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

...




thoughts on thoughts

thoughts come

most go

some throb

some glow

some prod

some bite

some come in pieces

some fight

some fright 

some charm

some bear gifts

with intent to harm

some abstract-mime

some dance

but often it's ants

in their pants





some sing

some wail

some want my mind

it's not for sale

some suck

with a straw

some dazejà vu

they've been in before

some spark

some extinguish

some talk all foreign

some dabble in english

some sneak in through the tunnels

some knock & say 'hello'

thoughts come

most go

...