
Property is Deft

Cool shrooms and anchovy bisque,
homespun alphabetti spaghetti:
Sounds illegible
Cheryl really had pushed
the boat out this time
Always too keen to impress
She was a nutritionist from birth:
worst acne I ever saw
She wore a hood with slits
To see and breathe
Takes all sorts suppose
We call her Elephant Woman
But never to her face
Well I mean how can you?

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Any old iron from Madchester
presents private versus public school
a sniffy cult to keep tabs on so tell me do
Was time well spent preparing
before chapel of rest muzak
on a sunday afternoon
Stuck in a full blown fall down shack
spectating collective bouts of capricious
audacity dissolving like opioids in a deep sea squall?
That’s one hell of a question
to ask of one in the prone position…
when confronted by such a chorus of indifference
Why not just admit to it?
okay yes i got a good whack for being brash with hapless slaves when they got pollarded by lunatics who got their kicks for waving pooh sticks at with real pooh and got bashed up till the cows came home for milking and it was about then a replacement substitute was found abroad squatting on the shoulders of aphids; how seldom do us little apes
learn to carry on by candlelight at all?

someone sent you
don’t know why
to lick the wind
and smooth the sky
to ludic blunder
watercress
to alight upon
a summer dress

Crippled Brits seek exile in Berlin Alexanderplatz
First world third world slipway lowers
Ulster beseiged by ghoulish superflowers
Post American mercators draw up road maps & bridges
bellicose chartists split up
inner world found durable
weak Lorenzo weeps abundantly
over lost integrity
carbon free footwear found
unavailable on spec
hands and arms open pills while
the London Review of Books turns turtles
overnight while spiderwebs
dipped in liquid nitro stop slugs
Ailing muse gone walkies
down the labyrinths of Tyre
Repairs and ultimata
hang loose on the punic air

No urine today
No shit to swallow
Just lollop round
Chew cud ponder callow
No way to behave
On an indigent hip
Snooze on a marshmallow
Boat train to St Malo

Got underway yesterday with a pill.
Every day starts with a pill.
A pill and a coffee.
Then it begins.
The wide open vistas
on the Oregon trail
with an irascible Raoul Walsh
screaming blue murder at an empty horse
Overhead beyond the redwood canopy
an eagle soars majestic.
You could
not make it up…
Oh yeah?

Stevedores gently pulling loose goosebump gizzards thinking bout
a humpback whale off Margate passing
down
paradox lounge quiz
where bar lizards stroke florid
goosedown gizzards (close shave minus unctuous balm)
and mock at their impending peril
one armed bandits who rage like insistent purple gargoyles
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Footpads weave in empty handed and dodge loose change
begging favours of crazy saviours caught peddling hope to great white dope
at this stage soft cops burst in quelling din
take seats conducive to watch the fun begin when came a saucy dish
aforesaid fun begun just gone one
met a fishy saucy dish who one
found out later aroused an alligator who tried to sate her
When in came pater and caught said alligator
gnawing on a stubborn bone
pater was a well seasoned baked potato
too hot to handle so the cops looked around avoiding scandal lit a candle took a powder dipped their snouts in seafood chowder
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Green golden sleeves droop willowy supine over sable fable plots footpads trip light
elastic plastic flagstones sneak thiefs issue wily gulley giggles that plangnt echo ghoulish splatter dash off din dissolves
down
cobbled runnels that lead to slim air drains for whistleblown miasma sinuate and hoop lanes or squat incongruous proud arched in dainty floribunda sprouted from chipped brick gulleys and
apostolic posies…fistfuls of six, fistful of seven repel overspruced suitors who don Sinday best bib and tucker leer languid lurid hungry smiles
afterwards blissed beyond coyly found besplat with coal juiced cum sleet dripping by to pass on a promise of nevermore nookie in a coalshed wherein eternal blisses steal kisses contacting sublime lilting learned on all four
Things and everything you honour to dwell on for a parsec.
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Meanwhile downtown lithe Hope
springs eternal
thanks to electric shock therapy
Episode seven: The Rape of the Flock (The Lord is my Sheepdog…)
Ram goes Apeshit in Dudley Salterton (the only game in town)
Deaf Mango Party Pack plays a Humdinger de Luxe (sparkly sunburst finish)
Carpal tension quelled by stirrup pump & unction (knees up bruvvah Brown)
Going going gong…Squawky Flitch prevails brings on the main event (songthrush)
During the crash of two zeros eight perished queuing up for Northern Rock (creme de la creme)
Rejigged a lifetime’s savings. Rodgered away on the sly by de Cover Up retreat into
Insecure obscurity battening down thatched hatches weathering the storm that never stops
Hurricane Hooha hits Honduras
Twisters blister bayou lakes of Pontchartrain (again)
Langston takes the wavy air
Wibbly-wobbly from the mix of food & barbies Boris the Bulldozer Venal disobedience Hallucinatory? Deathrow expansion approved by ruling classes— all merry hell to break loose To govern and be governed to One way discourses are so Abortively pedantic