urgh - Covid.
You are just a rock stopped, still, avoided as time passes and mocks, with looking-back laughs... ...and you sink, forgotten
Dress them in factory grey and shi… add a splash of colour to stop the… Introduce drip-fed thoughts and th… Teach them to ignore their mind an… Stay inside when it rains, cos it’…
We dream of nothing sleepwalk to the end speak to no-one only pretend In front of my eyes is a picture
It was a changing time the moon was high in your hair I didn’t know you then didn’t know the things you’d becom… and then we took our chance
Just a drop In the ocean Pretty pearl of glass Infinite reeling colours Inside
There was a dandy from Whittling who ate 3,000 peas in one sitting He finished and said “oh Dear” what a terrible idea and forever and a day he’s been si…
Vanquished, the night slides from… those cruel games over. In the thin sliver of winter warm this unkempt heir rose, clung close by the odour of night-…
Let the children sleep, so the world is eroded before our eyes alone by the anger, famine, bomb and war… of the bean-counting machines.
Write your name on the next bomb.… Wish for a child to hit. A hummingbird pipsqueak heart stop… A punch like a holy fist. Hold a used shell to your child’s…
I sent you a form, you sent it back, not enough paperwork, the wrong kind of tax. I send you a message,
The forest mist sits out of the car early man unsits from his car into boots on the groaning mouth of the boot
Toys of war bought willingly by those who wish to be part of something
A raucous laugh on a cigarette gus… A petal falling between the cracks… Playground bottles high as kites, What kids we’ve become. Doing time in the cells of mind,
All this talk, this chatter, this… back scratching, arse scratching v… bitching, territory marking, point… people boring, tit for tat, straig… out of touch, poker faced
The first gasp of potent air taken in, shocks and awes innocence.