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"tenner" poems
Thin and crispy, round and flat A staple of the proletariat Two for a tenner It makes you wonder And delivered to your door on the back of a Honda.
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May 9, 2015
May 9, 2015 at 11:32 AM UTC
Pizza
Sunk in my armchairI stare from the gloomThe never-ending soundOf cars that drift onWith minds on the roadAnd eyes straight aheadCash register for mileageChing ching in their head-If stripped of the clothingAre we all just the sameWe want to be themTo be part of this gameAnd the cars that drift onWith their badges of wealthThese tokens of greatnessMuch better than mine-Once I was partOf this greed that we wantBut now I am nothingSomeone that just hopesMy boys birthdays comingHow much would it costTo bring smiles to his faceWithout knowing the lossYet who will sufferAs my daughter is nextAnd kids have no boundariesWhen friends have the best-And people with moneyNow scorn on my lifeTo some I’m a scroungerWhilst dodging tax with their perksThose LLP peopleWho employ mystery wivesAnd lie on their tax billsTo hoard cash for their lives-A tenner for cleaningAn old boys flatBuys cake for my kidsAs a one off treatYet who is more guiltyOf conning the stateAs I sit in my armchairAnd cars drive on past
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Feb 27, 2010
Feb 27, 2010 at 11:31 PM UTC
Cars (How the Financial Hardships of Unemployment affects You)
Bridget the ****** the dwarf who loves ******* Bridget the ****** she comes when she's ******* She'll open her short legs for a tenner or so, and if you pay less she'll still have a go. She loves a good ******* both active and passive; Believe me, her botty -hole is quite massive. Bridget's a goer, always ready for more; She's a fat ugly ****** and a little fat *****
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May 17, 2015
May 17, 2015 at 7:38 AM UTC
Bridget the ******
Words…..because words are all I have……..:) Edgar endearments generosity incantatory new sagacity surprise heresy dissipation violating abyss language warning culminates dalack obdurate serving waiter ossuary occurrences tortured beware silence calm bow physiognomy paucity occurrence exegeses transmogrification effectuation Adjunctive dairy tenure contention tenner reins happy indomitable, connoisseur artifice concatenation vivacity voluptuous solemnity enigmatic burdened glorious line huge……………………some I made myself…..:) Edgar
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Nov 2, 2012
Nov 2, 2012 at 4:07 PM UTC
Words
I want to win the lotto I want to win some dosh I'm fed up of no money I want to win the lot I do all of me numbers each and every week I'm lucky if a tenner comes falling at me feet they say its one in lots and lots but I don't really care cos all i want to say to you is I'm a millionaire been saying this for so long now my mates think I'm all mad this time its gonna be my night... I am the lucky lad so when you see some flash new car go zipping by your eyes you'll know the person in it its me with fortune pie Ill share all of my wealth with friends and family from afar a charity so close to me a tear that breaks my heart a set up for a life of good and free of bills to pay a golden ticket full of dreams today that is my day
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May 8, 2012
May 8, 2012 at 3:48 PM UTC
Lotto
I’m Oxfam clothed and head full of henna, he’s Age Concern dressed for less than a tenner. Does this make us rivals or more compatible? Anything’s possible now I’m out of hospital, picking his path oblivious to obstacles, catching him in an unguarded interval; he’s too hospitable to swerve my tentacles and I too intent on the prey. “What’s with the titfer?” I bubble up giggly, kissing his cheek and trying his trilby, holding his eyes – why should I feel guilty? If he’ll play Jesus lurking in Gethsemane then I’ll be Judas flirting with the enemy. Don’t say betrayal and the double agent, I’m just a female at my play station. He used to be nurse and I the patient, now we negotiate new relations. Aspiring to more of an equal footing I’ve climbed too high and abandoned hoodies, the dreary woollies, sackcloth and ashes, the words that stuck to my tongue like glue. Between heavy make-up and credit crashes I talk too naughty and hug too warmly – he must take his turn to be poorly, his turn to breathe in blue. In minutes the mood will be mellowing: I shall saxophone and cello him and proffer the charms of poor scarred arms, the burnt flesh of thighs and ******* this sin within my second-hand dress to caress his heart and capture him. Wind and string go enrapturing! Pull him close to the edge of the abyss – I want him to hang on my lips as I’ve hung so long on his.
