Brighton


bloated red faced once a boy
white corpuscles exploding
friendless good timer plastic leather
on the train alone packs hunt at night

tudor gift shop

carrier bag overflowing churned over crap
expanding garbage delta swim lane
sucked down for optimistic  fun
retro oblivion victorian relics

flung down an old funk shute

street chip hunters greased up bingo wings
temples of rot growing daily
shingle crunch impact wounds
scarred for life by retro carrion

crows prosper gulls too

all is stink and waste bad taste abounds
cantata of grey uniformed servants
broach the back passages of a mildewed bookseller
ants raid a chocolate box grim faced academic on platform

recipe for incipient paper swamp

dime store hierophant rebranded as tantric sage
wounded by too much coffee and cake
juggling responsibilities as junk recycler plunged ready
fresh brewed without god sunk on a coastal fault line

in all this over baked potato wit

shimmering listless strata of white stucco years
encroaching crenelated wisdom booth through money
accept encode wisdom street prophets haunting
hopeless alleyways punching trees camped out in graveyards

all this and more whisper the willows

perplexing thoughts engulf the heat haze
pockets of burley sweat glands results on a horse
careless croissant skewers the gull
its as if were tumbling into the sea

ah well the guesthouse hopes it loves us back.