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Keep your distance!
so you can't see what we're doing.

they had their snouts in the gravy
and we were being told that they weren't shady,
but we were being
robbed on an industrial scale.

and now
they'll put me on their watch list
so when I'm sniffed out and snuffed out
you'll know who did it.
Mar 8 · 38
How are you doing?
Dreamt of pins and needles and
woke up with pins and needles
so
I'm waving my arm about
this must be a sign about
something.

Aha
Friday this way
and that's what I like to see
signs that are in plain language
designed, I think, for me.

The budget as usual was crap
just when we think that we've won
they load us up with another ton
of *******
and we end up paying more
for it.

She,
tells me to keep calm
but I'm still waving my arm
and
not saying goodbye just yet.
Mar 7 · 52
Old school rules
In through the window and out of the door and isn't that what money is for?

adages, pages of history being lost in my memory occasionally resurface.

we used to have lots of sayings
and old wives tales
I wonder where they went.

if Dad said you'll get what for and you asked what for?
you got what for even if you didn't know what for,

the way wasn't the light back then
it was just the way things were.
They say we're being supercharged
I think they meant overcharged.
two-pence off insurance
but they'll take their pound of flesh

poor people get crumbs from the table
and they're told that it's Battenburg cake
for **** sake
what will it take?

it's a dismal day when you're down in the dumps
they wouldn't understand that.
National Health cuts,
but what cuts and who
will they cut from?
certainly
not Long John
because
that has already been done.
Mar 6 · 25
Doc Holliday
Laudanum,
medicinal
like ***
but not as tasty.

I'm sticking with the ***
although ***** comes a close second,
laudanum numbed me to all but the pain,
of needing it again,

the only poppy coming my way
is the one for Remembrance Day.
and I've forgotten when that is.
Mar 6 · 41
More about life
You'll either love it
or
tell 'em to shove it
and they'll think you
polite
or
impolite
but if you want to
you
can change your mind
they can too.

There's nothing that's set in stone

and if you believe that
you need putting in a home.
Mar 6 · 120
Best foot forward
I know,
you just woke and thought misery
but happily
I'm here to tell you,
not so.

Did you win the lottery?
if you did
please
DM me
I have an exciting investment
opportunity.

Wednesday
and you are a ray
of sunshine
don't forget that.
Mar 5 · 52
Reefs
I'd
like a boat on a palm beach in reach of the shore and more time to spend my time doing nothing and doing nothing more
or perhaps a flagon or two of Morgan's brew could be added to the store and nothing more,

I already factored in her gin because I want her to be with me

She doesn't know it yet but I bet She's going to love climbing coconut trees, skinning her knees while dodging the sand fleas.

I'm just finding the right time to tell her.
Mar 5 · 104
The cleanup crew
Perhaps the bottle itself
is a message.

don't throw your junk
in the ocean.
Boiled chicken or poached fish
both come with rice in a chipped dish
or I could choose,
yes,
not to go on a diet
but
to scoop up the chicken or fish and
to fry it,.

I might try it.

She,
keeps me on my toes
She
keeps me wide awake
She,
keeps me from the butchers
and a nice fat juicy steak.

I decided on the fish
I wish it wasn't so
and
to keep the peace I'll poach it
but the rice will have to go.
The bailiff with the shotgun made us run too
and he was wild but not a child.

those were those days but these days we amble through
the memories as if we're on a ramble in the countryside
wearing comfy clothing and who knows in
what order they'll appear,
some of us don't even know what year we're in and
it's clear that some never will.
Mar 4 · 31
The third staff
Cavemen
brave men
shame we couldn't
save them

evolution
like air pollution
affects us all
except for that
Troglodyte
at the all-night
cafe
but
wherever we're going
we've already been there
in
previous lifetimes.
It was always ninety nine bottles of beer on the wall, did anyone else notice that?
I notice and am at times noticed but that I try not to notice.