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Mar 16, 2016
Mar 16, 2016 at 12:39 PM UTC
Henna
Maybe there are other people like us, scraping £2.50 to get the night bus. Requiring time, but never a sign of love lost. So when I wake up, I look for the nearest shake up. Wiping off your girlfriends make up, because nothing will ever stop us. Sending penetrating shivers, an ecstasy like gold rush. Back to sipping Hennessey, making the girls blush but there ain’t no fuss, ‘coz the girls lost coming at a big cost, as I plan the beginning the end and sub-plot. Daym this girls hot but she don’t like *** if I don’t deliver man get shot. Left 6ft under to rot, while my babies crying in her cot, something the government planned, straight to the source of another blood clot. Unbelievable feeling’s that came from us, but nothing was going to stop that bus so don’t cause a fuss, head up and believe in trust. If you could see me now, then you’d understand two bags short of tenner, another pocket with ten grand. Thinking about street corners, the place where it started, going way back now, before my mother departed. Family distraught, the horizon broken hearted. Taking into account, the past and what’s it done, I must face the consequences and what’s ahead to come. It isn’t going to be fun, but I can’t turn and run, believe in fate so the future doesn’t appear glum. Then we call a peace treaty, and lay down our gun.
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Apr 5, 2012
Apr 5, 2012 at 5:19 AM UTC
People Like Us
I remember walking back from school the tenner for the bus ride in my pocket There would be a row over why I had taken so long But I'd gulp the sondesh down, and it'd be forgotten The grey haired proprietor of the sweetmeat store wore a perennial smile on his face And sometimes I wondered if he had ever been sad How could he with those sweets on his silver trays? I learned to grasp the concept of gravity when a piece of sweetmeat went down my throat And then a lesson on quick mathematics when the shopkeeper stretched his palm for what I owed But sadly the chemistry book had no formula for me to turn sugar and milk to that special treat The report card was skewed, and the scolding that ensued Was only remediated by my favourite sweet
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Jul 23, 2019
Jul 23, 2019 at 1:56 PM UTC
Sweets
1.  Understand Weather. (Strangers on a bench, Looking up.) “Cirrus, I think. Cirrocumulus?” “Stratus surely. Or altocumulus.” (You must also hate the cold And the sun, And always wish the current season Was a different one.) 2. Never Be Honest About Stuff That Hurts. Pain so bad Can’t even **** – “How are you, Arthur?” “Brilliant, thanks!” 3. Have An Opinion On These People Katie Price (Feminist? Witch?) Kate Moss (Goddess? ***** Stephen Fry (Snob? Wilde?) Frankie Boyle (Offensive? Mild?) 4. Never Talk About Money. “So.” An American asks. “How much do ya make?” “I…I…Oh My God look at that dog over there that has a face like a pancake!” 5. Learn How To Apply The Class System To Cigarettes. Pipe – Monty Withnail Silk Cut – Comfortably Middle. Lucky Strikes – Probably not British. B&H; – Shops at Lidl. 6. Secretly (Or Openly) Enjoy The Royal Family “So, did you hear what they called the baby?” My boyfriend shrugs and says - “I don’t give one tiny **** “They named him George. Isn’t that twee?” “Aw ******* hell, I had a tenner on Louis!” 7. Hey Jude. If all else fails, At the end of the night, Sing na-na-na And it’ll be alright. 8. Never Complain About Your Meal “Hm. These mussels look a bit suspect.” “How’s your meal, Sir?” “Perfect!” 9. Always Hate The French, (Even If Your Own Mother Is French) Numberplate 'F' On an articulated lorry. “Stuck up…onion…bastards.” (I’m sorry mum, I’m so sorry!) 10. ‘Jerusalem’ Mime a sword in your hand, Bang your chest with devotion, Wave the sword about, Sing with emotion.
