Vanguard foot slides down
exhaling hulk slips groaning
sighs under eiderdown
waves goodnight cruel world
helpless cries for help
hyena laugh & banshee howl
echo through stark night
lorry and quarry breaking
observant silence
drag chains crochet light
Georgie Gargoyle sneers
leers drools pours derision
raining scorn upon
the weak, sick, old, cold,
&
all the living and the dead
cruel salacious scabious
snooty pogrommer
‘we are where we at’
peculiar thing to say
do not understand…
moving on, going
forward, rushing like
gas spiral around black hole
Apply
to affected area
rub well in
when symptoms persist
insult your practitioner
landscapes & portraits
awesome collections adorn
miniature still lives
…glowered; walked; ate; slept;
read; wrote; watched; listened;
recalled; forgot; spoke; sniffed; wiped;
worried; hurt; feared; lamented;
bemoaned; derided; conceived; dismissed; praised;
commented; breathed; blinked; obfuscated; requested;
thanked; laughed; smirked; joked; combed; wept;
opened; shut; noted; grimaced; puffed;
huffed; guffed; splashed; winced;
scoffed; looked; realised;
reasoned; questioned;
stretched…
busy day.
Things chug-chug-chugging
along again once
train lines cleared
of oppressive leaves
other obstacles malinger:
sheer mediocrity
complacent shyness
myriad telegraph poles
(c) Milton’s Cottage; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation
Blind Tiresias
Rhythmically swaying
Iambic rapper
Muttering incantations
–
Committing morning verse
To pellucid memory
Ear cocked for milkmaids
–
Waiting enthroned in turmoil
illuminated by defeat
cherished hard won republic
brief lost earthly paradise
postponed for another eternity
another enlightenment
another bright spark
Watched
The Night Manager,
Bond movie
BBC budget,
chief female spook
played by Poet Laureate –
it’s a new dawn on a grey day.
Calmed down after yesterday’s
sugary fry-up hiatus.
Big bomb in Istanbul
Merkel on the slide.
Grinding poverty
in the national interest
the right thing to do
sarin on the streets
of Birmingham quells
public sentimentalists
welcome to the working week…
Do you dare go out?
Snoopers everywhere
watching every step you take
*
digit counters fall like lies
invisible drones
gauge your
intentions:
good bad or indifferent
depending on their
point of view
*
nano state anthropocene
goes to work on itself
paranoia made
real big
brother
made redundant
spending early retirement
cormorant counting
after dark midnight
*
grand inquisitor
smart phones
just stole
the joy of Going
*
ignorance is folly
when it’s wise to wise up…
Said
The slimy
Saboteur
Grimbeau 