Ageing is one of the signs that I'm getting older
I try not to notice that too.

It's certainly Monday and I know because I can feel it in my bones, that's probably another sign of ageing,, but I suppose you get out what you pays in.

Philosophy could be the key.
Mar 4 · 45
Seasides
Soaked by the spindrift
to near to the shoreline
after all this time
you'd think I'd know better.
They will crush my bones
and from them
produce
fine china
and
I'll end up
on a shelf
in a glass
cabinet
and people will say
how beautiful I look
and I'll think
**** 'em.
Mar 3 · 63
Scribbles scribble
Back at the lake, I take a moment to look and see if my reflection's still there and it is,
not much changes up in the mountains, time is almost dormant, unlike the chamois who is once again pregnant.
Mar 2 · 53
You're a bit late
You can't experiment
expecting it to make a statement
it's all been done before

with drugs
with ***
at sea on the
cargo decks

we've  seen the way that Tarzan swings
the beauty when Fitzgerald sings,
the writing on the wall has been done
and we have done it all.
What are we to think if not
to think of what we are?

Wishing
'Our Father'
was farther away

the days go
the night comes
and I'm sitting here
twiddling my thumbs,
but I have
the same amount of energy
it's just hiding somewhere inside
of me.

Yeah
it's Saturday
hip...hip
which will probably need replacing.
Mar 1 · 65
14 rifles
You don't want poetry
you don't want poets' views
you want sad news
bad news,
news that makes you want to
trip out
rip your hair out
and today
this is what news is about,
blow jobs
no jobs
ten for a penny snow jobs

Peter pays Paul and robs Simon,
and now, spending time on
some rock or other
no
you don't want poetry,
you want anaesthesia
Who remembers the sugar lumps that the school nurse used
to fool you?
oh yea
and then she'd jab you with a needle that your mother would have used for knitting
and you're only nine-******* yourself at the back of the line awaiting your turn,

we never had a choice then
only a shrill little voice then
and I think they injected me
with mediocrity

who's to know now?
Mar 1 · 96
Capt. Linnaeus Tripe
Taking pictures of
mental images,
these are the
ghosts that float
in silver
iodide.
Feb 29 · 101
We break
Some take time
some take their time.

In a forest at
my darkest
waiting for the day
to break.

There are always shadows
in the valley
lillies wilting
on the tomb
when sandstorms rage
across the desert
in this tiny attic
room.
Feb 29 · 78
The passed
It used to be popular
peculiar and popular
the Ford Popular used
to be popular too.

I went to work on the docks
a place full of life and hard knocks
but it was fun
it was also fifty years ago
and now
those days are done.

and we all forget what fun can be
mud pies and pink jelly for tea
or do we?
Feb 28 · 52
The dolly mixture
I've seen people pull things from a hat
I've seen others who can't do that
but you couldn't tell just by looking at them
and by them I mean women and of course men.

There's no accounting for taste and that's why some chefs are still living
its all got something to do with live and let live
don't poison the patrons.

Wednesday came and went
I hope you spent it wisely.

I'm still looking at the hat
wondering how he did that
but
silently thinking to myself

clever little ****
Feb 28 · 89
Going it alone
Cutting the umbilical
Father waxes lyrical,
Mother's quite hysterical
baby flies the nest.
Feb 27 · 39
The den
Lots of bodies channeling
trying to get their MoJo's in
some like me are whistling
because I don't like channeling.

And what's a man like me to do?
shuffle off to Kathmandu?
wish and hope that things come true
is
that all a man like me can do?

She whispers sweet nothings
which turn into somethings
and everything
works out okay.
Feb 27 · 42
Fair enough
The wheel spins
someone loses
the goldfish wins
a prize.

I was in luck
and caught a duck
but to be fair
it was going around
in circles and probably
needed rescuing anyway.

