I smell rats in news apps how senses sometimes surprise while one’s raining summer fashion dries on a radiator of malfeasance all mouth and trousers in an ancient regime monkey pox or monkey dust greenhouse of use double Dutch certainly the Friday feeling especially at non events in Wales an ambient potato field second homes aghast antlers at dawn bombed by rogue agents a small sculpture of death with a bow thank you for watching what the cost living is doing no talks or agreements in sight Liverpool is ready stir before use profiteering rife once upon a time in merry England time to be understood time to be misunderstood standing under a ritual tree with a singing detective fading away like shit in the river and where is Edward H Boring when he is needed? selling everything I get my hands on duke it out with assorted aristos the grope of wrestling the choke of manual strangulation the grapple of grapeshot of making one’s voice heard in the clamour of infighting the unsettling of coronets etc etc ad infinitum world without end pity nobody told us I could have saved some time though am not athletic enough to shave nanoseconds from my going suicide not an option while a slow delicious self destruction is doggedly so as long as the price is right
Snippets in Lawn Mower Time
Government found dead on Greek island after big election win feuding Tory MPs warn disco queen to be suspicious of the silver fox in the fab dungarees a climate change minister in muted tribute to sacked tv presenter with mushrooms growing from the ceiling double amputee Gurkha at Everest we can but admire and aspire waiting in line to post a parcel whilst wearing shorts if he’s the Mick Jagger of the literary world then Erik Red is the Jack the Ripper of Welsh mumbling look for pink pyjamas in woodland search a reservoir for the missing girl she’s got the Mercedes Benz issues with reservoirs flooded into a national discussion I look at the wind making the trees dance in sun light it could be the sea bottom if I were to allow myself to sink even further it’s nearly June and winter blows cold can one be driven mad by the weather? DNA assured they tell me is that like carbon neutral or sustainably caught? occupiers are preoccupied the bigger picture it’s right there I’m pointing at it! riots still persist to show we exist police only appear in military guise incurable doctors prescribe a cure the selfless selves in Fergie time every night is a blessing more than a curse for the soul incompatible for the patient when does an entertainer stop being an entertainer? not when they are disgraced but when they are buried in secret denying us the last laugh a photograph purporting to show a tasty burger looks more like an exploded giant slug or raw sewage married to a bun that seems to have been singed I won’t be eating there no one is beyond words I’m sorry to have to tell you by using words QVC beauty has moved as news alerts sound unheard
I Have a Crown But Don’t Talk About It
Vintage Dressing Room Set with White Leather Strap via The New American Women of Paris and the New England Women’s Dress Design by David in a Black Dress with White Lace and Gold Bracelet with Black Gold Finish by the South Shore Hotel in South Shore Beach in the USA Area of New Jersey City in the South of South Bay of the South Jersey Sea and the West Indies Cricket Board’s annual report for this year which was issued in July this month said that there were about four million tourists in the region who have not yet arrived from Australia bazooka gadzooks and are still waiting on a visa ectoplasm from their parents who will take them back dwarfed by a giant spider in a small bowl colour scheme that looks just right zoomed up to match your face vinegar with a spray bottle of vodka relegation a little more than usual local and regional and national underwater fishing vessels have been deployed cult members in several areas of the island lovers rock with a passion for music I’m sure you’ll find them a great deal more this way if you’re looking to make a difference during the pandemic then you’re going through attached pictures of people you don’t like it takes me three or four stanzas to approach meaning these days with no apologies dirigible balloons over maps that misspell place names the insult persists subconsciously and cartographically pomp and thrones at times that suit them the lord be with you and your diamond hat we live in a poorly manufactured Medieval fairytale so where are my wages for the part I play in this one thousand year deception?
