We were looking for transcendence

But we found

Broken shells run away wind chime fragments of peculiarities waifs and strays

Curly and off this stance to be afraid no good

Nosferatu farts loudly it echoes around this belfry

Swinging up

The mad king sits on a throne of melting wax the tide reports at his feet

Curlews cormorants’ corncrakes picnic of periwinkles

Stagger into the village pub portable darts chamber

Potted guts please line them up aggressive contrarian swagger

unorthodox Jew takes flight still recoils from that shadow on the stair

wait “discover jazz” learn how to ring small birds dig in like a fox

back wheel spins out of control brown dirt rhythms deforested land

coelacanths’ cauliflowers and crustaceans these are a few

muster must make muster pass exams brave to thyself

fight yes fight always never flight

and never too jovial that’s a weakness

so pour it pour it out let’s hear it all

do we have a choice but yes it could be good again or like last night’s fish fry or last week’s potato?

or a TV series about Wales

what rot sentimental uncalled for please refrain tradition will not allow this make distinct please

rewrite please

dark inside the primitive hut. Winter no sun, tundra, but UK tundra, wastes, but lights in the near distance, pretends he’s a wild man, mates bring him snacks and cans from the shop, you can see the shop from the hut.

Make possession take music like jazz buy more but

Not for then moment like yes more jazz came now

Create jazz now like more jazz fun flicker

Take enough more drugs to get high

To like jazz in a new more possessing way

Is jazz too like then the more of jazz

But soon it breaks through and then you really know what you felt all along was a genuine affinity for jazz music and centrifugal empathy for its discipline and energy wow America you gave us jazz oh thanks oh thanks for the jazz music.

Baudelaire’s rag pickers

Phantasmagorical dusty with wisdom from every crystal memory vision

Every corner cupboard of memory

And this will end abruptly