lost keys & micro-pygmies

i needed to go out - SHAT

but where's that bastard key?

after rummaging through pocket-land

i moved onto the settee

then i lifted up the cushion

& there to my surprise

underneath were a crikey previously unknown

micro-pygmy tribe





i queried an elder

'have you seen my key?'

he lobbed the ickle-tiniest of spears 

at me

which i almost felt

- 'shit-aaah y' twat'

so in retaliation

i sneezed back





(it's still missing)

...





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

...