The dark side of a stallion and the tempered glass foreheaded ones who lead us into temptation in the melting cable TV box sets that used to be our Earth point your cameras at the spectres do it so much your life becomes invisible but at least you have the pictures to show that you were there behind the lens behind the moment waiting for a waiter planning for a planet longing for belonging saving for salvation I thanked the admission clerk for my visit to Camelot at Wroxeter he got it not many would history the preserve of the gatekeepers of permitted knowledge but my story is not red spine blue lettering the Romans were here as were the Britons woad on woad blue on blue the theft of the commons the ongoing annihilation of the commoners the persecution of the commons’ women because they knew healing and they knew learning because the Church of Men feared them my grandmothers my mother my aunts my sister my wife
Cant
My canon of work scan through a Canon camera lens as cannons blast the cannon fodder munched frantically dancing the can can of survival in the technological financial militarised state my can of worms elicits canned laughter but it’s not funny any more as cantankerous tank divisions divide on tin can avenues of declining worker wages I carry the can for no can do to say it’s been worth the wait is untrue can you come over? I won’t be in so in my place I’ll leave a recanted cardboard cutout in the event of an event of politician cant falling silent
Blank 5
Grave digging but louder my familiar and avatar blank 5 the blankets in a dog crate rise up to meet me to haunt me on a Tuesday when I am free he asks me about bondage in art I say it’s up to him but leave me out art as performance performance as art living as neither dead TV actors still on my screen no escaping them and their hang ups pity I couldn’t do that in real life or maybe I do when you’re not looking slight of hand jiggery pokery of cockiness codpiece and chips meeting with my maker the inspector of spectres warranty issue to chew over still selling an anus’ anus resurrected airliner crew member they keep hanging around louder than a lodger who doubles as a supremapharmacist apparently human remains broke bread then funked re enact the previous decade as all popular culture does me too voucher for a future thanks a bunch don’t spend it all at once though it will soon be worthless press home to unlock blank 5 gone up to 14 in supersonic inflation summer not keen on it this year amputated bag of negatives turned into a positive
Food of The Unthinking
Bowdlerise a fast spin bowler in a bowler hat when science is not an exact science so could algae help avert the energy crisis? Honda genuine accessories open box magnolia monkeypox the English Civil War revived share a drink with Sheila na gig while the Queen attends her own funeral the Medieval period still in vogue but not with this son of appliances Wroxeter Viroconium namaste name test voice of Alan Shearer friend requests from enemies how to join NATO blade and boss please instruct me how to cook or let me eat cake who’s your daddy? the view through the bottom of a whisky glass I would have liked to have been an archaeologist that would have got me closer to the earth and further from trouble or joined NATO career advice of caribou action plan of Harry Horizontal just who’s your daddy?
The Other One
My other self wins hands down the truth again that was forgot so I grew a beard heavenwards so that it hid my tired eyes curated to conceal a day at the racists just look at them jump those fences then fall and break their Grand Nationalist necks chew amnesia pills whilst Adirondack headed on a bus that travels only in reverse I feel giddy as I spy the bums lined up resigned to their fate force my mind to recall false memories crowd these libraries of thought subsumed by dust that defies cleanliness or clarity and share a glass of milk with Acker Bilk the milk of human kindness to the udders of enslaved species strangers on shores fast flooding cultivating camouflage hair to hide from the encroaching enemy if you still have the energy for self preservation for privacy of your enigmas I grew my beard for Heaven and nothing else
Sabre Rattling on a Sunday Afternoon
Chittering thousands without power space pictures taken from a missile nightlife would erode my values responds to pregnant reporter injured in dog attack freedom declining at breakneck speed the right to disconnect new insect find future of cash Johnson: do not rescue farm animals two days after Greek ferry fire take down my naked photos run from apparent shelling how do I claim for damage? trapped in a home I couldn’t heat she pants plans biggest war very very likely and very very imminent requires big psychological leap exhilarating brawl in grudge match come to window during rescue to prepare for a united Ireland I escaped hell haunted by fear it’s an ominous sign Britain’s most dangerous roads hippos descended actors vow to carry on after tense final who made the earth better dies aged 39 lived in a forest for 30 years pharmacists say abuse ban on foie gras and fur reborn after pioneering gene-editing treatment faith helped during depression spur gambling closing ceremony as wind warnings issued her killer ex he pants I dance to cope
Oppenheimer
I am become death he said and then ushered in a death as terrible and swift as any previously imagined in the annals of history and the pages of early science fiction I am become Erik Red I said and unleashed an empty crisp packet of stale chip shop air into the desperate debate on when we should permit our self destruction the Queen is dead The Smiths said me a lifelong anti monarchist imagining a regime change where equality blooms in our remaining decades
Document of Surly Disposition
Ding ding Crazy Frog to make a comeback he sold away his people’s heritage fishing site hacked to show pornography press green to watch from the start millions of streams but just two songs looted art claims pose questions what’s in short supply and where? mission to smack a space rock is set to launch we don’t want to go to Zumba we’re punks motorway frenzy after armoured car spills money the only way to brag about your great American road trip is to buckle up and do it don’t call young people woke do more to end North South divide hit by shortage of condoms the David Attenborough of darts I didn’t hate Britain what the cast did next dredging up World War Two rage across Europe bear shot dead by 70 year old hunter school bus experiment brings hope kidnappers release two missionary hostages await JFK Jr’s return from the dead I don’t think anyone has a clue about what they’re doing we’ve got Raul back deny basic services to unvaccinated we’ll be jabbed recovered or dead how SUV mowed down parade goers how to stop caring cleared of 1949 rape charge recalled to prison after approaching young women playing trans role was a mistake scrap male and female categories praising Peppa Pig how many changes are you making? activists posted her address online prepares to deflect asteroid for the first time
Please Explain Sleaze to Me
Servile ski every vote served up by plankton eating rulers under the belt of Sport in order to get back into your room for a few days skunks the same thing as you scum your heart to the head shell out in a small hole and the back of the hill is a hole in the wall in your head I am innocent you heard it here first preferring animals to humans and ghosts to citizens breathing the same empty air as me Subbuteo war crimes tribunal childhood cough mixture sadness Sunday school madness flat footed athletes bully brilliance taking it for the team by taking it from the team surgery in the near shell of a tree sucking a bit too hard Thurston is going on a trip Erik I am sorry for your confusion a satchel is a good friend of mine sleaze eases my pain slobber about in a dainty haircut dancing in my room at the same place
Lighting Up
Electricity Bill experimented with his left leg customized it so that it doubled up as a lamp pimped up to bestow him guidance and a limp this made walking difficult and his movements more circuitous but when he was tired and darkness had settled in for its night he would lie back and raise that limb so that it illuminated him with his own radiance attracting moths and creatures that wait in shadows to the flame that he had become
My Home is My Head My Head is My Home 