The ghost train
was running late
which made me feel
right at home.
We're all on the same road and
we'll all get weighed out at the end.

and you can fidget all you like
you can walk or go on a bike
but
you'll all reach the barrier that only
lifts for the ferryman and you'll all
pay for the crossing unless you can
learn how to swim.

Hotel California...dreamin'

and if we swim what then?
back to the same old again?

here,
there are more knives than forks in the road,
too many bandits who'd like to lighten your load
be watchful and wary,
he said nothing can scare me
but he hadn't met Cerberus yet.
She helped herself from the buffet pulled up a pouffe and sat down with the family to talk over the tragedy of what happened to poor Uncle Bill.

I thought that was a mouthful as she took a mouthful of Auntie Jemima's salmon souffle,

She said I can't talk if I have nothing to say
I said you talk buckets of nothing every day

that's why I'm in the doghouse.
Feb 26 · 44
Tightens the screw
Got a shilling for the meter because he wants to meet his maker.

Coal gas, now that was a keeper, two whiffs and you wouldn't even recognise your maker.

he takes a bow and stumbles off into the, 'here I am now and what am I going to do?

recalibrate mate!
reset and get on with it.
Feb 26 · 30
The algorithm
When it looks to be Monday but you look and see Friday because you want another payday but it really is Monday so you cry into the pillow
and I have
and I will,

I'm cutting down on ***** and ****
my once fine clothes have turned to rags
I'm selling secondhand Sainsbury's carrier bags
times are not just tables.

But I'm looking forward too
to everything that I can do
and doing this with you
is one of life's greatest treasures.
Feb 25 · 72
Legends
Systems come
they also go
broken hearts
do much the same.

But we're not machines
although sometimes it seems
that we are.

The weekend tends to
and sometimes does not

I'm very much like that.
Feb 25 · 62
Links
There are complex chains and they go to pains to let us know but simplicity is the key.

I have complexes but that is not the same as a complex chain unless one of my complexes is about a complex chain and then it is,
could be that complexity is the key.

oh
duplicity?

Sunday
and the day falls slow from the pulpit where the preacher shows us the way to go
take heed
we need the touch of madness and the light of lunacy to set us free from the mundane
and quite nicely we're back to the complex chain.

My work here is done.
Feb 25 · 64
Green cheese
Is it just me or does the morning look a bit Monet?
there is or seems to be
a faint mist that musses over the colours and forms.

cue
things from the deep that keep you from sleep
or dreams that you make when awake.

all we need is a raven
and a scream from,
Edvard Munch.
Feb 25 · 71
The world at one
News.
when there is none they'll make some up to cover their tracks which could be half-tracks and we could be at war,

but they make up some good stuff,
stuff like chemicals in the foodstuff,
stuff that fills your need to read some facts

and even if those facts are fiction we'll take
direction from them and
head towards our own destruction
with a glazed look in our eyes.
Feb 24 · 40
Just words
Reading the twenty-third Psalm
on the twenty fourth day
of the twenty fourth year
of two thousand A.D

what the *** is wrong with me?

I took two tablets after my meal
the doctors told me that I'd feel
much better,
but now
I'm reading Paul's letter to the
Corinthians
aha
picked up the Bible by mistake.
Feb 24 · 32
Ace of diamonds.
The chances of being chanced upon by chance.

Pomp and Circumstance
All well and good
if you're a Victorian
a Georgian
or a heathen.

Historically
or
hysterically
but never sure which.

I am sure that
life is but a
twitch
on the face
of
adversity.
Feb 24 · 46
The apple barrel
Give an opinion,
and they'll
tell you it's wrong

well who gives a
Monty Pythons
when it's all a
flying circus
and
the clowns are in charge.

They put me in charge of ***-holes,
apparently, they're multiplying and
circumventing the natural order
of things,
and I wonder what things?

I'm also still wondering about Jessica
did she really write ****** on her
typewriter?

More questions again,
and
I'm running out of pen
time
to put the kettle on
and
Polly wants a pay rise.
Feb 24 · 34
That learning curve
There was no baby under the gooseberry bush,
the stork never flew in at dawn
so
how in God's name do those babies appear
on the day that they're born?

