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Nov 2024 · 88
Inmates
Half of them are stark-staring
afraid of the dark but won't let the light in
and the other half are on the lam
dodging the man in the
Black Maria.
Black Maria, the cop's cop car.
Nov 2024 · 124
Off piste
When you're thinking of doing
but you're toing and froing
knowing that toing and froing
is a Victorian phrase and
digressing doesn't help.

So we say
it's on the to-do list
and it is until we scribble it out
because we know
to and fro
is what we do best.
Nov 2024 · 104
Eighty cubits
Is this what it feels like.

pruning the roses
cutting the grass
endless tea breaks
will these things pass?
Nov 2024 · 352
Untitled
But I love the idea
of She as a Goddess.
Nov 2024 · 87
Deep
They're telling me,
don't drink you'll sink
but
I think it helps to
keep me afloat.

Not too much to
be out of touch with what's going on
or maybe another one to help me
to sleep.


I will wake
if God is willing
whatever my will.
there is always that self-destruct mode.
Nov 2024 · 56
#Random 82
Really?
we spent it so freely
wasted it
really?

the reality is that it's time for time and as time runs out there is nowhere we can buy it,
and when we say that we're buying some time what does that mean?
it's just a pipe dream on a paper boat.

'there will be time' said Thomas, to finish off the conversation in some salon with friends and time to measure our responses until the final pulse.

But he says, why worry, take it easy, no need to hurry the words that will come anyway
on that other day when the clouds part we'll all start the journey again as we have done before.

the cat that has only nine lives picks at its claw as it watches the man who has so many more and spits on the box.
Nov 2024 · 82
Looking back
She was so thin
I told her that I'd seen more fat on a greasy chip and if she wasn't careful she'd slip through the cracks in the sidewalk,
we used to say things like that when we were young but try it these days and you'd get hung,
all change
Nov 2024 · 62
Whirlpools
I have found that within my mind
there's a canyon of horizons and each one shows to me a difference of opinions and every opinion has its own opinion opening up onto new horizons.

I couldn't wish for more than this.
Nov 2024 · 80
Memory 89
About this time which was that time then when I thought it was about time I made my move because I was in the groove, and then the needle stuck and *** me the record replayed the same melody over and over.

always
and the female cop in the car said pull over, I said no, it's a sweater, I bet her pulse quickened as I sped away,
and about this, I remained quiet until now

She still follows me how
is that possible?
Nov 2024 · 75
#Wtf 23
Don't have
don't want
don't need,

that is food for the
don't have's because
they don't want
and they don't need,

feed 'em a line and
they fall for it
every time,

hear no
see no
speak no
wreak no
havoc.
Nov 2024 · 66
Dog tired in Catford.
The night is very near to me
and it's getting creepy

someone or something keeps me
safe
and I never look a gift horse
or a God in the mouth.

Jehovah looks over and he's shaking his head
it's a good job I'm alive or else I'd be dead.

Oh Man,
it's a rhyme
take some time
you'll get over it.

Now past the point of what's the point
I don't think I'll be coming back
unless it's as a playing card
and then you can call me Jack.
Nov 2024 · 82
Imps and things
Friday comes around on the clock
it's ten past sometime soon
and though the moon shines bright
it looks to me like the middle
of last night.

Someone tried to  
mend the crack of dawn
but it's worn and frayed
I think
they've laid it to rest.

But
coffee's not the only thing
that makes my eyes pop
and gives me a zing
She
brings within her
the sunshine.
Nov 2024 · 96
High jinks
Shopping's not what it used to be
I never see buy one get one free
it's all about me, me and did you see
the Christmas Range?
it's like the High flamin' Chaparral
cowboys, everywhere you look.

yes, me, me underneath the polystyrene Christmas Tree,
take a selfie with the fairy on top
She says that I have to stop and that I'm only out here
to shop.

What the..? Oh,
I get it
you mean the fairy on top bit?
I tell her that 'it's just fun, ducks'
She
gives me another one of those looks

shopping's not what it used to be.
Nov 2024 · 77
Shadow puppets
On the campsite when the fire is lit
we sit to toast marshmallows
and tell our favourite
stories,

Jennifer
wafer-thin
surprises us all
by tucking in
and demolishes
a pack by herself

and when you lose count
if counting each spark
you can't go back
because
each spark goes dark,

I found that out
by myself.
Nov 2024 · 209
Scraps for the fire.
We're beyond
league tables
perfect badges
hall monitors
and gold stars,
there'll be no progress prizes
until progress is made,

'physician heal thyself'
is about as old as the current
thinking.
Government stategy
Nov 2024 · 72
Slap yourself awake.
Who's going to save us now?
not the man in the lighthouse
or the madman in the Whitehouse
and if you're thinking
him at number ten
think again.
Nov 2024 · 60
Politicians
Of course
if they all ****** off
we'd be better off
wouldn't we?
jeezus and I'm the poorer for thinking that.
Nov 2024 · 85
Floats like a horsefly
It's wine time and a fine time to pour a glass of Chablis, excuse me
if I don't offer you any, I have left you a beer in the fridge as you're not here.

