‘…beyond morning hip
aches due to flat air mattress
getting round much better
even though its much wetter
today than yesterday
and that was quite wet itself
compared to last Saturday
when there was barely a cloud
on the horizon…’
Out he mistook
himself & melted
as butter used to
into buttercups
~
Ever so far off
lone agonising
over nothing much
worth speaking of
came a familiar tune…
‘Unstiffen & stretch the legs
While you are at it
Physical jerks
Physical jerks
Come in from the cold
Wrap yourself up well
& put on the scattergown
Dressing not ballroom
Taffeta and glitz non-u
Cold sunshiver morning
Luminous lime lights
Empurpled crippled moonchild
Hanging on the wall
Venetian Tryptych
Daytripper nick-nack…’
~
No tell me about that Mouse Song
“there’ll be blue turds over
the white cliffs of Dover…”
where hollow crowns & throne games
saltpetre the ether &
small good women are slain –
sacrificed for the cause of what?
A bunch of Silly Bully Boys
at sport just finding out
‘Whose good or bad at games…’
took the plunge read some
WH Auden – proper poet
shrank back in my shell
after recoiling from the truth
Sometimes I could weep
when I see through clear glasses
what a state the world is in
Bloody solipsists
Telling me whats good, whats not
Feeling better already
Wes Montgomery
brings out the lounge lizard in me
it is late summer
overlooking Miami beach
thunderbirds crawl curbs
cruising palm lined palisades
we prefer Kent to Winston
all the colour footage lost
its integrity
over exposure they reckoned
just these few black & white negs
to recapture the smell of hope
we knew it could not last long
deep down in our heart of hearts
just glad this survived
juSt aftEr yoU thOught
It cOuld not Get ugLier
iT Ot uGlier
…
€nD of bLoGGin’
lOsT hat ovuM feElin’
& (K)nOw it’S goNe, gonG
G On g On gOn-GonE
s ur viv E
sT rive E
tH riv E
rE viv E
13:18…
since wHen
Dark begot Light·
Two hours liQuid Night-
Ate/ four rolls –
brown nice chewy
white yuck chewy·
Went out
& guess
What·
????
It raIned·
…came In
agaIn…
ummM·
D e f e r En dum (Ber)
Sausage, bacon, tomato in a brown bap.
Crucial glider crisis talks underway –
quite a tussle by the sound of it.
Day gone shady grey,
all hangs dangling in the balance.
How to plump?
Pros outweigh cons
and vice versa.
Alternatives to impasse:
half measures, no measures, more measures.
Thorny problem, telling points on both sides.
Sweep floor: time out, pause for thought,
check for rain, wait for a sign, a determinant…
indigestion breeds procrastination
h e R Sto r Y
rE peAts
iT s e l F :
1st time traG e D Y
2nd time b-M o vie
f A rCE
On midsummer’s day
In nineteen seventy six
Acting goatishly
During the heatwave
We did a rain-dance
Little did we know
What would come to pass
As we rolled in dry dog pooh
On biscuit brown
municipal grass
Sven up rose & shone
Doggerlandia sodden
under brilliant today
soggy mammoths roam
peach gold opaque dawn
open dirty window wide
sunshine dapples wet dog rose
Grizzly Bear squints back
Doppelganger encounter
Opposites attract
clouds act like dimmer switches
raindrops glisters wet dog nose
Sven turning thirty
Grimbeau 