.           Nocturnal
             Insomnia
                   &
          Nyctophobia
                   a
         Stygian Saga

  Asleep full of nightmares
awake counting sheep an
owl became rooster when
    the moon, sun did leap.



15 & 16th April 2022.

Yesterday my 96 year old
mother paid us a visit at
the country house we are
currently minding in the
townland of Kilballyowen.

The tossed bread, which is
normally thrown to the hens,
was incorporated into a
traditional pain perdu, or en
Anglais, a bread pudding.

Afterwards, the dispossessed
were rewarded avec Le Creuset,
as there were good and crusty
peckings to be had from all
around the high cast iron edges.

VENEZ
EU
LA.

In French it means

OMINOUS

Because Macron
opposes Madura.

Yet we all know,
Le Pen is the rightful
President of La France.

When I woke up this
morning, there was a
tower crane pointing
directly at my house.

Directly above the dining table,
suspended from a ceiling anchor,
was a gooey, gluey, fly strip.

Fountained from a cardboard
green cylinder, resembling a
shotgun cartridge, fired.

The flies, numbering too many
to mention, were a metaphorical
symbolism, for the lead pellets.

Underneath, on the same axis,
was the serendipity of their
demise, a crumbed bread board.

There was a footnote with
an NB after the PS at the
end of his last email to me.

The main text of his missive
was about how dangerous
USA was due to their Nukes.

Can't be trusted, they used
them before in Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, did you know?

Well I did, but I refused to go
see the Enola Gay when I was
in Washington D.C.

Ended up with the NB which
said that I could kiss my ***
goodbye if Imran hits on Modi!

The thing about it is, we might
have Niobium's to kiss if they
decide to do what America did!

.                     (˚<


caw caw, said the crow

                   mister hawk has finally

caught **** canine


                   §    §.   §
                   \||//

Good Bad Ugly.
A shoot between
3 monkey's, one
of them blinkered!

My bets are on
Corbyn and May
to shoot the DUP's
Arlene Foster.

but for New Zealand

             insomniac musings would

have no audience

               <>

Samaritans are

                         only interested in

suicide haiku's









For Coral Christchurch NZ.
14 and15/04/2022

p.s

And for people in Seattle

Pollex, or Digitus Medius for
the Democratic Unionist Party!

TO THINK, PEOPLE BELIEVE
IN god WHOM I HAVE ALWAYS
VIEWED AS A LOW CASE
FABRICATION, ACCESSED
BY A DOWNING OF THE
BROW, GENUFLECTING, BY
KNEELING OR BY DYING, IS
BETTER BY FAR THAN ANY
MAGIC OR FAIRYTALE, EVEN
MORE THAN THE GRIMMS
COULD HAVE CONJURED UP.

I am of the impression that
Theresa, may well be a closet
brexistentialist with a secret
agenda which has a veneered
xenophobic xeroxicised tint
brexternally, but, her visceral
brexcrement is brexasperating,
to the point of brexorcising, or,
at the minimum, brexpropriation!

BREXIT    IS    GREAT.



it's  britain  that's  less.

.

                 Pilot.

     The flight into Egypt,
     long before GPS or
    radar, and despite a
     tempest of tumulus
      proportions which
       caused the worst
       turbulence in the
       history of aviation,
     Pontius, on a prayer
  and a wing descended
  from the heavens to be
      greeted by the tree
      wise men who were
    pruning olives where
  is now believed to have
  been the Golan Heights.

.           W A R N I N G.
                WARNING.
                  warning.

   Santa Klaus is a *******,
who goes into children’s rooms
after dark, while Rudolf, a ****
  sympathiser, metaphorically
     promotes, Khmer Rouge,
      plus The Red Brigade,
as he waits in the snow with
a Rufous nose collecting ***’s,
from insomniacs, the homeless,

                      and

           Domatophobiacs!

You told us that Muslîms
Were evil and some
Still believe

You told us that blacks
Were ***** and some
Still believe

You said the same about us,
Yet some Irish still believe,
What you said about them!