Someone mentioned gestation
but I think
that's on the District Line.
Feb 23 · 109
That gathering
The backstory of a past glory
written in the pennies on your eyes

and now you're in the parlour
with your friends and family
filing past you
it's too late for worries now

and in the other room
where the buffet is laid
the wine has been opened
no one looks dismayed
,
on the contrary
they only look hungry
for
what you left behind.
Feb 23 · 52
Walking back to...
She  sang like a young
Helen Shapiro
and I'm old enough
to temember her so.
Feb 23 · 32
Did I do that.
I should by now be in Nottingham
hunting
Robin Hood,

some think that
Robin's a saint
but I'm here to tell you
he ain't
he's
a scoundrel
and he's up to no good.

Robbing the rich
to give to the poor,
oh yeah
for sure,

he's in the hood
and those in the hood
are always
up to no good.

Marion
should marry
Little John
because
size isn't everything.
Feb 23 · 119
The procra....
I didn't do it yesterday
I might not do it today
I may do it tomorrow
but I couldn't really say
and anyway
what's the flippin' rush,
there's nothing else to do
and
if I don't do it anytime soon
it has got sod all to do with you.

She says,
but you don't take a breather from breathing

oh yeah
She'll soon have me believing that anything
is possible.
Feb 23 · 42
Self propelling pencil
That's a surprise I said opening my eyes
to find a steaming hot mug of tea on the table,

it's always fun if you're still able to have fun
after the taxes are paid,
when the bills are laid out end to end
and nothing left in your purse to spend
and by fun I mean krap I hope that
is clear to you.

She says have a sip
I reply
in a bit
but
She means the tea
silly me
and I thought
but never mind,
Feb 22 · 35
Life and death
It's just a ladybird limping down a leaf of meadow grass watched hungrily by many eyes which funnily enough belonged to only one spider.

If I was limping, Mother would have kissed my leg better if I'd let her, but that poor ladybird was all alone,

I started singing that nursery ****,
'ladybird, ladybird fly away home'
then realised I was being unkind to the spider
who by this time had almost caught up to her

I closed my eyes and
nature did its thing.
Feb 22 · 44
On moor hill
On the attack
but the demons are ready and the horrors fight back,
but to stop cannot be a choice that I'll make and taking a break from this isn't an option.

I carry on
the demons carry on
it's a right carry on
no one is laughing

In this, the age of electricity
we're still being gaslit,
still hiding from the monsters
that hide under the bed.
Feb 22 · 21
Order
We'll
call it a **** show and
they'll make it a hit show
then your license fee increases,
and for re-runs read home runs
we know that they're creaming it in.

they're dealing from the bottom of the deck
and them shysters in Westminster are up to
their neck in it
and so
we'll call it a **** show.

piggin' sick is not the same
as a pig in clover,
but
we'll get over it
or go under
and sink.
Feb 22 · 61
Our Susan.
I'm pretty certain
and even when I'm
not certain
I'm still pretty,

that's pure vanity.

I remember
my little sister
having a vanity case
where her vanity was kept
because she was always
pretty
without
a hint of vanity.
Feb 22 · 43
There never was.
Pistols at dawn when you worry yourself sick before you're even born.

You'll paint and the paint will run and you'll wait  until one day the waiting is done and you're blind because you stared to long at rhe sun and  the paint will still run until the waiting is done.

I wallpaper wallflowers into Ivory Towers and plant pots in which tomatoes will grow and the night slices in with that lopsided grin and a belch to let you know that its here.

I dream I'm in Venice with a girl who points out the dangers of playing catch me and we're not even strangers

what's it all about?

if I never knew
if it couldn't be
when you're blinded by the sun
and you're four miles out at sea

what's it all for?

Thursdays are deep days
the days when we keep days
as days to remember.
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