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Who said, ' Jesus would not approve?'

I want more advertising
for mince pies in
brandy sauce.

more credit
less control.


We will have to pay the piper if we want to hear that tune
and howl at all injustices underneath the Winter moon.


Scrooge 2018

Dragged kicking and dreaming of kicking the dream into touch and
Christmas present is past.

The light fades quickly as the night floods in
and the sirens wail their regret.

I have yet to see what the night can do for me
or why the day has to slip away,

there's
not so many more as there was once before
I stopped counting long ago.

Shadows drop their veils
and the darkness grips me tight
the arms that clasp me might be
mine.

It's been a week
of hide and seek
but today
I found a seat.

Some faces look the same
and I could at a push
name a few
One
looks like you
but
probably isn't,

There's a girl
with
'Girl '
printed on her hat
she looks like a girl
no doubt about that.

The sleeping postman
sat next to me
could easily be
a
Policeman.

Opposite to me
a middle aged lady
her nails match the colour
of her hair
Red
and I suspect
from a bottle
but
she looks quite neat
sat there on the seat
so
why do I care.


White trainer man
might be the man
who runs for the train
each day
I see
they're worn down at
the heels, but
I know how that feels
so everything seems
okay.

This has been
a setting of the scene
and what I have seen
on the Central line,

the time is 06:01
time to move along
the platform
please.

Artistry or archery run through an artery as I too run through a dictionary,
some are born to be boring and others who just put their 'oar' in;
I'm out there trying to score in
the game that we all call a life,

they wired me to the positive terminal;
and primed me
to explode into the interval
seminal?

but not practical
just Meccano.

Chipper and chirpy
Thursday
four thirty,

coffee time.

When you can't quite give it a name
but you know it's the same old same
and you're used to playing the game
so you go right ahead.

and where is here?
far away or near?
you're never as certain
as you once were

When she sings like Al Bowlly
soulfully
slowly
I think I'm in the wrong song.


One thousand yards deep and
sleep still eludes me.

They're right on your doorstep
looking into your life
they're watching your children
taking note of your wife
and there is no way to stop them
from snooping and prying
if you move they will follow
and find a new way to get in
so
you're a tag or a label
on the system that tracks you
I wonder who these people are.