John Edward Smallshaw

John Edward Smallshaw 3d

Serendipity doo dah
is what I heard
but serendipity
was not the word

they could have made the song
on a thirty three and a third
instead of a 78rpm.

John Edward Smallshaw 3d

#random

She's shelling peas
off the Outer Hebrides
and he's being a lazy sod
won't even move a
pea pod,

but thinking takes up all his time
and thinking work might be a crime
he remains an innocent.

John Edward Smallshaw 4d

Oh yeah

...
and I know
that dealing with it
is only the half of it
It's the reconstruction
that counts.

I counted the knives
the lives that I wasted
the loves that I tasted
and
but you know that

so
why
am I here
will I die
do I fear
no
because
I'm still dealing
with it.

John Edward Smallshaw 4d

In a nutshell, part two.

In the heat of the moment
that lasted a lifetime
I was hers
and
She was mine

but a lifetime isn't long enough
and yet I found
that I was strong enough
to carry the weight of our.
world
on my shoulders

John Edward Smallshaw 4d

Popcorn

The mind grips tight
holds on to the what might
but the what might was last night
and now it is the morning.

woke up yawning
saw no chasm
this will be a lucky day.

showered and shaved
saved
breakfast 'til last
then
realised I have to work,

still feeling lucky
but *** me
no rest for the wicked.

John Edward Smallshaw 6d

You said what?

Trying to take it all in
hashtag grin or gin

for the beginners
sit there and pray for us
because
there is nothing else to do

we're through
down the drains
in handcrafted chains
not made in Britain
but
more likely India,

imported coal
and
that's just another hole
to bury us in,

hashtag grin or gin.

John Edward Smallshaw 6d

They can kiss my Kalashnikov.

Reversals
and betrayals.

who did you vote in
you know who
so
what's with the complaining?
you got who you voted in.

I'm taking a green pill
hoping that
it'll take me out of schittsville.

Down here in the South
It's only mad dogs that foam at
the mouth which bite me,

but in dear old Blighty
that's what we expect.