On a bright blue sky
which is rare as hens
teeth in Ireland, I saw
a jet stream that looked
exactly like a tuning fork.
I don't suppose there is
any connection between
that and the sound barrier.

Let's not out the dark be seen, lest
those with grilled vision bind us.

Behind woven webs,
widows in blackness wait,

for the fly by nighters,
witch hunters bait.

Lace curtains are the first
sign of a madwoman.

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On the Killarney road
just by the race course
out side Mallow, there
is a dead crow by a can.

Rue Basse Turds is
the longest street in
Lacoste and were it
not for les crottes
des chiens du famille
Truphemus, barefooted
blind people would never
find le bureau de Pierre Cardin
at the very end, just by
Place de L'eglise et La Poste.

The Scots neer wore
a diaper, so the Welsh
absorbed their leek-

A Swansea song &
Corgi Prince is all
they have to speak.

The w.a.s.p's have had
their hay day, as they
paddle up the creek.

            <>

While Paddy’s watch
with bated breath, the
union jack to streak!

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         /   \
       /       \
A telegraph pole is being
hugged by her leafy branches.
An expression of a mothers
pride at her wee cone who
was taken away in the storm,
but returned home years later.

Now, would you be looking
at him, a fine upright lad who
didn't  forget where he came
from and well connected
too, by the looks of him.

.                 THEFINNITION

         Oughtism is a word used to
       describe a desired or expected
     state of a seemingly possible but
the prognosis is for a scarcely probable.

Asperger girl being paid
to take on masculine role
is a fee-male.

Life after Messi's
Net Flicks will be
like eating unstrained
spaghetti without sauce.

Rosemary was a  


                          Sage-Femme, yet, when she had Thyme,  


used Dill though, s’Parsley !

Poem To Stop The War
             ( a laureates decree )            

   “ Pen a peace and stop the war “

            
                                <>


       Request denied, my integrity

    would be compromised by such

   a contribution, because I was not

summoned to compose one for Iraq.


      Besides, death is the ultimate

  democracy, as not all are fortunate

  enough to be born, but those of us

who were, get the opportunity to die.


The problem is, not at the same time.


   Everyone has an axe to grind with

   the colonisers and sure what could

sweeter than to see the great powers

annihilate themselves, everyone loves

fireworks, we missed 1666 in London.


  Russell Brand said he doesn’t want

  to see a nuclear escalation because

    he has children, piffle I say, that is

       like a woman pushing a pram

     out on to the street to halt traffic.


   The earth shows up those of value

  and those who are good for nothing,

besides, if you believe in God there's

  nothing to fear and the evolutionists

   don’t mind a bit of it either, so no, I

     refuse to write an anti war poem.

took ****** b4 leaving
hit kerb en route got
puncture no jack

I'm not your voluntary hostage,
paying for my freedom will be
captivity, I’m not going to beg.
You keep on ringing Pavlov’s
bell, but pull your hand away
    when you see me salivate.

Your not my salvation, there
  can be no saviour for a soul
incarnate or the free spirit of
  an esotericist, I am from the
   ether where my inspiration
  is the pension of sustenance.

.                    Democracy


            if you are an illiterate

                a half wit or gay


              if you’re criminal

              female or a stray


              if you're Black or

           a Jew or don’t pray


          Once in four you can

               have your say


             Pens and paper

          supplied on the day


            Your vote means

            it’s just a display.

BR is an abbreviation
              for,
Bromine, Bedrooms,
British Rail and Bread.

Fava Bean, but from Latin Faba.
And it is a fab flour, it is what
gives French bread that perfume
one encounters when first visiting
La France. With a mere 2% as an
additive, this encounter with the
aroma of freshly ground coffee
beans, fills the air with an *******
eloquence of which is more seductive
than anything Chanel has ever produced.

Since returning from Provence,
I see the Nimbostratus of our
Irish skies, as a metaphor for
state sponsored loft insulation.

It looks *****, it's always there
and one wonders if it serves any
purpose other than preventing
light through tiles into the attic.

