Grimbeau

Scroodles

Category: Poetry

Waterlogged

Rainy day runaway

wild raspberry soaking wet

sodden eucalyptus

light damp fires

squatting hunkered

grounded primal musk

eyes whitened

scouting dense nature

alert to predator & prey

after the weir

As well you know

Only too well

There are certain things

That it is

Too hard to tell

That’s what surprised me

About technology

*

Just for example

The mystery of silence

Clever blank guarded

Gruff still responses

From a noisy lathe

When woodbine ash

Melted your cheap nylon shirt

You scowled adult

Chimpanzee

*

Big thing found out

Soon swallowed

in a brice instant

like we are more scared

of being found out

than death itself

go take a look around

Thames Dutton

The

Weather caster

Concerns me

Peculiarly

Plausibly gesturing

With ersine feedback

Grumph

Brrughm

Hands

Amos Quito?

So, this is wroot

To derendes epoch

Saline killllls water

Lanbs breed slaughter

Majesty

She walks in duty

Carmelite

Breaking wind

When no one else is there

Just like the queen does

Otium

Time

&

I

are

warm, fed, filthy.

Clean up afternoon

about to commence…

Flood!

Gas! Gas?

An bumbling of Ecstasy

Gerald the duds!

I.e. –

extraneous clobber, tea-cloths,

spoons, spinakers

& various other

absorbent materials

must be procured!

-Water’s pissing out

the cunning light bulb…

All may perish in electric shocks!

*

After something of a flurry

(containing an ill-timed phone call

about a flat tyre outside a Service Station)

I eat ready salted crisps and listen

light-hearted

to ‘A Night of Bear Mountain’

by

What’s ‘is face (must Google that);

then,

with the dripping ceased,

I read about mixed bathing in Minehead,

Giggled modestly & boiled

a kettle for more old, new spuds,

As I smoked

chainlessly thinking

poached salmon, solitude,

garden peas and Otium…

Sphinx Gang

Round eleven it burns down

The engines are turning,

churning up

dormant subterranean turtles,

laying flat kerbs for giant cars,

upheaving monitor eggs,

yellow men

coral them in sandpits,

soon they’ll be hatched out

by stray, broody ostriches

weary, careworn nomads,

whose ivory gonads bristle

in brutal

municipal sackcloth

bend to add

another egg to the pyramid

Malingering

There we are.

After

Full four waking hours

nothing written again.

Okay,

I’ve done a bit around the house and person:

read some news,

thought a lot,

disowned a BMW,

yet…

*

no words yet.

Scarified a singing cake?

No, me not neither.

The Runner beans flower lurid,

linctus thick,

sickening dayglow orange.

The Lemon leaved shrub tree fast asleep.

Eat – 08:49.

Postponed (onset catatonia)

 

Opus Day

I hurt myself

Today

to see if I was real

Beats a day alone

Listening to the trombonist

Waiting on a serenade

*

Yes, a moon light

serenade plays

Puce sunset sporting

rotating knives

cops my eye

naked colonnades –

 you get the idea?

*

Under this a small crouched mammal flits

(though one simply

cannot be sure

for certain in

neon septic light);

were I forced.

*

Struth

(yet again!)

to hazard a guess

I would say an

anteater or

a stumpy mule

philandering

 

 

 

 

 

Sheer Roodness!

they knelt

they pondered

grimfaced

other wordly

odd