Sudden catharsis
Rooted to the spot
Catatonic subverters
Absent sense of direction
Can’t find my way out
Trial an error live and learn
Back to the drawing board
Fresh pens & pencils
Kitchen utensils
The galley slave goes to it
Cooking up a storm
When gargantuan
Exquisite imaginations
Once went to work on
A polythene egg
In a bubble car
There was a big bang
The rest is pre-history
Radio Rotten Plays
Anarchy in the UK
Listen with Mother
To the World at One declare
The war is over
For the Unknown Soldier
So DNA traces reveal
Burnt offerings for the dog.
Still scrapless after all those ears.
Scavenged some roasted remnants.
There’s beans & fish ready to go.
Where’s the promised salad?
East of Neasden.
Abnormal service is exhumed.
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Ate salmon, herbs, spuds, and runners.
Kitchen utilities roar as afternoon arrives:
‘Good Afternoon!’, it says
Still deep in morning,
I yawned a knowing smile,
returned a nod of greeting,
while slyly raising a hand
to hide the unswallowed fish head
I was sucking on.
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Afternoon stayed for a coffee and left
to finish the rounds
in time for evensong.
Take the scenic route
off the beaten track
the path less trodden
which way wherever
hang a left at the gibbet
& carry on rolling up
the road into one
neat spiral cylinder
ready for oncoming
vagabonds & traffickers
gormless stranded waysiders
gawping as I ride on by
Swept threadbare flimsy
Flakey faded Nepalese
Hand woven carpet
Once bold vibrant crimson
Scuffed trampled bare by
Indwellers interlopers
Casual and meaningful
Professional rucks
Transgressional muck
Careless and caring acquaintances
Dogs living and dead
Occasional wayward chooks
Cops, yobs, swabs, blobs, mobs
Tawdry transcendent
Embedded ephemera
windblown through the door
Seems so-so silly
Sometimes saying something bout
Each and every day
Each little scratching of time
But that’s all there is
In these nowadays
Squealing on the ceiling
Sporting with forked lightning
Blundering with thunder
…today we got some moonshine
see through simnel rain
now we got some moonshine
smothered soused warm indolence
busted October flushes
sigh out cards face up
on the maple table
pot goes to Rainbow
Sleeve notes illumine
Verbal diarrhea folk
Anti-static wipes
Sought and found beneath
A pair of purple cotton loons
Harbouring homeless titmice
Making swell for winter
Watch mercury beads
Scampering uncatchable
Infuriating frantic romp
Quicksilver incidental
Flashes resembling moments
Grimbeau 