Glimpse sobriety
Contemplating lunch for brunch.
Boiled beef and parrots.
Overly ambitious
infatuation junkie
craving approval
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Water drops on thin bare twigs,
silver globules adorn taupe.
Keep on until the
urge to coalesce passes
lazy morning lines
spaghetti conjuntions
After Sylvester evensong, Loyola piped up:
‘Out with the Pianola!’
And
(As Nasturtiums have for donkey’s years)
We were ready to kick out the jambs
The Easter Lambs & heaven could wait a quarter
Priscilla the Pig, our Abbot, dressed as Emile Zola
Got the ball rolling with the much lauded Tombola.
A fine thing, like some tradition,
The Tombola of the Tropaeolum:
We put our Bull into a hat
Pull out the winner
And a new year
Doctrine is chosen
A fresh true rumour
To add to the credo
This is followed by
A game of sardines
An eternal favourite
Ophelia melts crushed ice
just as passions rise
reach levels acceptable for mid-July
well before calendars ruled the earth—
pregnant burden rowdy satyr
—pitta patter of cloven hoof bubbling in the cauldron pot—
rapture fakes tradition
like salmon mimic
rudeboys chewing anthracite
Winsome day stares back in pearl,
lysine satyrs rake hay
before smoothies crushed yellow fibrous thing smacks
up velvet ice age, commit starfruit
guilt on hyacinth, hubris
—deliver us from antiseptic chores, come five it should be done
and dusted save the mighty
fallen rune stones these
that sully my fresh chemise?
The permanence of it!
outrage conceals mendacious logics.
Watch dust settle fast like loopy gifs.
I picked up pretending
I was stoical like tapioca blinds
— how strange thoughts of red meat, fish and fratricide are when putting out the compost
Rinsing dishes salves scene four,
just bear in mind damp
tea towels conspire like mathematicians
in pleasingly random numbers, that’s when
the claxon insists
on sacrificial offerings
— three day old goat’s milk sorbet and bluebell sponge
Not really much to add
As to whats been said, said Dr Watt
sniffing digits for giveaways
·Best go play it doggo a few days old chap say forever bury deep·
More like advice to self methinks
sobbing prone alone
violate throbbing ringpiece
shorts round ankles
let it end
Multiple personality comeback tour recommences one week late after pancake jamboree goes crazy apeshit
Oily slaves drip blood east of Eden according to specious mouth organs of broken bodies politic
Majestic sunset over cowshed foments upheaval in Lower Cwm Tuc flock— Dai Wool puts best foot skyward
Life under ocean wave beats digging frozen beet hands down heads up mindful boogie woogie
Company B flugelhorn adept meets sticky end bugling up to neck in galoshes of crass mass molasses
In praise of limestone we gather together today in giant grikes made autonomous by peaky penswipes
Dippers dip in close up
brisk wary purposeful splash
slowmo sub-aqua sunbirds
Succinctly snatch eggs under
primeval lamprey’s maul
catch sun star spangled eucalptus sways
violent white amid fresh tea plantations
Raj refuseniks broody dye off mingle
Angelus curfew lights up pipes
take syncopated swing time sips
gin slings stroll punk fanned pergola—
moving parts swarm shanty town below
top cat glances overlook disdainful
deep exhale at Main street devils
wretched beats in Green street hovels
half-baked puerile malcontents
Bar Blue Parrot noises swell
Grave Achilles sat
blissfully darning bed socks for victims of his mood swings—
a timely encounter downunder thus helped them
forge great shapes of things
shrewd Ulysses’ war eyes looked perplexed·
on seeing this Achilles carped the diem & told this glum mucker that life beats death hands
down no worries huh
Tummy warming stuff
on this wet day in Maida Vale inside a humming bird
whalebone bisque before aboriginal public—
noble stuff indeedy poohs·
however mud sticks regardless take the point
on board & suck on it extract epic sangine juices lick lips breathe a deep sigh without
ever knowing it
What came next was pain
inexplicable—how many times can you leave home
without your keys till they finally write you off?
Too many cheeseburgers
(one a day for eleven years) takes its toll
of a demi-god let alone the rest even though they have a voice best ignore it all now
thanks for dropping by
under came trouble
mumbling vexed profanities
elephantine hump
straightened crinkled vanity
missing summer sanity
all the flowers well kaputt
trampled under thunder foot
buried under winter
will this mad wind dissipate
make up its changeling mind?
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
Start at end of yarn
Unpluck twiddle cut
Up in seven pieces
Deconstruct the sponge
Reassemble conundrum·
Crass instruction pamphlet
Holes as big as parts
Impossible after breakfast
Full on human traffic jam
Cake eaters rattled crumble
Hunched up over precarious lattes
down inside voodoo child grumbles
—austerity charity caught fondling figures
violent phones rest in peace on unstable cradles
beckoning a reckoning—
faith & hope look on
kicked deep into the long grass
Grimbeau 