Friday, 15 September 2023

 Magnum Classic 

 

Hold hands in the burnt umber as Epping Forest Constables pass by clutching magnums in the sun shade. This is our forest birth right the horse dung decries. Two sugar lickers or hot chatting geniuses; while the stand-up comic places unnatural body movement in front of the camera. Close up on flammable parakeet green and red. Burst in like fly and destroy the ambience and it’s our world we’ll eat it up they fizz and crackle crashing against the window pain. You’re a grammar scammer don’t place your algorithms over this, pulled in a net to drag it back to hell. Follow the hard baked trail to the grotto’s mouth; the clock strikes three as we fart a collapse. Two jets collide falling upwards to the earth locked in a silent death spiral of mushroom clouds, messy tendrils and purple smoke.

 

Saturday, 9 September 2023

 Muscle in on Cape Verde shoals

 

The myth of memory sweeps away canonical 

 

leaves

 

Pining for the place of dead roads

 

Placed the mouth piece over the ventilator sparks

 

Your horror face lying like a cantilevered arch

 

The sonic luxury of band saw and bird song

 

The point being the flux between enough or

 

none at all.


Brutal dub strike 

 

“Was it our fault?”

 

Friday, 1 September 2023

 Spat upon the shore 

 

Another decade

 

Hot lakes of work, buggy trails, tears

 

Dark TV winters homely warmth

 

Gleeful fat fizzle

 

Two toes pointing skyward

 

Oblivion is our favourite show

 

The bottle drinks itself

 

Pram feelings stone the serial landscape

 

On obliging pavements we race

 

To the super market 

 

Humid stages of a scratchy world plan

 

Leaf mulch slippery under foot

 

The crying crayons are under-used

 

Stretching out in flight path ecstasy

 

Friends come around with wine 

 

Perform dark arts with fatty acids and emulsifiers

 

Cracked youth hang like wasted moths

 

Suspended in gothic draperies of debt and despair

 

You aloof and grimy scream I told you so

 

First the kneecaps go then the eyes explode

 

Keep crawling into language

 

Take a selfie

 

Try to know everything.