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285 · May 2017
idiota (ad absurdo)
be they praise or profanity
all words are inanity
on the lips of fools
acting all surprised
like harvey weinstein opened eyes
hyper critical belies
this most hypocritical of people and places
casting couch denials
humblebragged ****** defilement
worked the feminista angle
best audition of the day
two thumbs up

How many hollywood men are sat at home knowing they can never talk about it?
285 · Jun 2017
fake news
i live in me head
coz i know all the neighbours
i havent seen the outside world for ages
sat on me **** writing pages and pages
of justifications that just sound outrageous
the real reason why is coz im ******* dangerous
cant wait to take task to our lords and ******* saviours
all the cheeky ******* trying to influence our behaviours
and the blind ignorant masses satisfied with their delusions of grandeur
**** yaz
285 · Apr 2017
sprung
the days are longer
the sun shines brighter
warming my heart
we could be in the arctic
in months of darkness
its spring wherever you are
kt
283 · Apr 2016
get the heaton on
I could tell from the faces
I passed on the streets
with their furtive sideways glances
up from the ground at their feet
that I was as different
as they were to me
an old scouser
in new manchester
is a very different beast
aiyohhhhhhhhh yaaaarriiiiiEEEE?
283 · May 2018
trap (pony up)
someone sells you a demand
so you supply it
they put the cart before the horse
you still buy it
theres this thing called critical thinking
you should try it
if theyre trying hard to make the sale
walk away
deny it
nothing you need needs to be sold to you
283 · May 2018
tramp (nobility)
dont confuse class with circumstance
coincidence can happen to the richest man
for many a king has faced catastrophe
lost their heads holding a hand out in defeat
better men than them need to eat
"homeless" is such a benignly malignant word isnt it? doesnt really convey the sleeping in doorways, asking people for pennies to ignore your pride vibe of the thing.
they were tramps when i was a kid, and we respected them. theyd come back broken from wars. they were at least owed their place in the ennog unmolested.
then capitalism monetised them, made them a demographic and demonised them for their lack of spending power.
Im a ***** with a house. an english land owner of all things. that most noble of men apparently.
this grey feeling
so monochromatically appealing
akin to staring at the ceiling
unaware of the storm that is passing overhead
283 · Apr 2016
and so it begins (again)
"where's everyone gone"
the new life asked
"they've gone back to where they came from
back to dust"
said time
"but who will show me the way"
asked youth
"life will"
spoke age
who'd seen it all before
and had the patience of aeons
"but I need to know now"
demanded naivety
"yes, you do"
said wisdom, with a smile.
282 · Nov 2017
float (jettison)
yes i love you
but there is a but to that
there can be no future
where there has been no past
all that is before us
is but a part of what has passed
the bulk of what we could have become
was but ballast
no sane man lies down before the lion
accepts his fate and is devoured
instinct forges a heart of iron
there is no such thing as a natural coward
281 · Jun 2019
innocent of nothing
if insight is inciteful
should i look away?
cant unsee the lies
with an eyeful
see what Im saying?
say what i see
cant deny i say it seethingly
if thats a crime
then im a criminal
not guiltily
281 · Feb 2014
lost
would today be today
if tomorrow never came
can things always stay the same
if nothing ever changes
got lost on the way
to where im going
from where i came
from the cradle to the grave
ive been walking in circles
i fear we are all born gods
for we have fallen far
our curse
our being here on earth
is a trial no mere mortal
can ever master
oh how mistress time
mocks our desires
as we try the futile
pitiful
to outlast her
280 · Apr 2016
all bets are off
i met a girl.
she makes me feel.
alive again.
it might be real.
she smiles at me.
and what i see.
is blinding me.
i cant believe.
its happening.
shes more.
than i could ever be.
or want.
shes everything i need.
i cant believe.
its happening.
i met a girl.
she makes me feel.
with every new favourite everything I ever knew
now nothing more than a fast fading memory
I wonder if the wonder I felt in their company
was as real for them as it always will be for me
280 · Apr 2016
do you hear what i see?