Relaxation takes on a whole new dimension when you're getting pleasantly stewed and the good news is that you can choose how stewed you become, that's what the cork is for.
Nov 2024 · 83
Jazz in the next room
Not sure if I ever knew or even if I wanted to until you came waltzing in.
..and we slow danced around the question that we knew was on our lips.
one day all memories will become a song we sing to bring us comfort in our twilight years.

I, once again, am away to work my little socks off which doesn't get my rocks off but one cannot win them all.
Nov 2024 · 102
That Labour Government
Well
we didn't expect this
and we won't miss it
when it has gone.
Nov 2024 · 91
Beep
It's still beating
and I'm tapping my feet in
time for a rest the change will
do me some good.

as I tire the neurons misfire
and I'm sure I heard
reach for the stars,
but
who's got arms that long?

So
it's a nightcap
not a flat cap
and with a mixer
that'll fix anything.
Nov 2024 · 96
Zero point 15
Nothing is going on here that hasn't gone on before and before you ask me he goes off on a tangent.

It could be worse..

The daffodils on window sills make the world a colourful place, from my window sill if I crane my neck and squint I can see the glint off the mill pond as the sun bounces along it,
at times if I don't look I see *** all.

it's all relative said Auntie Em who was fiddling with her Sheaffer
and I did say Sheaffer not Chauffeur.

Already that time and Monday too
I must do something
anything
everything
nothing?
ok.
Nov 2024 · 109
When enough is that.
Shut the *** up Bill Withers,
a lovely day my ****,

this day was tight, constricting
a day to be fcked in
and stop me if I'm going to last
or
too fast,
cast me aside
throw me away
but for **** sake don't tell me
it
was a lovely day.
Nov 2024 · 73
Stroking the ego
Do you remember,
' a night unlike any other night...'
well
this was a day like so many other days
worked my fingers to the bone
got home and
She
kissed me better,

used ***** as a sealant
which to all intents
was quite pleasant.

But a hard day nevertheless.
Nov 2024 · 81
Seasonally adjusting.
Winter kicked the door in
did a bit of rummaging and
left this poor soul shivering.

I need no scientific explanation
as to why it's flamin' dark
I'm getting back into the bed
*** waking for a lark.
Nov 2024 · 87
Throwing the dice.
Debating whether to be late in
or not to bother going in
at all.
struggling but will decide in a few hours.
Nov 2024 · 88
Three line whip
I'm looking at Armageddon
or maybe it's just the bed I'm on
that's giving me nightmares.
Nov 2024 · 90
Needs new batteries
Nobody is there to tell you that nobody is here and yet we keep on looking,
consigned to the back of a queue where you become see-through and nobody sees you,

dismal and distressing when pressing send and it doesn't go but there's nobody here so nobody will know except for you,

everything is a trial and the error is a sponsored add-on
you try to get on and be judged but the verdict as predicted
goes against you and you're still see-through at the back of an even longer queue and then you think
I must be something in the Grand Scheme
or maybe in the Grand Bazaar
but so far
still looking.
that crap coffee,
work
lunch at the diner
come on
whine a little more,
the door that's locked
the profiles that are blocked
the things we can't see that are
hidden from you and denied to me
cute girls with obtuse angles
the way your hair tangles up
another crap cup of coffee,
blame it all on the algorithm,

if it gets you through the day
even if it's wrong
do it anyway.

I went fishin' and caught
fifteen plastic bags
blamed it on the algorithm.
Nov 2024 · 120
What madness.
I forgot to bring my
aide memoire
so I'll tattoo  your messages
onto my skin

please be brief.
Nov 2024 · 71
Seams like Saturdays
You were relaxing
until the count came in
and now you're screaming.

Hand in the jar and you fumble
the cookies crumble
and so you tumble
but will you rise?

(This work never ends
not even for weekends)

that was a bit random
for a man on
a mission,
but at the moment  
it's too dark to see
if it's all good or just a
bag of tricks.
Nov 2024 · 53
Carpentry
Do dovetail joints
use more papers
and
do they last as long
as a ****?

You don't have to answer
I'm not really fussed
just
asking for a friend
who's as thick as two
short planks.
Nov 2024 · 184
Jumping ships
A slip,
loosening your grip
and you become
one
with the Sun and the stars
as you pirouette
through a million quasars
making your way
to the core.
Nov 2024 · 134
#Random 77
they build bridges so you can jump off them and some men do.
Some people burn them, a neat trick when they're made from granite or concrete,

This has nothing to do with Friday.
That is the bridge we haven't come to,
and a voice from the back shouts,
"Are you sure?"
and I say
I'll cross that question when I come to it.

