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 …
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Holly Woodstar
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 – …
Politicalculations
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.
On My Couch
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, …
Passenger Pigeon
I passed by herelooking for shelter.Flocks of medisappeared for all to see. I must be on my way.Will you misquote me and what I didn’t use to say?
By Royal Appointment
The Royal pardon said sorry for not forgiving me at all.Famous people in their prime with obituaries sold in purgatory’s mall.Meanwhile I meantime, as is habitual.Somewhere someone is really living and about to die in a dawn dual. Stopping to pull the rug from under my feetThe red-carpet envoy skips, making excuses to everyone I …
Music Hall Countryside
A piano and a Wurlitzer were playing from a field next door.A gramophone record and a wireless from a meadow across the hall.A violin and an accordion from a stream 3rd floorand a xylophone and a chiming glass from an upstairs market stall. Typewriters tapped away, and words got scattered across sawdust moorsas sheep wandered …
App-pocalypse
Everyone puts in their password.Servants to the server. Expecting to be accepted.But there’s a spanner in the worksas their letters and symbols get rejected. Nobody understands why.Nobody gets anywhere.Some go mad and start to cry.All spend hours and hours in despair. Question upon question to do.Get one wrong and you start anew.Walls of technology crashing …
It all comes out in the end
You can bury it undergroundsink it underwatersend it out to space But When it sproutsor floats to the surfaceor comes down to earth It’s as plain as the nose on your face. You can burn it,set it on fire.Have it eaten by the sows,have it gone away forever. But When the ashes and the bonesget …
Fine Line
Treading the tight-rope with gusty guileAs far away as a horizontal milekeep everything balanced until it teeterslike snapping a ruler at 32 centimetres.
A Pretty Kettle of Poetry 