Category Archives: Uncategorized

Homing pigeons get sent out.Dogs get scent about.How is it back there?I’m thinking of deserting as a dare. I’ve been given my marching ordersAnd I’m marching tomorrow.Must say there’s too much mud to see any borders.Have I lent myself to a medal I’ll ever even borrow? That’s it from me, darling.Your letters keep me going.When […]

I wake with a joltBolt upright in bed;Both bell-shaped ears clangingEither side of my metal alarm clock head. Caricatured in a comic-book worldOf sketched in pillow and sheet,I think out loud, as a speech bubble balloons;“Bloody ’ell! A working week!” That ruddy routine and rigmarole;Striped pyjamas stripped off, shave n shower,Clothes, coffee and cornflakes,Breakfast T.V. […]

Some people don’t seem to changeSome people seem to, or at least rearrange.Some people you see routine.Some people you see you’ve never seen. Funny things these things.Running round in rings.More or less looking for more.Burying what they’ve been digging for. Some people are the same.Some people aren’t.Some people give it a name.Some people can’t. When […]

When the children you never borehave outgrown you with invisible tears they would have bawled.When the records you boughtgot scratched, becoming collectors’ items collectors never sought. When girlfriends that became exesrolled down the River Exe.When, over the River Thames in 1986,you missed out on playing pooh sticks. When gold and silver birds dinedon the steps […]

Trying to write somethingI might read or I might singthe audience are blurry people in dreamsthat I never remember unless they drop onto the floor from beams. Record me, rather than make me repeat what I say.Spinning jenny jumpers with cotton lines are starting to fray.However far there is to goI’m going to tread on […]

Looking for a place with no past devils.A clean slate to start anew.Where the sea washes up and away pebblesAnd where what you might have done you still might do. Houselights glimmering on wintry waters.Lighthouse lights keeping you from autumn wrecks.Summer swim suits on sons and daughtersAnd whistle-welcomes on springtime decks. Everything’s going for a […]

Mr irritating turns up at the worse possible time.Speaks when it’s meant to be a mime.Says the wrong thing or, if not, in the wrong way.Keeps everyone effortlessly at bay. Does things people would generally like to avoid.Seems quite happy when he should be annoyed.Has a bonnet but no bee.Mr irritating tries to sit on […]

Made good, and not just a pretty face.She started off with a different name in a different place.She played her roles on screenbut it was her private life that thrilled her public behind a scene.Yes, she drank, yes she stank – of money.Yes, she married and divorced- several times.And yes, was larger than life – […]

We are us.You are them.You dress.We wear the hem. We don’t.You do.We are the many.You are the few. 3 times table.Sums at school.Stark bollock nakedor wrapped up in cotton wool. Work it out for yourselfand when you dosee if it adds upand if the equation includes you too.

I lie on the sofaTelling me about myself.Little old me, belittling it all.Dead lonely, a coffin elf. The first thing that enters my headAs word associations process the data fed;What comes to mind with “the ties that bind”?Do-it-yourself, and the fear of being left behind. Do I play the victim? Would I say I wallow?Well, […]