‘Your universal joint’s gone west,
its serious,
I’ll do my best.’
He frowned.
The tension was killing me
so I kicked it off
hard in the nuts.
It bolted.
You could not see its heels for dust.
‘I’ve cracked it!’
exalted the wheelwright
straightening up.
‘You had pre-stressed oil:
now you ain’t.’
I danced with joy,
it started raining.
The rain dance
is the only
dance I know
Fourteenth century tower
Greybeards playing chess with stones
Bad losers throw stones out windows
Kings, knights, bishops, pawns, rooks and Queens
Rain down on the heretic
Foraging for clues
Helicopters come
and go chasing
Michelangelo
levitate
saw her hard at it
hard at it now
like a pumpkin
up a frog or ferrets on a caterpillar–
you get what i mean? being deliberately guarded till epiphany mad sun breaks out —
just a few Nyankan huts left only croissant Ivy remains
Hard at it puffing
Much like a frog
Up a pumpkin
Posthumously
©Grimbeau
eye red
eye dread
eye wander
Arose strawberry dingle blue bell wood? bade sun warm belated ‘herzlich wilkommen– zu horen?’
reciprocation mouths swell big words such as prism rhythm malapropism — infant ill rock steady nasty notus puts a spring in it alright
rip up over written rondo
rumour loves demise still comes no matter tittle-tattle tongue twister
tickle tiny hooves beating wild sardonic
Shh-ssh-shingle
to lOve or tO Be
loveD That is the qUest(ioN)
(of) whEther (I) tis(Sss…)
noBlur RingS tHe mY en(mud)d to beaR
thE wotsIts & thinGummiEs
oF reGrunge aNd unctUous excretiOn…
cHorus (si’l vouSpLait the Lait)
siLilLoqO’qUoOozE
Neon lights down south prevent
naked dripping quills lament
bloated heavy vaper trails sing
pregnant lullablies brew ginseng,
(self-harmless charades, stone deafening elective boredom,
loose lipped mouthy toothless , upbraid misogynist gays)
manky moles crudely startle lazy worms like
old man Moses rotting down nice now deep down deep downsouth
GHQ sarcophagus, semi-detached suburb of the dead rhubarb-rhubarb breadcrumb trail leads nowhere much hairy arsed once proud) commanding views of turd strewn lawn,
abandoned taupe recliner, dog seeks receivership
dissimilar to previous for no transparent treason
he can bear to think of…Nice!
made history poverty overnight
gentle martial arts of war—
set scrimmages & slings
threw babies out with bathwater
pondered wood ploughshare tundras
jam packed prairies full of goats
undistinguished tree gods shag—
watch the weald churned upside down
cleaved a gurt big hole in Kent—
Glimpse sobriety
Contemplating lunch for brunch.
Boiled beef and parrots.
Overly ambitious
infatuation junkie
craving approval
~
Water drops on thin bare twigs,
silver globules adorn taupe.
Keep on until the
urge to coalesce passes
lazy morning lines
spaghetti conjuntions
Heft gift horse
Closer to big mouth organ
search chasm vowel trove
snag big cavities
gravelly amoral zones
found sound waves grooming baritones
vagrants flea from home to homes
furrowed growlers size us up and down
fibrillate afore ye go-go-gone
whysper do-be-do-be-done
flies walk over eyeballs
deaf stiff horse
Grimbeau 