youll listen to what looks good
or if it repeats a word
ad infinitum like a dump truck
going in reverse
i dont want to hear about
anything youve heard
its like sitting round
admiring the shine
on a gleaming polished ****
278 · Jun 2017
earthbound and down
pattern matcher extraordinaire
looked up to the clouds
saw faces there
looked beyond the sky
into that infinite expanse
the infinite looked back at him
purely by chance
there is more spirit in man than the ether
278 · Jan 2017
codex universalis
let me tell you a secret
there are no secrets
only things you cannot know
im burning all my bridges so theres no way back
my only defence for them is on the attack
in the end theyll understand that there was method in the madness
anger is the antidote to sadness
infinite sadness becomes ultimate wisdom
another loud american
best greatest orator
will replace him
as head of state
alma mater
trump university
nothing will change
except the tax breaks
and loose change rates
at either end of the sliding slippery scale
275 · Aug 2016
goin supernova
the world stopped growing when i stopped measuring
all of a sudden everything was within my reach
while outside my capacity
collapsing as i am under the weight of my own gravity
275 · May 2017
burn out (light em up)
how do you keep sleeping
how do you stay sane
when your dream and your nightmare
are one and the same
where there be fair maidens
there be dragons to slay
but as they die
youll watch your fire
slowly fading away
the asteroids only ever hit
when you have time
to look up and see them
otherwise you just exist
and then you dont
so in the dust of the aftermath
the mantra is
just keep breathing
no matter how counter intuitive
concentrate on it
it will clear your throat
275 · Mar 2019
1UP (defrag)
i spend my days
rearranging
data on the computer
my machine
is almost psychically
connected to its user
everything is laid out logically
in this universe of illusion
to take a step away
into the chaos reign
of the real world
is an intrusion
soon be back again
sustenance attained
level up
and on with the mission
in the only game
ill willingly play
waiting to waste away
in front of the television
ive put my head through the loop
felt the rough rope
prickle and pinch
ive tightened the knot
just so
snug behind my ear
but not too snug
ive let it take my weight
bent my knees before eternity
ive seen the tunnel
seen the light in the dark
calling
felt its pull
repulse me
ill come to you death
you smug *******
you wont take me
alive
274 · Mar 2017
on the plus side
no ambition is no negative thing
I dont want to be what Ive been told I want to be
aiming for an ending seems so silly to me
when I look around and see a world so full of beginnings
we are clumps of chaos
born to waste away
back into what made us
at the end of our stay
our brief coalescence
sentience we say
would be no less meaningless
without the words to describe it that way
we think we are so special
we are but motes of dust suspended on shafts of sunlight
until the dark
274 · Apr 2016
solar flare
why
should my time in the sun
be cast in the shadow
of those
that would set themselves
above me?
when icarus falls
will i be expected
to reach out a samaritans hand
to help him up
from laying in the dust
of his own char
or will i pluck a burnt feather
for my new jaunty hat?
273 · Apr 2016
so ner (its my ball)
if the cost of a grown mans sanity
is the loss of the big kid inside me
then i dont want to play
273 · Apr 2016
not in my time
imagine a world were we admit our fallibility
where ego is baseless
and we base our happiness
on happiness
wouldnt that be something
wouldnt it be something at least
273 · Jun 2016
Danger EUXB
theyve got their eyes
and then theyve got their vision
as mutually exclusive
as the hearts and minds
that will make the decision
why are we paying self professed professionals if the biggest choices are left to amateurs
272 · Nov 2014
(s)word
dont take a breath
keep speaking
until there are no words left
beseeching
so called leaders of men
to remember the hearts in their chests
not to be ******* the legs
that provide progress
through this mud called existence
to bear in mind
that the hands that create
are borne on arms
that when raised
can easily decapitate
a head of state
272 · Dec 2014
like a hole in the head
enemies
we need more enemies
a friend in deed
is a friend you cant depend on
to fuel an economy
271 · Apr 2016
bueller?
