"rizla" poems
Iron bench, open sore
dragon rock, three in score
flesh on body, tortured soul
arms high, in hell's hole
Corner bulb, neon light
drake hotel, second flight
jolly pop, rizla plus
open flame, behind the bus
Broken fixtures, tully hat
channel swimmer, at the bat
blind alley, words of cuss
dealer waving, in a fuss
Grim reaper, boys in blue
super bee, armored shrew
****** sips, swollen glands
potpourri, on demand
Black death, huddler's arch
beat the cold, and summer parch
toothless grin, ****** glare
obituary, to be shared
Dead of night, decontrol
cheeva tar, black coal
east central, chinatown
mr. freeze, is coming down
Foot soldier, skidder row
chicken feed, and white blow
silver spoon, casted hand
demons surface, on demand
Frantic sounds, below the glass
poison waiting, to be passed
crack pipes, over coat
bodies flat, begin to float
Gospel sounds, from union square
friends gather, deep in prayer
guardian angels, now deployed
thornton park, without a void
Covenant house, in holy charm
welcomes all, with open arms
salvation spreads, on chapel row
kindness that, cannot be sold
Oct 14, 2017
Oct 14, 2017 at 5:36 PM UTC
She is like an indie film played backwards, just a bunch of beautiful pictures.
And her eyes roll like rizla between the italian mans fingers.
She smokes with pouted lips, as if ready to kiss her lover.
She looks the same when he pulls on her hair and glides his tongue over the skin of her neck.
And she smiles the same smile when his teeth graize her *******
Her eyes also roll when his hands hold onto her waist and she remembers the lipstick stain she left on the end of her cigarette.
She leaves the same stain on the rim of his .... forefinger.
‘I don’t know why I like you so much.’ He whispers into her curls.
‘It’s because I remind you of hash and tobacco.’ She replies.
Dec 5, 2018
Dec 5, 2018 at 5:32 AM UTC
If the Scots
get independence
will we get better ****
I'd vote for that.
Maybe the 'silent majority' are like ...
hospitals, schools, fish,
whisky, natural energy
blah blah
The good folk in Scotland
have been drip-fed the
worst **** in history:
coated in chemicals
bath rinsed
molasses
spare car tyre
plastic
flotsam
***
seriously
No wonder -
Bammed (right up)
Givin it
Havin it
Lovin it
is why
bands & DJs
Love to Play:
'up for it'
'Hey MoJo's
share some of
that MTV love'
anything that's called
Council Hash
and accepted as the norm
reeks of class politics;
ah they won't mind
the **** end o that
they're the Scots
The Scottish Government
should embrace
a new Scotland
and the people in it
We want lots of things:
one of which is
better ****
Crime will drop:
- sniffing car tyres for a hit
- sales of Buckfast
will fund the entire
South East of England.
Scotland could lead the world
in upcycling as
Rizla fails to meet demand.
Our days would be so radically different;
auto flexi time
carbon neutral
trams with comfy seats
systematically
mathematically
go faster
than walking:
a mode of choice
I'd vote for that
...
Jul 30, 2013
Jul 30, 2013 at 8:34 PM UTC
I don't take sleeping pills
I drink a glass of wine
I smack my arm and fill my veins
just to pass the time
And then I'm rolling down the hills
and then I roll a joint
a smile is painted on my face
for a life without a point
I ****** by an empty fireplace
and she was cold and ill
she cried that she would catch her death
so I burnt my heating bill
I ring up all my women
write letters to my men
invite them all into my bed
then make them leave again
I go out every Saturday
for whiskey and motel *****
sometimes scotch and virgins
who weep when I give them up
When I'm dry on rizla leaves
I'll smoke Corinthians 4-7
because I don't know of any love
to get me into heaven
******* keeps me up at night
but I get off on pressure
soon I'll be back for my ***** queen
and my life of simple pleasure
Mar 24, 2015
Mar 24, 2015 at 6:08 PM UTC
Teatime done with
I went with Helen
across the bomb site
off Meadow Row
and crossed
the New Kent Road
to the ABC cinema
and along side
the dark alleys
dim lights
damp stink
she just behind me
clutching her doll
Battered Betty
by one arm
was that a rat?
she half said
and screamed
could be
I said
you see
them at night
down here
she clutched my arm
with her free hand
Battered Betty
swaying behind her
what we looking for?
she asked
cigarette ends
I said
why?
What do you
want them for?
she asked
make up a smoke
with Rizla *** papers
I said
you smoke
old tobacco?
she said
put it
in your mouth?
If I get
enough tobacco
sure
I said
looking around
the ground
yuk
she said
sometimes
I find dropped coins
I found a cuff link once
silver it was
but one
ain't much good
unless you're
a one armed man
I said
does your mum know
you smoke?
God no
I said
she has enough
to worry about
without me
adding to it
she frowned
clutched my arm tighter
well you shouldn't smoke
she said
you're only 9 like me
and I would never smoke
and our children
when we have them
won't smoke either
she said
she looked
at Battered Betty steely
I pushed her words
and images
out of my mind
for the moment
I saw a semi-smoked
Senior Service
on the ground
by the wall
and stooped
to pick it up
it's got lipstick on it
Helen said distastefully
it's has a woman's
spittle inside
I looked at her
disapproving gaze
and threw it away
yes you're right
I said
men's spittle's best
she frowned darkly
ok
I said
not really
I just jest
another time maybe
I thought
taking her deeper
into the dark
and rats
and damp stink
of drains
remembering it all
it sinking
into my
9 year brain.