It must be time for coffee
She said,
looking at me
Nov 2024 · 102
Moan, Moan, Moan.
Work is becoming wearisome and then some,

these old bones creak like rusted door hinges,

the mind is willing for so many things but it appears that willingness only brings less of what your mind wills for and I think that's known as Sod's Law.

I can live with it
She
patches me up
when necessary.
Nov 2024 · 76
Error 404
Have you tried
switching off
and on?

The rise of the ruin
trouble is brewing
the wizard comes out
from behind the curtain,
but
alas it's not Kansas and
there's no one to save us.

Error 404.
Nov 2024 · 76
The boom
The foghorn is wailing to warn ships that sail in the mist,

earlier when it was clearer and we could see where we were
heading
the Captain had said in that Captainish tone,
'we'll be home on the noon tide',

a bit wide of the mark,
midday already and dark.

it doesn't matter how deep the water be
when we're sinking the sea is our bed.

But isn't it Thursday?
said Crusoe to Friday

how long before that book is banned?
Nov 2024 · 60
Is he still there?
well
we say there, but
there could be anywhere

between you and I,
I don't like the guy

but he's still there.
Nov 2024 · 423
More Politics
Never impressed with the worst coming first
but this seems to be the new thing
and it's the same everywhere we go
even here,
you'd think that we would know
a shyster when we saw one.
Nov 2024 · 87
Politics
You're either being
done over
or won over
so get over it.
Nov 2024 · 73
Timed out
They have not yet boxed me away
hip hip and another day
back on the treadmill and here to stay
they have not yet boxed me away.

Trump is on the radio
he should be on the gallows
oops
that slipped out
no pun intended.

I've been hearing about assisted dying
one hundred percent I'll not be trying that

all this news
are you ready for the day
I am
because they have not yet boxed me away.
Nov 2024 · 98
Lost jigsaw pieces
At times, most times,
when you're apart from it
you feel more like a part of it.
Nov 2024 · 93
Election specials
Too many sitting committees
arseholes sat on chairs
what they need to do
is to get out there
and see the state
that this country
is in.

but it's easier to view remotely
what affects you
and disaffects me.
Nov 2024 · 62
#Random 51
Unsecured
that was Houdini
Insecure
is you and me.

Hanging on by our fingertips
and there's a big drop below.

Heroes and Heroines are comic book inventions
no one is running, flying or even dying to save us.
Nov 2024 · 229
Signs on street corners.
Back then to another time
to find the time is now,
now how did that occur?
I swear I switched the switch on,
ah,
but now is then and then was now,

it works at last
trips into the past,
coming soon
been and gone
and
I'm not the only one.

Happy Monday.
Nov 2024 · 79
So terribly sorry.
When you think you're insane
It is only then that you know
that you could be.

Insane or sane
We're all in the asylum
seeking asylum

I'm tired if tired is the right word
of all the *******
because I know it's all
*******


Government programs
like ******'
cartoons
Betty Boop
on a loop.
It's always the ninth,
the ninth hole
the ninth grade
the ninth life,
and then
sometimes when you've made
the right decision
and
taken the right path
it
gives you the last laugh.

Dead ends like split ends
end in what tends to be
catastrophes,
someone shouts, apostrophes,
I don't think he means a Greek
philosopher,
Nov 2024 · 110
Patently pending
before you've even had twenty winks they want to wake you,
what happened to forty winks?

it's the depression and sleeping's not keeping pace with the modern cost of living, said someone who was born into the lap of luxury
ha
and we thought the gentry were mentally unstable but it's us who wake early to take up their breakfast,

we need sectioning, we need
to be put in a locked ward,
and kept away from the upper crust
and it's what they should do
before that lot ***** you
again.
Nov 2024 · 118
The standard bearer
Sometimes I surprise myself,
he eyes himself
and thinks
I scrub up well,
but I wake up the same
calling your name.

From the battlements, a trumpet sounds
rolling across the manicured lawns and
well-tended grounds
there are no rough edges in my dreams.

jetliners line the runways
someways a way out there
and I'm stood here twiddling my thumbs
watching as she ties up her hair.
dreams are ignorant of the time we set them in, they jump across the centuries like I used to jump across small streams.
Nov 2024 · 73
Progress report Mk 2
'Old Macdonald had a farm'
e i, A i, Oh!

that's it then
do away with working men
and put robots in their place,

It's all artificial
so
why worry about it?
let the robots get covered
in cow ****,
it worked wonders for the roses.
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