Grimbeau

Scroodles

The Joy of Sax

Phew!

So much to do

and

no point in any of it;

just plain old survival;

avoidance of mishaps,

relief from pain relief.

No simple sample pleasure.

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Eleven it says:

Morning constitutional

To the shed and back

Phantom bouquet

bonfire smoke whispering

Secret trysts at noon

Thrilled to bits I don

A cloak & gagger…

 

*

Phone calls to invite me to luncheon;

of course,

I accept with  puerile alacrity.

What ensues is vintage time warp!

Clear the decks for a couple of hours;

put pressing needs on hold;

suspend more disbelief.

 

*

Hot colouring book trend offer:

one legged dormouse to play Plato;

Dizzy the Womble pours scorn…

Exasperated! Go touch your heels

Take odd drugs on a building site

Discover unknown places

 

 

Neruda Dada

twenty-seven drafts

i ask you

twenty seven drafts

Shut the feckin door!

i ask you

i think you

understand

 

*

life itself

is so hard

out near here

*

when  the bedouins

bought my sequins

it crossed my mind

something was awry

‘thence i placed

a gingham

tablecloth

on my jihad

and danced

insanely

just like

peter O’TOOLE

for dosh

Hush-Hush!

Eleven she says:

‘Morning constitutional

To the shed and back…’

*

Phantom bouquet

bonfire smoke insinuates

‘Sneaky trysts at noon…’

*

Thrilled to bits I don

my invisible purple

Cloak & Dagger

Affluenza

Black as night at five

as I rose and chose a coffee

from the selection of available liquids.

With this I had a cigarette, which I made myself:

harvesting, drying, processing leaf,

making paper in a big blue pail,

extracting gas from my bio mass.

An exhaustive process

often interrupted by the need

to release toxic waste from the corpus.

~

On arrival upstairs in my lift

the day was revealed as misty

and the streets sweat wet.

I dropped my lighter on the floor and left it,

vowing to retrieve it later

with my extended manual claw.

A cursory take on the news

clarified the extent of yesterday’s huge explosion in China.

Jim Al Kalili showed me around Sellafield

nuclear reprocessing plant and availed me of a

brief history of nuclear energy.

He looks very like a frog.