Number 19 Corona Row
is where Covid Con lives.
He is a retired bank robber
still wears a mask because
there is a wanted poster in
the local Police Station with
his mugshot, so if you see
anyone acting suspiciously
such as social distancing or
washing hands excessively
this could be Con trying to
erase his finger prints from
his right hand, the one he
used on the safe door dials.
Con, originally from a place
in Ireland called Connemara
is a fluent Irish speaker, so
he may occasionally slip in
an Irish focal in a sentence.

Worlds End is the Asp hole
of London Sadie, just along
the way from Loan Square,
past Beau Champ Place and
Peter's, where Shylock lives.

Urban domestication via discarded
excess from a world of intemperance.

Deprived of McDonates, Darwinian
crows are invading seed sanctuary's.

I am watching the evolution of
demise in our vegetable garden.

Carnivorous colonisation of herbivores.

Genus Corvus aggressively preying on
the pedestals of suspended bird baskets.

Survival of the fattest.

Covid is a cracked mirror putting life in
a perspective, not previously postured.

Slimy Snails of Sligo,
Slither Slowly and
Sleazily Slouching,
Suspiciously Sliding
Surreally, Squirming
Sidelong, Stopping,
Senior, Sitizens Special
Status Social Services.

A roti, is a flat round bread,
so, we are almost there, time
for a baker to pay tribute to
Luciana Pavarotti di Modena,
besides, it was the profession
of his father, who it was, that
yeasted this magnificent tenor.

In retrospect, palindromes
are what dyslexics see when
they reflect on the shadows
of memory lane bygones.

Got my first Irish cold,
woke up today like a
sniffer dog.

Must to go buy some
propper handkerchiefs.

Since they began making
them out of toilet paper,
noses become Rudolf'd.

To Saint Patrick, for banishing
the snakes from Ireland.

To The Pied Piper for ridding
the rats out of Hamelin.

And to Pierre Cardin for hunting
the crocodiles out of Lacoste.

Awake in the Black Forest.

   At night, tides of debris,
    sediment and dross, flo
   to a swollen mass behind
   my tightly sealed eyelids.
              
               <o> “ <o>

     At dawn, rays of light
     prise a forced opening,
    releasing a ciliary flush
   of diurnal apprehension.











16/02/2022

The ‘Power' Of Now


It’s just midnight Ekhart & due

To the EU sanctions on Russia

We have had a ‘power' outage

Here in Bretteville, despite our

Proximity to Flamemville which

Is a Normandy Nuclear Reactor.


It's still the 29th at ‘present’ yet

In a second it will be tomorrow,

But I must put the clock back

Sixty minutes, so it is going to

Be yesterday for another hour.

With luck I’ll sleep before ‘now’.

Every minute of every day

   in every country every one

   wheels their unconscious

    conscience up to the till,

      listen to mesmerising

       morse as they feed

         the conveyor belt

          with cheap cuts

           of plastic wrap

             gross-eries.

Nobody ever drowns in
a shower, especially an
Irish person, where rain
is an integral part of our
survival. One could get
hit by a Cat or Dog even
both at the same time if
the luck wasn't with you,
but baths! other than for
dyeing coats I could never
see the point of anchoring
in contaminated water that
goes cold and leaves a ****
mark around ones collar bone,
and a step that if a builder made
a stairs of such a height, the
district surveyor and the insurance
company would ban immediately.

En France, there is an illusion
where it is commonly perceived,
that the slower one moves the
longer one lives. This adage was
reinforced by Citroen, with their
l’escargot shaped deux chevaux.

I'm gone Bach to decompose
what took me a lifetime to
orchestrate ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~




Johan Sebastien Return
1685 – 1750

Oh but: were Midas here and
all within his grasp to keep.

Or be it avarice and not at all
reality, but sleep.

Could such allure, or
penchant haste,

Impartiality confuse,
thus, tantalising taste.

            <>

Of course, as we all know,
Midas soon discovered, that
bread was more important
than gold. He starved to death.

When Juke first met Jack

in the box


He realised he'd a very

fine vox


So he rang up the States

and arranged record dates


Which were made at the

studios of Fox.

I had porridge and a boiled
egg with coffee and plain
bread today for breakfast.

I unplugged the toaster, as
there was nothing much to
put us in celebratory mood.