f*cki*g *oems, *astar* th*ngs …

they hide behind bushes

then flash us unawares

then leg it off in the nud

somewhere over there




they sneak into our gardens

in the perverse depths of night

then in the middle of the lawn

they shit a massive shite




they babble next to us on buses

when loadsa double seats are free

clothed but recognizable

please stop bothering me




& so i shout through the morrow mist

as birds begin to sing

'SHAKESPEARE WAS A FRAUDULENT WANKER

- FUCKING POEMS,

BASTARD THINGS'

...







wild flowers among castle ruins

wild flowers

among castle ruins

the head's a beverage

thoughts-a-brewin'

as life plods on

& all that glibness

they say here's haunted

a wraith i've yet to witness

apart from the headless ones

consequences - quencecons

a punished uprising but now most of the stones have gone

as bricks for the local homes

scattered yet abound

like these wild flowers 

but the other way around

...

 

busy bodies

busy bodies

interferin' 

curtain twitchin'

window peerin'

stick y' nose in

stick y' oar in

t' fill in your gaps

'cause y'borin'

passin' judgement

with disdain

we don't do that

yet no refrain

instead y' tut

with god as y' witness

just fuck off

& MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS

...



where’s squalor?

yes god's still dead

& the newspaper read

ombudsman found living in squalor

but that geography

has been a mystery to me

with actual mist so beyond bare bones

i never really bothered

yet where is squalor

non-scholar - shit bother

i can't tell you shite where to begin

it's in the local rag

so we must be talking miles

is it near denial

or 'round the back of sin

?

...




a modest collection of little secrets

this little secret

was discovered in a shoebox

wedged in a hedge

in the nowhere of the middle

this little secret

it never really had a name

yet knew too much & ran away

i found it in an alleyway

this little secret

well this one takes the biscuit

it was passed down from a great-aunt

who i still don't know existed

& this little secret

was once a set of ten

before the other nine revealed themselves

it's not a secret then

...