Mar 18, 2014
Mar 18, 2014 at 6:41 AM UTC
Beasts feasting on prey... dishing on the words of Kings who wouldn’t fall to their knees and obey. I could almost hear their young play, as the mother watches with a haunted conscious of a young Fay. Come hither, and perhaps stretch your hands and catch a fire in a desired rizla, coz come winter, these words could be just as banned and burned by some sinner. A barefoot impaired but reaching for that stepping stone far from a mile, where manhood is shred but brothers keep breaching and stretching jail bars to a smile. Singing psalms of liberation in the blazing Sun of the plantations, stone-bashing patience and building railway stations never brought any justice or emancipation to the nation. Hence, Brothers found sense in taking a chance for the people, using pens from bribed fences illegal, and the library as a class for lessons of the Eagle. Unseen revolutionary pages and books smuggled through visitations, vice or versa... Brothers battered to solitary cages for sharing books of the struggle through imitations, Life of a hustler. Many of them died, because many others spied for the other side, despite loyalty. I guess with every Field Hero outside comes a yield ***** inside royalty. Retrospect, read and see what Malcolm reprimanded fallacy like the Big Six for, then introspect your creed and if you believe, welcome this reminded policy like the 46664...
Jul 29, 2014
Jul 29, 2014 at 3:57 AM UTC
The mess we leave,
We make our mark
Upon this place
Where we've been left.
The clatter the clutter,
The bits and bobs,
A crumbled leaf,
An empty box
Poured into all
These little things:
The passage of
Our life laid bare.
I have measured my life
In rizla packs and coffee cups,
Worn out soles and washing up;
Empty vessels filled by my touch
Transfigured, transformed
I watch them turn
Into players on a stage,
Into words on a page
But these objects have been touched before
In a life they lived, back when
Once they sang another's song
And soon they'll sing again
Unplanned symphonies composed
By the dragging of our toes
The soles of our feet
Are honest poets
Our footprints:
Their most sincere verse.
Dec 17, 2013
Dec 17, 2013 at 11:41 AM UTC
Heavy bearing the day in the city of distress,
getting back to my place, in my head there's a mess,
tough to go to sleep, so I stick to my flask,
close up a rizla and take care of my skunk.
Every one racing up - for their personal clap-clap,
running through busy streets with no time to ghasp,
pale and invisible - modern day ghost.
City of kebabs vs beans on toast.
Sunshine's not much more than a shadow from the past,
people puking on toga on a late night bus,
need the medicine - to stop living in a rush,
in this massive brain-washing our life's running past.
I remember the food, I remember the taste,
I remember the beach and I wanna reframe,
I remember the nature, I'm afraid I'll forget,
I remember my life but there's no time for that.
---
9-to-5 ghospel, first-world rap, call it that,
blues for who's got answers, money for the rich ****
I've no real complain, but it rains over my reason,
living in the city that's got only one season.
I need clearing up, fresh air from this prison,
needa breath something that don't smell like poison,
needa look outside at the end of the day,
and know that there is something beyond the grey.
Been staring for hours at an off-licence shelf,
browsing for nothing, maybe looking for myself,
lobotomised by the lifeless lights,
the only noise: the cars outside.
Nothing and everything - just floating around
a party on a boat, a rave underground,
the late night workers, the drop of a pound,
every night is the longest, every day passes by.
Lot of money goes wasted but nothing to buy,
This city is the woman that I'll never betray.
This city commands, you shut up and obey.
This city is the white, the black and the grey.
Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014 at 8:37 PM UTC
She rolls the paper
with a kind of ease:
like a silk dress falling
on the eve of her skin;
or the delicate sips
taken from her glass,
delicately held between
curled spread fingers.
Then maybe as tongue
presses to the lining,
it looks as though
rice-paper become lips
her kisses sealing
this tube filament
mantled in her smile,
lighting up the room.
Feb 18, 2014
Feb 18, 2014 at 11:56 PM UTC
Reflecting on directions taken
shadows floating in the glass
scribbling notes on Rizla paper
this like everything will pass.
Dec 25, 2013
Dec 25, 2013 at 3:03 PM UTC
rolling a tulip.
gone.
eyes soft. heads nod.
walls of alabaster layered cave
hazy bodies litter rave.
i am folded: foldin rizla blue
first a pocket by lick the glue.
toast some bensons
add in some resin.
filled and build over tube.
sweet trick, the petal, dude.
small tribe makes the ground
that the tulip travels around
Apr 21, 2016
Apr 21, 2016 at 4:56 AM UTC
She throws me a kiss like she's blowing out candles.
I smoke long into the night,
there's a party at Everley mansions,
tensions
recriminations
which we'll blame on the *****
She
flickers like lightning and strikes
I lick the Rizla and build
a new smoke,, looking
long into the candle light
waiting for the day.
Apr 18, 2016
Apr 18, 2016 at 4:33 PM UTC