Monday, 25 April 2022

 UNEMPLOYABLE

 

Light bathed in sweat

 

cut cancel or cure? Each rich conspiracy sits in meltwater.

 

And then when the noise rises up to greet us it’s already all over.

 

waiting for a new poetry to arrive an opportune moment

 

to commence yoga. Lonely blood vessels make shift ornery drift shoot

 

bloody ankle fuser a.k.a The Distance Man.

             

                 Cop three lines on a stolen photograph.

Clash of poor recordings dialogue manhandled Dictaphone clicking feedback

              arclight  fathom        dust quest distilled each one on the shelf

              quiet

gift consumption consumed after they died of consumption

    pleurisy a gift gas re-emitted after the emittance

stolen chomping movements food about the mouth falling

         gross like goblets cone beacons fresh bacon beckons

willing it so      

willing.              It so.

 

And we want them to turn around at the end and say,

 

“No, that wasn’t it at all.”

 

After all.

 

Sunday, 17 April 2022

 BANK HOLIDAY

 

Time slows 


A veil of insolvent ash dissolves 

 

the Skull 


driven to a pathetic trickle

 

Feel Hot 

breath 

bread winner 

 encircled halo

 

You are not the 


                                      castle is on your left

what you should be

 

 

Brackish waters


Communal houses

 

Adder ruins

water run off

 

over hardcore mounds

 

smashed 

 

 

Swollen thoughts

 

mutagens 

stepping 

 out rheumatic reflex 

relief

 lager party

 

 

Just add lager

 

         Branded life

Balloon lipped 



take owl out

 

fast 

The nails of small talk

going slow

 

Tipsy on the promenade


 tattle 

Infantilised 

                            Nothing is hard 

everything is easy

 nation of babies

 

barbecued piss up

 

 

Nothing

Slipping 

into nothingness

 

Two cones and 


a displacement of botanicals

 


 life limps on

 

"The carpark is full 

of foreigners"

Heraldry in sandwiches

 

Soaked doorway slaked with fat

 

 home 

 

This Pissy island 

 

 sun blind pitch up

Breaded cod

on the bus



 

Somebody open a window please

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 13 April 2022

DISASTERS, WITH EGGS (A MERGER)

 

time drips epoxy resin 

 

revelations uncanny                             

                                                    black horses, wild on the ridge

 

 

here before                                            chair collapses

 

we've been here before 

 

mostly we sat in our rooms.                         frantic skylark       knotted manes

 

Anglo-Saxon settlement

                                                  memory is invoked by manure

 

the kids watched TV 

 

furtive past crawled out to meet present                      tadpole dancing in puddles

 

                contorted

memory moved into place

                                                             family cells

carving up the vacant field

 

out behind the cabin

                                                           we stake a claim

 

 

nothing here apart from the birds                       oak 

furrowed time

 

 

also the smells

in this way we gouged a life.