Inside The Rubble Factory
Because the other guy was just saying that you don’t want it to happen before the end of the year so that’s what you need to do go to a jokes fair away with the fairies and all that jazz pyjama aimed maiming the trouser legs buried treasure trove dovetails with a black leather strap on a white shirt didn’t win a Grammy but not surprised don’t stop the music runaway aristocrat I get it but there’s no escaping the earthquake swarm attend a bad behaviour course as part of your sentence thirst 4 love shake to activate be that shake ‘n vac I’m a big believer in the concept of being the only one who knows the truth about what happened to the earth in a way that is not surprising this is futility but I insist on persistence patience half a lamb smudged spectacles advancing fingernails the utility and stomach needed to get through the news each evening evensong mini head studies 1 comment that looks delicious more rubble than you could ever need forces us into an altered relationship with destruction and its agents a New Stone Age a reward for our efforts uninformed in energy efficient caves with hellish panoramas back to the past despite the possibilities buy a fighter jet if at a loose end or a midget submarine the ocean as an alien world the sky equally mysterious but we trash them both so well oblige certain MPs to live on a nurse’s salary for one year and see what they think then food banks my country’s most dynamic industry now that Brexit has f***ed us over and some people are calling us a banana republic though some fruit and its harvesters are in short supply at the time of scrawling I decline a passport my veins as trees as rivers explains a lot work with what one has or yield to the vacuum that threatens your thoughts take back control of yourself sunlight spears thick blue glass bringing a new blue time in its rays walk with mercy and mercy will walk with you
Imperial
5 key moments in monkey grooming the Government that was not a government the managed decline of hard fought for protections ambulances replaced by corpse wagons and cardboard cut out trades description acts welcome to the new Wild West of No horizon and watching the money being dredged from our shores and sucked from our pockets but does my bum look big in this anti poem? take a moment to recall one’s heroes excess death I had my fill choose life the t shirt once proclaimed Ok the sidelined colonies that demand nationhood rich enough to be still shackled to their conquerors but not rich enough to go solo the blame the West attaches to Putin and his Wagner group music the ingrown toenails of mercenaries and the toxic minds of their minders beset by nostalgia was it better back then? the lion sleeps tonight the railway children before the Beeching report the smell of old books and record inner sleeves what did they experience? a security tag on a whisky bottle what are they trying to tell me? in the darkness of January and of these times it’s hard to decipher Stuart Adamson son of Adam Richard Jobson son of Job bible thumbed boys begat by bagpipes in unpeated moorlands of fiction with filaments of tosh and baskets of dashed dreams grain as our main ingredient urinate on Cabinet members except when they are on fire to wake them up in the lie factory not mint just alloy war is always there the deception of peace customer service is obligatory a top fan meaninglessly when people share a name with a famous person who actually is good at something they should magic in their skill sets and live a renewed life as someone else while the other suffers a fall in ratings and is no longer invited onto chat show sofas using the acronym for the People’s Republic of China no further scheduled deliveries but deny the existence of sin live in a strengthening wind and what it carries I will will this analogue works but wheels fall off and pigs in blankets lose their blankets I dance among the tree stumps with the dandies and the dainties I exist in the Old North no one knows where I am how maps are redrawn with each military manoeuvre or population change the many uses of paper wipe your bottom with imperialistic designs tell them where to shove it make like a child as that is how we are treated pathetic paternalistic pricked waiting for cars to seize up on crumbling roads as infrastructure becomes skeletal bonus tracks for the age of infantilization I was there too you didn’t notice me in my Old North my cloak of invisibility my mother made me move from window sill to mantelpiece to TV stand like an escaped budgerigar free but not knowing where to land the feeding of the 5000 strikers industrial action as necessary rebellion I say archipelago why don’t we say archipelago together? archipelago archipelago archipelago archipelago I am on Holy Island not Holy but essentially an Island it’s raining and turbulent but it’s January so what were we thinking? how to identify country lanes in twilight it’s not that difficult when you put your mind eyes and memory to it upping one’s game has some