when the inevitable comes
it is rarely as bad as the expectation
what does this tell us of death
think too much
do too little
reverse course
fickle piggy in the middle
youll make a tasty morsel
on the masters platter
if you carry on snuffling
into matters that dont matter
270 · Jan 2015
hate (resurrection)
if looks could ****
I would cut you down
dissect you
correct you
peel you and paint you
the colour of the clown
you are
so I could gaze
upon you again
and again
and laugh
a vision of youth
as blind as a bat
shouting into the darkness before it
only heeding the echoes bouncing back
self fulfilling prophecy
doesnt know that it doesnt know that
continues to be what it believes that its seeing
ignorance becomes fact
268 · May 2018
the burning question
...so i asked myself
"what do you know of love?"
then sat waiting
for the fire to subside
its never clever to dwell on forevers that never came. those where you feel the pain before you even remember her whole name. there may be smiles one day but for now nothings changed. every accidental recollection adds more fuel to the flames.
267 · Apr 2016
buyers remorse
ive realised that what is real has very little to do with our reality
that the stories weve been sold eclipsed it long ago
that weve paid in gold
to have streets paved in stone
to fall to when the gilt is gone
and the rock
and the hard place
are seen to be one
**** happens
but one day youll look up
unless youve buried your head in the sand for so long
sediment has made it your grave
then **** happens
what use a future now
265 · Dec 2018
humblebrag (impetus)
if there is glamour
in being anti it
you enamour it
so you make it so
your cause needs to be effective
so you affect it
keep the kudos coming
take your percentage
make the next gig
bigger than the one before
nothing less than
armageddon wins it
sell another ticket
on with the show
you perpetuate what you crave
id been rolling ******
gathering moss
for as long as i remember
until the day i came across you
so i stopped
changed my course on the spot
set myself on a path
that now im on
i cant step off
until i get to where im going
whether i like it or not
ive got to keep on rolling
from the bottom to the top
sisyphus would be proud
i tried to sleep through the melancholy calls of the gulls
their desolation at the desolation plain to hear in their plaintive cries
so distinct from their usual raucous chatter
back and forth and back as they gorged secure
no more
i didnt know birds could cry
until i felt their tears fall
from my eyes
the feeding ground is gone
263 · Jun 2015
cherry (many moons)
the years look good on you
dont count the rings
your leaves are green
your flowers bloom
from inside birds sing
seductively
dont be sour sweet thing
take your time
youre blossoming
263 · Apr 2016
ex mortis
the words we said
are dead and gone
their pain remaining
stubbornly
the sting this tale
delivers often
keeps it fresh in memory
emotion decomposed and rotten
left alone to atrophy
now i feel
its time to move on
unforgettable
has forgotten me
i wonder what nastiness happened today
while royal nonentities beguiled the gullible
lost under the dress the smiles the parade
will be the things the government couldnt make possible
any other way
beyond the news is where the news is

edit: turns out it was just Theresa May being a lying hypocritical scumbag whod shank a bagpiper to hear which screams louder as they died.
260 · Jan 2017
cairnt be arsed (cave in)
crawl to the gallows
or go swimming with the sharks in the shallows
dig deep for the hard place
hollow out the marrow
while the rocks keep piling up
building my barrow
259 · Apr 2016
quickfire
you hide your fire inside
where its burning you alive
the pain of keeping it aflame
is shining in your eyes
in protecting it from the rain
youve stopped seeing the sky
look up while some spark remains
before the heat inside you dies
259 · Jun 2016
everybody sees
nobody looks to see
another mans problems
dont bother me
is their thinking
until another man
explodes outside their building
kills their children
flies a plane into their blinkered world
in no uncertain terms
problems are getting worse
all of a sudden solving problems
has a moral worth
drop some bombs on them
cant go wrong
though its never worked
fighting fire with fire
just gets your fingers burnt
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