…Kerrackle
&
POp
Kodak caught the moment
Look! Say Cheese! Ugly
Your embarrassing neck
You now too can see
Appear in future times
Like Dr Who or Theda Bara
All it takes is
A blink of an eye
Like a pinprick second
Then magically
Scientifically
All the world is yours…
Birthdays, funerals, candles
Immortalised forever wrong
Stuck in sticky dust envelopes
Marked: ‘Audrey, what a treasure!
May, nineteen-seventy two.’
That was it, was it?
St
(ill heRe)
aRE
YoU
Errmm…?
(Mercury orbits
Sun tWo times Two)
…duNNo
Sun st.(a)irs lim(b)ps shuff les(s)
gropes…
Ascends
(pauses: carrion squirms)
remn(ants) ovum wilderbeast
biZarre crumpppled stiFFF
~
Cast off duds litter wet room
(cotton casuals, cheap fleeces, opal vest, timid boxers…)
forlorn mOwer man
(Wild One: Borneo)
Gazes B(l)anklet (at the) SCene
ConTemplating noTHing muSh
(sex, death, taxidermy…the usual)
…
me(an)while
down
b e l O W
(cacoph – onia: brakes out)
LapiDateDcrow
croaks (winged-flesh wound)
Fi(R)st prO-Christian offaRing
fakes IT like a
Can-cAn
daisy (c)utters:
cUll?bOund over
laWnmower
monK
Hungry bard
Tub of lard
Ate the Shard
& Gherkin
~
PC Mod
Lazy sod
Missed him
Caught out shirkin’
Can of worms t(itLE)
ALL the best
Jokes
(are) were strew(n)
Across
The
Cutting room lino
Shall we now move
Onto
OK (logically)
Go
(with t h e)
Flo…W
This (!)
iS
iImp
rot
ant
She said:
How does it feel to
Beef
Ed
?
Breathe in octave,
in one voice,
the celebration of the fungus,
sharp light on water,
a trout called esther williams
has parasites on its whiskers,
they say: ‘shave this fish, shave this fish’
and slip under a fan dancing turbine
off for porridge & smokies.
Cast off April’s clout
Smelly old wives’ tale suffers
economy wash
trial by ordeal
~
Later in the week
(that is)
Herr Procrastinator honks
to high heaven
dog sicks upon carpet
&
couch potato olympian
(big gob minus trousers dude)
shouts commands
soused in
insouciance
dreaming up new alibis
M4
Traffickers
C
ollision:
C R EE p
Ech…o
V
Psyche
bank hol(yo!)
Corridorroad
works a
Head(ache)
At the jukebox
With a timid demeanour
Behind purple drapes
They, with needles and pins,
Listen to Sontag
‘Mildermorn!’:
hum hispanic slugs –
Cortez the Cabbage Killer
stalks the wheelie bin
close back door
wide shut
; but first let out the
spilt milk bottle;
cheese crust silver crown
prized off ickily
stickily by thumb
Now!
my little plague rat
Get up them stairs
& shower; elsewise
you’ll be wearing gunge
of rancid seaside gannet
in a hole with a
contrarywise
Owl
Grimbeau 