Sunday, 27 December 2009

At last

My market
Rated
No advantage
Existence

Harsh and
We made
It in the
Big Smoke

Don’t like that?

Is there an issue
With this one?

Journalism

‘Because, you’re the sort
Of person
Who should …’

And I say
Fuck ‘em

That’s how I got here
With blurred eyes
Naked

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

The Artist

Screaming either:
I'm different
or
I'm normal

--

Avoid embarrassment
Sometimes.

It is better to google
Than to blog

Bury your antlers
Deep.

The land is ours

Directorate/
Secretariat

Beige ironies
Unfold before
The Stage:

Residents
Squaters
Activists
Reporters

This is our land
Our history
Our culture

Play un bel di
To the nocturnal Fight

This is closing
Time

Bas-relief

Shake history
Limestone
From the marky
Gravehead

This is the legacy
Of the 19th home
Built environment.
Century - Golden
And the steed of
Mechanical progress
Twixt skin:

It looks like a cruise liner
An alpine lodge;
Nothing I have ever seen
Here

Roman, barbarian
Huguenot, trader.

I am eyes

Warmth

Over the barrel vaulted
Eaves, sink deep
In the vested
Come street-lined
Fields
Endeavour

She whispered back at
Me from the
Crenelated tier
Of the causeway

Gasometer
Thames Reach
Cadogan pier.

Something's right

Something's right
We're in!
At the centre
Of ourselves:
Merchandising (even)
Apart of upkeep
Or request.
It just makes sense.

--

I (fabric) feel wrong
So stuck outside
Something to learn?
Literature to teach me?
Always looking for attention
Approval, and scared
Of approbation.

Happen

The serrated spies
Aren't naked
Like my thoughts

Nice rainbow;
But
Does it have planning permission?

Some people dressed their stalls
And others
Just left their clothes
And made a pile
Lucky dip (£1 a go)

Everything must

Saturday, 5 December 2009

August in London

The Lord is passing
Freedom
I look up to see his wings
Lord Balfour
Plan me a river that sings

The children of BBC
Lament: Great Culture
Is left to Edinburgh

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Everyman's arabian nights

Furtherance
Lost out of
Words in Time

Eighteenth
Acrid
Century
In Latin / Greek

And a murder
The first opening
Of a crow

Baby don't hurt me
No more

Seen

I am:
Beam in the bunds
Golf Course
Lost in Roald Dahls
Bucolic Dream
Sink
Tonic
And the scrapings
From the rust

Tin cans
Alley
By the rail road
Tracks
This is 1970s
Attitude
Towards
tear drop
Peels and early
Pepsi coke cans

Deep breath
Everybody's free
But im loving
Inside out
Lick me in the cloud
And dream

STOP

Monday, 7 September 2009

The Media


The Media

Sounds freindly
Like Greywater

Not sick building syndrome


One day the
Staff
At the Black Cat
Will become
News writers

Monday, 17 August 2009

No more stones


No more stones
Life is magical
Saharan Rugby UK

Caught in culture
The wind and the river are one
Never to rise
The path
To human
Past
And satisfaction

When freedom reigned

Blister packed
Solutions like
Acetyl salicylic acid [Aspirin]
Thank You for letting me know

And such

Monday, 10 August 2009

Death

can we make a website?
can we?
can we make a website?
can we

But who can bear to be forgotten...

Tuesday, 4 August 2009

Recycle

Recycle the charts of
Power for better days:
Envious met
Competitive.

This is how I want to write
Different from other people
With clothes,
Sticking in the shower.

She took a gasp from
The refill -
It wasn't her child.

In the Spartacus lobby
For ascending minerals
I felt the soil
Come purposeful.

I live in the common
Transaction
Called barter.

Made difficult by the need
To own your name.

Don't

Don't be definitely
Now.
Departed in the parting
Cornice,
Pathway Artifice.

Lively?
Take your veiled
And curious ambitions
From my mobile hearth
I loved you once
Smiler

I want this to be
A coincidence
Joining
Present experiences
To past.

You may need me to
Express
Myself.

It is not pleasant.
Love.

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

BBC


Creature!

'You've got to be in it
To win it?'

Or a life spent desperate lonely
Bashing a pencil hand
Against the monolith

And the nation
Beams at the teet

And the writers and intellects
Rest in the cleavage

Happy between
The bosum of tradition
And the void of art

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

A Nursing Home

Resting my eyes upon the lilies
And my tired mind
Projected forth
To the end of human suffering

Breathe deep with me reader
And feel the warmth
Of a life spent
Whilstling after
Art

And the pretty girls
Between me and
Absolution

Hold up my crown
Merlin Fulcher
And the tracks spelt out
Between me
And destiny.

