To A Smile

 

Run towards subtle joy. Congratulations under glass. 

A thousand year old Quran. 

Let’s take a walk together. We three. Me and my boys. 

Into the crowded museum’s ancient aura of tourism and coffee and wooden buddhas. After the bookshop but before incense. 

Must we make the same mistakes and is it taking without giving? 

What the hell are we learning here anyway? That gold was gold is gold? 

Fashioned in stone or precious metals signifying the ticket price minus two children plus lunch. 

Forge a new future from beetles' wings and alabaster to recast failure with bitter contempt. But walk on. Breath fire. Spread joy like ashes in the air. 

 

 Flying Buddha’s Revenge & Rebirth on the Blackwater Beltway

 

Dreary below

supine beneath deep banks

loping along the essential estuarine curvature 

ripping over the horizon

let’s be homeless on acid and belt the cosmos out of here

jumping through hard loops

bending out on time 

stumbling emergent into

incomparable fissures

legions of floating unrest

solidify on your breath

curling up to floating star light

hot essential phosphorescence  

hungry for everything abject

sitting quietly

on the door step of an endless milky night.

 A clacking sound, no,

 a beating sound,

 

in the rafters

 

 trivialise things always

 

yet stay entranced

 

 by hypnotic violence.

 

This day 

 

 

          of orange 

                               dances. 

connects earth to the lungs

       just bags of air?

bags of you

the same albumen is all over that opens 

the doors to a ruin?

             

               Blood pressure is 

                Brackish,

Piety softly driven insane by innate survival instincts,

Slowly introduce succour to the subject of a new nothing. 

Pitched towards the horizon goal.

Shopping push your way through heavy fruit; swoon against the 

protest flow.

 

Meanwhile 

 

discomfort ignites new folk horror aberrations

we watch the bladed stagger from grub to grub into white light 

beacons of harsh tranquility.

 

The returning images are just:- 

 

Mad  park avenues lined with bird shit. 

The undignified body groaning.

Bones creaking with remorse. 

Fumbles finding fury in perm-a-frosted moorings.

Up before dawn.

Something going on.

Never before like this.

 

SLOB STORY

The continued cough, a shallow echo all day for at least month. Like a shovel being driven into wet shale on a deserted building site at dawn. 

 

I would like to use the bathroom but know that there is somebody in there. Silently taking up time on pointless preparations. It makes me angry.

 

I have waited patiently for this moment.

 

For the contents of language to spill out across the counter. You scramble to pick them up and pile them back into your purse.

 

This does not alarm me, this shedding. Or it could be cells multiplying into a malignancy that breathes a shade: sobbing into the soothing darkness of a mid-winter afternoon, in Bloomsbury.

 

Somewhere you don’t belong. Picking up a pamphlet.

 

Off we go and away with consciousness.

The flesh that binds us to the bare bones of reality. 

 

Is all there is; 

 

all there ever will be. 

 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.

 

 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?”

 

 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.