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Aug 2017 · 333
Untitled
SQUID Aug 2017
Nervous teeth under ice
Tiny voice repeats
Chattering pins
Seized each warm hair
Aug 2017 · 278
The Restaurant
SQUID Aug 2017
can't swallow frozen spit
the menu crumbles
no waiter waits
cold salt soup steams
Aug 2017 · 307
The Lift
SQUID Aug 2017
Stuck in the lift again.
- "You're meant to go down."
- "I'm going up!"
- "You're going down."
Aug 2017 · 462
Sometimes I don't finish..
SQUID Aug 2017
Sometimes I don't finish
Some things I begin
Somehow, sometimes,
Something ATE it!
Aug 2017 · 347
Goodbye Swirl
SQUID Aug 2017
Now I miss my painting.
Hologram lizards
Delectful trees
Green tomatoes.
While everyone was away, I decided to go for it and rip down my old art. I'd just been to the Royal Academy Art Summer Show and absorbed near 1000 pieces of art so I wanted to move on. Then someone emailed to ask to buy it. That painting had been on the wall since I was at school, about 19 years.   Irritating me. Why now? Yes - life IS that strange. I think it was a test.

I could try sellotaping it back together.
Aug 2017 · 385
My pencil
SQUID Aug 2017
Didn't sharp my pencil.
Years went by until...
One day, I did,
and .... WHAT A NOISE!!!!
Aug 2017 · 343
Any direction
SQUID Aug 2017
This/ you/  we/ could go in
Any direction.
But... I hope you'll/...
We'll -- write a song!
not the best but the sentiment's there! I like to express the clunkiness that is in interactions/ communication/ hopes/ ambitions too.
Aug 2017 · 417
Pencils
SQUID Aug 2017
Pencils have voices
some are wheedly.
Others, warm, ripe,
Fruit. For hearing.
Aug 2017 · 266
Untitled
SQUID Aug 2017
He's back in my bed now.
Snores... draw a forest
in shadows, where
dream flowers bloom.
Aug 2017 · 426
Writing's the fastest
SQUID Aug 2017
Of all the ways I know,
writing's the fastest,
in head, out mouth,
out hand, out there.
Aug 2017 · 370
This map
SQUID Aug 2017
Take a BITE from this map,
See where it leads you....
Nowhere places...!
From taste, to taste.
Aug 2017 · 288
Tomorrow
SQUID Aug 2017
Tomorrow is BLUE in
Possibilities,
One stretchy beat
P----u-s-h-e-s      o-u-t     w-a-l-l-s.
Aug 2017 · 433
Making
SQUID Aug 2017
Let breath slow dissolve
A tablet of ink
Colourful dreams
Deep -- flow skywards.
Aug 2017 · 279
This Still Lake
SQUID Aug 2017
Whooping dense coil of glue,
within this still lake,
fibrous **** SITS...................
a trap for fear.
SQUID Aug 2017
Inflatable bride march,
Plastic enormous,
Stoical hens,
Mystery "pleasures".
Aug 2017 · 216
A happy sleeplessness
SQUID Aug 2017
A "happy" sleeplessness.
Fresh sun on your skin,
Daydream shadows,
Blight careworn woe.
Aug 2017 · 316
This thought won't go far
SQUID Aug 2017
Butterfly yellow car
This thought won't go far.
Up it drifts. Up.
furthens, beyond.
Aug 2017 · 202
Some People
SQUID Aug 2017
Some people want to know,
Some people don't and
Some - - - just haven't
quite decided.
Aug 2017 · 329
Tenner
SQUID Aug 2017
- Can't work out whose this is.
- I don't know either.
  But if it's yours..
  Dinner's on you.
Aug 2017 · 236
Remember
SQUID Aug 2017
Old friend says, "Remember?"
Stories of my youth,
Summers flicker,
I reach for me.
Aug 2017 · 457
Nothing Serious
SQUID Aug 2017
The test results are back!
It appears that a:

sack of rice

                       has

replaced your brain.
Aug 2017 · 369
Flow
SQUID Aug 2017
Ideas caress my mind
warm sun, old red bricks
words sprout and lift
petals, blue wings..
Aug 2017 · 327
Art
SQUID Aug 2017
Art
Art is just a way for
some - to organise
our thoughts and to
deliver them.
Aug 2017 · 311
The Problem is
SQUID Aug 2017
A shortage of women
In power, means those who
reach the Top are
mostly Tories.
Aug 2017 · 177
Ignorance
SQUID Aug 2017
Mauve fantasist of walls
Seeks "clarity" as
loud concrete lies
rupture his skin.
Aug 2017 · 223
Wish
SQUID Aug 2017
To sleep without old fear
Gnawing at your breath
I wish you sleep,
Sweet innocence.

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