Monday, 6 April 2009

Exit

Tired of iron
And the industry
Extremities
He fell faster
Past the throbbing
Friday lights
His dust caked
Boots, made a star
Beside the wheel
Of ochre toil,
His resting place

Sunday, 15 March 2009

Our Flock Are Sheep

Dear wartime popular consensus.
I took a bough and stated: historiographical controversies
Dear pillars and stones;
Dear childhood in a library,
Childlike for a school.

Please excuse my absence and accept my kind
thoughts at this time of sadness for our family.

Four portions in the oven. That is family.
Like the uniform duck: we will all be fathers,
Or watch surreptitiously our friends on the grass.
There are coffees coming, or, 'Please help
Yourself to a soft drink'. Go on.

Dear Lion & Unicorn and mustard sandwich.
Here's making hands in the air (making hands in, the, air).
This summer will go on and on.
It will go on and on and last weekend, it was to go on.
Ice may be harder to come by?
Why just lie and with your hands back let the
Wind blow over you.

Dear Sir, I watched you in the woods gathering stones.
I, watched thoughts, reinvent themselves in bones.
I found my children, eating ankles.
My ladies and gentlemen, I welcome you to my home.

On marble floors our flock are sheep.
Indian cottage, where shall we sleep?
A great wind blew across the world.
Come hither, help me with the map.
All of this is good and bad in equal portions.

Your Mouth

Fireburst over the horizon
An open window full of dust
Youth on computer: aged.

Horizon dust and fresh cut grass
Dusk and mother time
Upper time.

My brother, my freind.
The woman who lived below the stairs
Two of them:
Drill pigs.

Mother in the air
Fences for the rich
Father in the air
Fences for the rich

I, never trusted:
Opinions, statements,
Thoughts: your mind
Your mouth.

Thank you for listening
If not

Wednesday, 4 March 2009

Steps

I used to be nostalgic.
One day I will be hopeful.
I will always be pessimistic.
Optimism will come.
There is nothing but despair.
I'm too scared of fear.
I can't bear this discomfort.
I'm troubled by this anxiety.
I'm concerned by this neurosis.
I think I will be thoughtful.
I'm not sure about apprehension.
But I have faith in my trust.

Monday, 23 February 2009

Arch-Up

Arch-up
Kid

These words weren't learnt
In a day.

Take solace in
Correct spelling,
Punctuation,
Grammar

Up-beat
And salient
Traditions
Of the past.

Be kind to
Associations
Or 'opportunities'
For life
Is a tireless Road.

Monday, 16 February 2009

Cycle Path

Cycle Path
When I'm on it
It's like we're
All wearing the same hat

I feel lost or betrayed
When
Road Markings
Lead me astray

Sometimes I take a diversion

As I grow older
You become more familiar
But I still feel
I made
The right choice

(Etc.)

Etc said to me
'Things won't always
Be this fun
You know'.

Thank you
Reiterated the
Point

A Hello
Said
Gratuitously

This all made me
Question
How I felt
Which in any case
Explains the
Joy

Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Daylight Saving

Summer rain
Caught the eye
Of a passing stranger
At 5:25 pm
Angles to the
Ascecnding municipal skies.

At a dark-made-light
Staircase:
Two minds elapsed
Looking backwards
On a shared past of
Phosphorescent
Twilight youth encounters.

Our man up-high
Took a deep breath
And welcomed in the
Warm becoming day.

An early evening light
Caught his mind
As it stretched
Across the months
To come.

Photographically images
Fell in rain
And blue flaking leaves
Of spring
Set expecting.

He shook the future
From his mind
And whispered back
'come again: homeward friend.'

Thursday, 8 January 2009

Stank

Again being unfortunate or unusual
In taking
A sound word
Into properties termed
Explicit

He was a pioneer
Of unusual feeling
Among dissatisfied
Urban rate payers.

Feel the fabric
Said Clive:
It is enough.

Sticky

Sticky buns, Sticky buns, Sticky buns!



She sat
On a shared chair
Called a sofa
Resting her legs
On my crotch

And teased
Ice cream
Out of the pot

Iron Out

Iron out the iniquities
Of sweet Thursday mornings
Spent unemployed
And sipping empty
Coffers
At the Starbuck’s Hilton
Level 2

Undressed I saw the creases

Took a moment to familiarise myself
With: charming lady
Of Oriental dispensations

In a back street in soho
Where someone I once stood next to
Wandered off

Chasing the words of my dream
In her heart.

Monday, 5 January 2009

Peterhof

A heart in pounding progress
On the morning of our dreams.
Seduced by sights and rising
Schemes
-- she carried on her wings.

Saturday, 3 January 2009

Agincourt

Sweet Agincourt
O where is love?
I look in heart
I look above

Sweet Agincourt
My love, my time
A bead in hope
I seek to find.

O Agincourt
O where art thou?
On prisms dreams?
The minds of sow?

Sweet Agincourt
Sweet Time, sweet now
For peace in Love
We wonder how…