struggling for space to move or breathe as a passenger in a car packed with peas - yes far too many legumes hardly any leg-room ...
Poems
the punch & judy man
mother used to warn with the sterness of a storm 'please stay away from that punch & judy man yes - by all means be amused by his swazzley domestic abuse but never-ever-ever accept sweets from his hand or take him up on the offer of a lift in his van' everyone knew really ...
blubbering on
do not stand at my grave & weep as i faked my own death i aint 6 six feet deep there's a sack of maris pipers in the coffin down there whilst i live the high life new i.d - elsewhere so when you awaken in the morning shite for me it might be evening, early afternoon or night aye - so do not blubber at my graveside & that instead fuck yourself rigid you stupid fucking twat x ...
offerings (how to try)
offer your plans to the warm blue hands of confusion let it nurture them let them feed off its odd let it nestle them let it be their god then put this faith in the obscure things & the details like moss & lichen on a post an opaque stain on the dog-shelf the many traces of utmost & the rest should look after itself ... (author notes; dog-shelf is slang for floor)
on the almonds
batten up the hatches lock up your armbands lob aside your stabilisers experiment with marzipan but not frangipane start on that stuff first then see how sick you feel how much your head hurts it's very moreish ...
the monkey in me
Whilst climbing trees to feel closer to God & perchance clasp the beard of the cheeky old sod something simian stirred from pre-human history in its current Chinese year - it's the monkey in me. Yes, there's a monkey in me there's a monkey in you there's a monkey in the vicar & your mother obviously too as evolution does its things in regards to time & ape but we're not that different really 'cause everyone's primate ...
watching stars die
lobtailling, wassailing cloisters, spume, elbow grease. transpose, holy ghost, hydrogen - helium, thought, police. song, swan, wheelbarrows, buoy, ploy - hoi poloi! cosmic stuff, jigsaw, see saw blink destroyed ...
what friends are for
Let them eat Kate let them eat Dave let them eat Sue she's on the menu too. Let them eat Brian let them eat Ryan let them eat Hugh ideally in a stew. Let them eat Eve let them eat Steve spit roasted on a rotisserie. Let them eat Martha let them eat Arthur let them eat Clara - yes everyone but me ...
oh bother…
I've never worn clogs on a Wednesday or winked at an owl of an eve nor lobbed a potato at a bust of Plato yet many gullible people still they believe. That I often sing sea shanties whilst in Switzerland plus chuckle at their alpine mackerel skies these are a pack o' lies the usual shite - it's no surprise but whose behind these nasty vicious rumours & why? ...
sunday sermon
Many great tales shall remain untold there's cold in warmth there's warmth in cold there's sanity in madness & happiness in sadness plus misfortune in luck 'cause God's a fickle fuck. Amen ...