash
of caramel freddos
& tunnok’s teacakes

while you’re marching
in a rainbow gimp suit
with green jackboots
begging uncle government
for open bloody borders

( ? )

fooling around

if music be

the fool of love

then add fool to the fire

be fool of beans

fool of good intentions

it’s your fool time job

put fool on the table

drink the fool aid

fooling in the gaps

turning fool circle

with big shoes to fool

at the bottom of

the fool chain

comfortably numbnuts

hallowed be thy
navy t-shirt

lemon drizzle
when it’s wednesday

if the vicar’s
milking thistles

soon the curlews
pull the curtains

seven digits
in each sequence

intermittent
morris dancers

iron-plated
paper planes soar

or the doctor
never melted

singing if it’s
raining gravy

fifty thousand
clarinetists

pickled onions
in your sock drawer

– no, the florist
shop is closed now

buttercups

sun petal vessels

& the yellow of your chin

spreading on meadows

( author notes )

~

this poem is dedicated

to all the poor, poor victims

of the latest terrible thing

~

the man on the news

said it was absolutely terrible

& who are we to disagree?

~

social media is abuzz

with heartfelt hashtags

from kind & genuine souls

~

who can’t help but show everyone

how much they deeply care

about all those affected

~

so spare a thought & pray

for the ones that terrible, terrible thing

left in a terrible mess

a brief history of codswallop

codswallop was invented
in eighty three a.d
by an old roman fishwife
called codswallopia

codswallop’s the musings
of a confused confucius
or the simian key
in a monkey puzzle tree

possibly that saturday
in a month of mondays
big bang cultists
– the reductionist brigade ( gasp )

codswallop is banned
in belgium & azerbaijan
throughout the isle of sark
& parts of botswana

codswallop’s the reason
why i shout at clouds
hedgehogs fly with pigs
& some folk wear face-nappies

codswallop’s – a love sonnet
or a branch of d.f.s
with no sale on
because of all those mud-floods