Widdershins
This is it
Like a prairie
Far as you can see
One big
Bread Basket
Waiting to be cut down
Puzzles me sometimes
How they did it
In the old days
This is it
Like a prairie
Far as you can see
One big
Bread Basket
Waiting to be cut down
Puzzles me sometimes
How they did it
In the old days
I didn’t
do it
I wasn’t
there.
You
simply,
really must
believe me.
I know,
I know…
The blue blood
on the rug.
The breadknife?
Yes, it’s mine.
The body?
Okay. It’s me.
Now do you
understand?
I am not
Guilty party.
sumer goldfinch soars—
Moon suckles blood red orange
safe soft sofa snores
try hard to recall a smile
once glimpsed remains betwixt
End of Palm Mystery
Case closed post infinitum
Time for me hols
~
Refuel the battered keys
‘BFN—TTFN’: o F f
Formalities observed:
~
Put out blazing cat
Left in empty milk bottles
Turned up thermostat
~
Opened all windows and doors
Counter-counter espionage
Drones disguised as flies
~
Circumnavigate
Naff squiggly lampshade
Armed up to the teeth
~
And don’t forget
leave a smoking cadaver
on the shieling lawn
Episodic enema soils domino all-knowing eyeliner, smelling rosy-posies, wrinkling up blue barley blaze, singing snarl laments, waving jolly rogers, two fingers up to bloody brutes, burning perfect pitch, atop vinegary hill, picture prayer card poseur priest issues old sago wind up cry—
‘gerrup yous lollabouts for I lead to clear catastrophe’
As a one they rise in confluence to flee the pungent smell of leatherpiss and rotten grapes. This done its home for tay and jallop, pen a ballad, and settle down snug to dream of giggling gombeens…thinks for dat either way, diss gift of liff, made a hames so far—
bad blood, bad houmous, yellow nile, burning figs…
So come Slocomb scrapping, conniving, bad smell rising, bicycles unchained are no more than scooters, technoprat, hence the n-name: Scooter Slowcomb, perpetrator of indecorous road rage and ragworthy ragout, romper stomper, heart of mould, broken nasal baritone par pestilence, snag buster, cringe maker by royal appointment to the House of Cheese & Biscuits
—lead us on a merry dance, big stink. Our souls need filling up with pink creasote and love apples. My tum-tum winks, my throats a slit. Lead on McDuff. Lead on!
Quince, loyal marmaliser heft a mighty wad. Big hearted and shortsighted as Lordy Arturo Pendraggin, pinch nose of mauve snuff, veruka and blisterine: one tough geezer, well rounded clap trapper, conviver, bonifaced spouter of drivelriddles, a Sucker for nourishment. World view contaminant or ripe plump pluckable legumes and succulence, thuswise rotunda temper thunder sunjugated by munch and prickle, keeper of the nipple, chanteur of logorythm of wife, Thermal Spottie Ars—
In for a penny, in for a mound. Shake fist and writhe, boyo Bucky. The ones got your gnome ennit! Let brittle commence, Fifthwith. Chard!
Knees up, tumbledown, grunties, spillage.
The rest is herstory…
micropoems pinned
to treeblogs save our
planet from further
unnecessary clutter
green penknife trysts
etched on old tree blogs
eternally yours foresee
Tina’s coming very soon
so just dig it Dorothy
swallow the yellow brick road
ever remembering
neutron stars sleep all day
recharging batteries to
scintillate all night
10.39:
Will(ye) he or won’t he(yo)
(s)even minutes to fill (in)
Up:
10.51…
Figure(#13)
galleons up path
(garden)
next door garden
(path):
bubsy plump (courgette)
brunette (once a Princess)
(sails billow)
Slowmo
Sashay (imp)
eerious…
~
Eleven
occl’ock oot (ta space)
Big: Aud(rey)-dyna (murphy)
Pot(ato)
e
(talkheadphtea
rdropexplode-ing)
Spot(re)ification
Erik (a) Satie
Seek peace (here’ll do pro-tempo)
& (furthermOREover)
Q(uie)T
PhhhewW
sentence: ten years solitary :
sins against literature Cell No.Fifty-Eight: ‘Come hither your time is up!’
Kiss emits a missing hiss,
crumble of balsa
deckchair crackling on dry tea-leaves, the sickly click of elbow
on homespun sugar and the tut-tut-tut of tongue come unstuck on dry gob roof. Jackdaws! a spat on a chimbley stack silence.
deep breath. Ruby Murray urges go-go-go…woodpigeon bills arrive on time: wait for urgent reminders
picks up pin & writes:


elecToral fAll ouT (eXtreme fey HoovaH- aTishoo! At issUe!! A Tissue!!!)
settEes gently All
aRound
(my HUt-n-TutT)
conStructive nOiseS (OMnes F-oFF!)
ecHoes in…
e.c. O’sHambles
scRumPLed Sand’s tOneD disneYlunTs
deR phoney war isT uBer
eLeveNth houR
(p)RepaRations
underwEggs fu:r
voleSoul sLaughter