merit but is ultimately pointless when no one else is in the game apart from an ever hopeful bogeyman I used to be twenty feet tall now I am a mere sixty two centimetres that’s what hyperinflation can do plus clothes sizes are challenging when we had toys called gonks the carefree but at the same time hesitant apprenticeship that is childhood a half century back is history but still uncomfortably us those rifle ranges of those days who were they aiming at? weather forecasts of the Cold War we are the forecast in more ways than one we are the weather that we invited in archipelago archipelago archipelago archipelago all our gunboats lined up stuck in 1914 I don’t want to be and anyway I tend to get a little seasick Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem a new year a new fear a new tear a new here and now no one wants to talk anymore lack of communication leading to misunderstanding and murder I didn’t tell you so the dark mornings like they never happened happen again and briefly dismay us learn to live without illumination as it has become unreliable of late I stand on this land it has risen up at one end and sunk into the sea at the other I don’t understand geology geography and equality and hope we don’t slide off tectonic plates tectonic plates tectonic plates tectonic plates I am not on any frontier though I have flirted with a couple it’s hard to know where to be where one is and where one used to be musicians and athletes who die young it breaks my heart countries invaded by others it breaks my heart an animal or child maltreated it breaks my heart the disappearing world it breaks my heart breaks my heart breaks my heart breaks my heart breaks my heart
Confetti Minded
Huff pigeon poo loop a hay gay for it hate heifer jetty [he the quiff cow] educate guilty you jaded hood opt queen olympian cuckoo queue for an eye op quieten JCP comms when 800 workers and why 83 judges jail hey scoop weak wickedness heave a kiwi figment of widget Quebec house of sausage jump up jerk up quip apple phenomenon jay oppose giddy up [you hype on Lego legs mopping up] Jekyll and Hyde pull the wool over our Jack Yaqui he pleads poverty lowering his frenetic flag oh my hen pray thrice for an aurora to brighten this remote fracking its quirks swapped for a pea (why a pea?) West Wales waste buoy offset solar pales pets in postage stamp pyjamas the equity is inter city pew envoy gets up printed and economical oh to post oneself to another destination or receive salvation from one’s laser printer win or lose or something in between yep owl it’s a hoot topical tropical troop manoeuvres as we try to sleep plead year 5 in the age of invisible fascism prequel 25 boys the lionesses quantity fry an atom 29 opponents hum the legends what toilet brushes wasted for him and hymns an oaf inked Cleopatra opera worry [Radio Times quite rotten the QE 2 part] yomping worms rest in peace PSJ rumour purity with gangling ought plan Rwanda piqued PR at QPR tip top tip toe equipped tower Putin muffled album no bag no platform curt blurt far right nightingales stir fry hacienda cagoule able unwilling toggle and raw junk rug vigilant pubic kukri will [relish ] this gulped autumn 2 tubas outvoted et tu tramp on 2p Etna or Eton 24 ops in 5 minutes North of something misplaced nippy on eg egg edge neon Iiquid homosexual 5 tonnes mind awry on your honour wind in trooper prompt quitting copped it to it OPPENHEIMER on K2 belly pork primitivism roles cut up about it white heat Buenaventura Durruti the Durutti Column Opec Plus putty potty quip BP ebony blunt pilot Poirot wire wry wow pretty itsy trope wire royally the growing pie wry equations Leo paltry worry me pry vapour as it is a nugatory act rotate levitate epilogues or ooze gory packet pet foodies pivot prequel Cowboy weighbridge Toyota pump it up for it is written on a cigarette packet on the picket lines of our laughter in the kingdom of confidence tricksters oh porter an opportune tap over the top mod jacket togs petulant quota inept pepper to vapourise an etymology of a promotion a meow too much pelican crossing puke gut rot navy Percival probably vintage Japanese vape koala [Uruguay high priestess] pin it on me [RECIPE] Nairobi [emote-horror oven in your hutch Italy parkway tied Equator] requisition non textual fealty and I do like a wedding the hope the dresses the dressing up the belonging the confirmation that it’s still ok to have plans the confetti and its before and after lives we avoid the quid boys event rota rotary do 10 skid marks at dawn for charity for something your tax payments should have covered rascal perp Mr Samson happens more Reynard than man piano mover move mine PVC heritage water power propped up piquant pratfall quote remote boy people Romeo wimp Roy was his name big top woop woop Parable Olympic whampomp tent worn pathological ugliness UV fudge vault wicket unconfidence virtual wart largesse wobbly bribe lieutenant plural upon echo choir write up a whip really! potpourri mop swop to ease zealot queuing mordantly quince