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Joe Sep 2017
Á tort et á travers

Appeler un chat, un chat
Attraper le cou

Terne
Le pigeon
J'etais le pigeon

Juppe á été le pigeon de Chirac chat
Faire le malin

Pupil
M'a posé un question

Lacune .Lit
La raquette
Le racket
Bat paddle

Je m'en bats les couilles
Joe Sep 2017
Breathing, imagining
All those other lungs
Those nitrogen and oxygen molecules
Have visited before they enter mine

Joseph Pujol
Star attraction
Moulin bouge
19th century French flatulist
Trumpet
La marseillaise
Bottom

Devil's bargain
Genuinely eerie
Ultra casual language
Hilltop finca in southern Spain
Predictably their love life
Soon turns sour
Joe Sep 2017
LondonParisNewYorkToronto
BristolManchesterBrightonOxford
Helsink­i Casablanca.

The salubrious docks in the east
Prevailing westerlies pushing clouds to the crowds
All blue collar no trousers
Hot air

The eastward drift
a spiralling pattern of deprivation
Emerging from a grubby core
Joe Sep 2017
I went for the wine
I stayed for the cheese
We just want you to be happy
We're so eager to please

Everyone's so affable
It's nigh on ****** laughable
So I do

So cool and well adjusted
Eating artichokes with mustard
I laugh hot wet laughs

Amongst the dry dry dry dry
Dry whites
Joe Sep 2017
Cafe cheveux echecs
bon dimanche bien les mecs
pas un jour pour les miserables
en plein soleil trop a l'aise

The afrojazz that plays at the
entrance of the synagogue
that's the mood

There is a complete
lack of colour
Behind an ancient
Pillar we scheme
Joe Sep 2017
He meekly approaches, saying
Hey, I hope this is cool
But I'm pretty sure we went
To the same school

I cut him short, said
What has that got to do with me?
That ship sailed long ago
Now we're all at sea

He laughs, saying
You're as spiky as back then
It's a kind of comfort to know you haven't changed
And to know we're still
not friends

I drop my basket and leave
Joe Sep 2017
Zoo
Two beaten baboons
Cling to each other
His dear wives

Kids flinch
Cross banana fingers
Hope for the best

Flamingos are shallow as ****

'How do lions go?'
'Rrrrah'
'See him in the corner
Shall we go to the shop
And buy one'

The last time I was
At the zoo
I contracted
   Ragworm

Regal tangs
In aquariums
Across the globe
Are sick to the back gills
Of being called Dory
By over excited children

S
Lucy really wants to eat a mountain chicken frog
Lucy would touch that croc's
Xylophone tail
No issues
Lucy doesn't reckon
I could pass
As a zoologist
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