don’t know if I can make tomorrow
how about the day after
I’ve had a little more time to think  ..

rang you
didn’t answer
so you never heard the
question

How much lacquer was enough?
As you continued
To buff
Your C.S.E
Final submission?
An eighties
Black and white
Portable TV stand
Perfect height
And footprint
Beautiful
Mortice and tendon
Stained just right
Forty years
Joints still tight
Now me ma
Keeps
Her landline
And Siri
Upon it.

Slow motion car crash
Circular firing squad
The efficiency
Of the placement
Of deckchairs

Herding cats
Clutching straws
Barking up at wrong trees
Knocking loudly on empty doors

Keep calm
And carry on
Loose lips sink ships
Do you hope to be
On the right side
Of apocalypse?

One misfolded protein
Leads to another
The next thing you know
You've **** yer pants
And your brains have turned
To blubber.

They were pilling and raving
Now scrimping
But not saving
Blair's Britain's
Gucci loafers
Hoofed Em
Right in the spuds.

It was a good day
Yesterday
But a bit **** the day after
On the see saw
You face
A fuzzy opponent
He insights
Both
Fear and laughter.