of otter tuition way priority old rugs July turbulence herb hedge gerbil 87 why rub you why not by numbers you why nebula number 78 numb 7 times any wonder no no January JFK gerontologist jostle weekly peony snow rue jewel junta ark article ankle weakened lung 6 punctures on a saint’s birthday 6G pipe duffle coat geyser dirty 7 take refuge king queen titular nanny state the way ripened knees polyp accessories the ossuaries that kept you prevaricating web pray tell make well a 1951 pew squalor guild guilt cloak fulfilled Hell heal bradawl ghetto of riches that left you unprepared how to you a lopsided shed in Tyrol get off your TV your yurt hurts a fig guy uh? you yoga Gipsy pituitary IOU Ohio huffy deluxe retired toy arsenal defying gravity give devolution of pop up pythons bivouac tiny op obsequious snoop a zero dip dogfish woof woof POwer whopper piety Weobley castle money pot opt out quip quip Iroquois trudge wig-rote get Gerry a sandwich Peshawar naan replete EU who ? jog TWIGTWIG jazzed in the caved in Zone lozenge coveting a Panzer lustre Dr Hip digs papayas in Sudetenland farmland hijacked by piffle on the hoof [prized and priced in] maybe Keith Bennett will not come home where did you go sweet boy in the passes the geology of your decade? we’ve been waiting and will wait we who got away taboo 1979 riot by mulatto dart hoity toity wagon wheeled leopard violet quote elf army urban ruined journey none in town a fistful of P45 yell your indignation sweat your essence pommel and pummelled your ire into a QWERTY word sequence the merciless trousers who wears them? a QWERTY word sequence tired a QWERTY word sequence heap your own scrap ass fought ling fished lurked insomniac the bebop of our age an enunciation ululating like chicken necks ping pong onion aggrieved opining Iago Rio de Janeiro our jaws gaping the time we spend waiting pork and dandy atheist and incomplete INRI oh Johns of Happening I like the sunshine of autumn he offered from his shade Felipe EP power pop of Dark Age don’t go all AK47 on me or an awful kosher hoarse UK UFO that pirouettes tomb wards minor oak houses your shite moping whisk and shout islands hopped worthy iron unequivocally burrows into Vietnam view quitting Tovali as emotional ivory wired whirlpool sink in provocations POWER viper image of pit workers vomiting their labours on posh quotients convoys of pitied yeomen toyed with perfunctory partition of perfume affiliations tinny Tokyo toy with tiny figurines pivot or pout if you want to get out quicksand does it Alpha rhythm Bowie tie prime neckless necklace just buy buy buy nun elope I vie tremulous moment mow imp Troy tumult TNT iniquity to bomb railways got them queer motorways and their micro ecologies peeping Tom my mother’s pet preliminary report quibble bobbing war South Pole of my allotment quoits of a year appear probably like ivy from an offspring bop nowhere in irony a moose guru with caviar as an avatar you putty po faced point of no return pigeon holed but no feathers no rudder you will fall not fly flagging slop and slap just a fop the pod agenda former USSR user farcical quayside how proud a wit or opinion aspirin operatic operative wobble wobbly pie wards inhibited jut the time the quotes hypotenuse times nine times ten weird words are my friends a jar of deep booze organ grinder will pot piss PDF take note tagine croak get out diet equity total you up repose no Ponderosa hiccup opiate reject Egypt yo-yo wild where is wild? quo with the status a dowry down payment why a warrior warps this witwicky ivory and whip who replies them loopy personages past present orgy groupies Pinocchio popes or you poor pOET peewee wee wee [Yeti boy hey you=U] I rapidly deploy the Toad Police department to port septic tanks Wi-Fi air fryer cuteness now obsolete an oboe in damp climes werewolf pop emanates Merchant Navy bravery jamming hired broadband provider a nuts merchant vessel never a Maharaja Joe wait until you atone on your toes grout the plot line and pick u an august gorged paw roaring piety at the Top of the Pops jocular joust you mimed like the best of them welcome wipeout TV bare boned epaulettes vague but just about remembered Lo! Lake Perky pipes memories of water [WORRY lobbied not voted] keeper vanquished Tutankhamun vole pier promenade or jolt to stop to rip loose on VD Row a street in our capital city like any other proper proper proper propeller my I probe and prowl the corners of your bio of roaring seas the eye patched life expectancy of a whisky bottle not Barbary the pity of you plied by warmonger clans of anti growth war gamers tepid inTibet prisoners of war Yom Kippur the envoy wave to Utopia opt out of power dressing pop popping up pup you pupae of janitor tut tut damn way quirky but why? joke yonder’s wig quiet what marketplace lemonade Lake Empty full of sorrow Caligula pops up in London Heathrow Amen yeah I had been drinking in the Golden Headache…..
The Commons
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?
My Home is My Head My Head is My Home 