Not eating chocolate covered cherries and strawberries and lychees and onions and chillies and grapes and marshmallows and turtle meat and cake and shark bones and oysters and camel and beef and beef with dog food and rabbit fur and smarties and skittles and twine and rope and yak and buses and buffalo and authors and novels and chipping containers and bicylces and emus and penguins and polar bear slippers and darned socks and stewed lobster and Darwin Deez and get well cards and ibuprofen tablets is fine with me.

If the motivation is there and why wouldn't it be
I could hold back the tides
I could dry up the sea,
we
if we chose could close deals on the spot
we
could do such a lot
with
the right motivation,
reach the right destination without reading a map
zap any obstacles that obstruct our path,
grow mangos and lychees
bathe in the ganges
do as we please
with the right
motivation.

I hadn’t seen you for quite a few days
And instead of ringing up the search party
I called you up on the phone;
Hoping you’d chased your dreams
And would come back and
Realise how much I loved you.
You whispered sweet nothings
Down the phoneline
You told me,
Quite frankly
Bitter-sweetly,
I could go to Hell
But honey, why would you want
Me to go down to the fires down below?
With the Hell I’m living here on Earth.
I hung up the receiver
And saw shadows of your humour
Firstly on the fridge door;
A post-it read:
I’m having the house and the cat
Your favourites, lychees
Are on the top shelf.
I didn’t want them.
They’re so bitter, so sweet.

i smash my guitar one day,
start listening to
b.b.c. radio 4
the next day,
what in god's name?!

p.s. it's a talkie station,
no music,
first up the diet problem
of finland, esp. in the
dairy rich region that
inspired sibelius,
about how: real men
don't work on vegetables
but on fat, because vegetables
are for animals...
and how a national intervention
demanded berries on the menu
of these men;
a list of fruits i used to eat:
pomegranates, passion fruit,
apples pears pineapples bananas,
cantaloup melons water melons,
sharon fruit mangos,
strawberries blackberries blueberries,
lychees oranges mandarins,
white grapes black grapes,
sour weeds cherries and above all else
gooseberries; and that's not
mentioning the vegetables.
but about listening to b.b.c. radio 4,
how did i become so middle-aged
"middle-class" english so quick?

Out for a shopping
With my love basket
Some shining stars
For his sparkling eyes
A bundle of Rose wood
For his husky body
Few spoons of white rice
For his bright teeth
Some tender strawberries
For his smiling rosy lips
A bag of darkness
For his black hair
Some romantic lychees
For his loving heart
Something special
Exceptional from shopping
Giving my soul
To make him alive !