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Sep 27, 2013
Sep 27, 2013 at 10:35 AM UTC
How To Be A Certain Kind Of English (Ten Easy Steps)
1.  Understand Weather. (Strangers on a bench, Looking up.) “Cirrus, I think. Cirrocumulus?” “Stratus surely. Or altocumulus.” (You must also hate the cold And the sun, And always wish the current season Was a different one.) 2. Never Be Honest About Stuff That Hurts. Pain so bad Can’t even **** – “How are you, Arthur?” “Brilliant, thanks!” 3. Have An Opinion On These People Katie Price (Feminist? Witch?) Kate Moss (Goddess? ***** Stephen Fry (Snob? Wilde?) Frankie Boyle (Offensive? Mild?) 4. Never Talk About Money. “So.” An American asks. “How much do ya make?” “I…I…Oh My God look at that dog over there that has a face like a pancake!” 5. Learn How To Apply The Class System To Cigarettes. Pipe – Monty Withnail Silk Cut – Comfortably Middle. Lucky Strikes – Probably not British. B&H; – Shops at Lidl. 6. Secretly (Or Openly) Enjoy The Royal Family “So, did you hear what they called the baby?” My boyfriend shrugs and says - “I don’t give one tiny **** “They named him George. Isn’t that twee?” “Aw ******* hell, I had a tenner on Louis!” 7. Hey Jude. If all else fails, At the end of the night, Sing na-na-na And it’ll be alright. 8. Never Complain About Your Meal “Hm. These mussels look a bit suspect.” “How’s your meal, Sir?” “Perfect!” 9. Always Hate The French, (Even If Your Own Mother Is French) Numberplate 'F' On an articulated lorry. “Stuck up…onion…bastards.” (I’m sorry mum, I’m so sorry!) 10. ‘Jerusalem’ Mime a sword in your hand, Bang your chest with devotion, Wave the sword about, Sing with emotion.
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Rubber soled trainers broke the brick Like the boom of the people tether the streets Tight strapped caps wander and roam Strolling the daylight for a place of their own Screeching and whirring filling the room Monoxide smog frogs that cling to their moulds We the people; hardened in soul A splash in the distance tearing a hole Enoch and Edna turn in their grave Darkened cobble flattened; all glazed Mirrors and cladding click into place A village that weeps, constant refined Express the formidable now done and alone Never your own EST marks the alleys; so nuanced, so cool If you knew the truth; that's a tenner! You fool
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Jun 7, 2020
Jun 7, 2020 at 5:18 AM UTC
Bulldozer
How to make friends over a beer How to make any modest room beautiful with fairy lights How to consecutively loose three university ID cards, replace them and then simultaneously find all three misplaced cards in the bottom of the same bag. How to blag your way onto the university bus without ID How to make a family out of your friends When to give constructive criticism. When to hit the cafeteria for discounted lunch items When to let house mates off for making the kitchen a **** tip When to realise that the reason your soreen cake keeps going missing from you food cupboard is not in fact because there are some soreen cake loving mice, it is in fact just your house mate who “just thought you weren’t going to eat it” When to plant an onion in hopes of an onion tree. Where to kick a corrugated door for a taxi Where to get the best tray of jalapeños Where to get a magic tenner Where to sit in the lecture hall so you could only be partially seen Where to find your confidence Knowing I’ll never be able to pay off my university debt But knowing it was priceless
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Feb 24, 2021
Feb 24, 2021 at 5:05 AM UTC
Things I Learn’t at University
that bankroll of notes changing train pistons into traffic cones and brief loves into marriages with the motherly continues, but ended up, just being, a roll of toilet paper that could buy you **** for ink or ink for a bestseller that ended up a door stump for a housed breeze. but she loved it, she took the story of pristine eden and her the satan like a camcorder with selfies readied into recycling a pretty face that everyone wanted to fudge into snorkel in a sea of gag white; so i took to the monk ape for inspiration for levitation and i rooted into a child being the: bullied anorexic lexicon, the all rounded a* tenner for a teenager housebound into being schooled for a grey of officiated scrubbing of papers into business. i loved it, i had my midlife crisis without a harley and i faked myself as a dodo fearing man’s fear of death more than the unexpected extinction of my fellow species, which i took to be fearless. so once i experienced caesar’s love of spontaneity and death, the last two things i feared were homelessness and a prolonged state of dying utilising morphine from april till june, that’s why i never changed surgery, never wanted to check the cholesterol or blood pressure acting like a virus i asked to attack my heart with marginalised debriefings - if i prayed for the herz blitzkrieg right i also got a heartbeat prior.
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Oct 1, 2015
Oct 1, 2015 at 8:59 PM UTC
herz bltizkrieg
A flower girl tried to sell me a flower picked from my own garden a thin starving guttersnipe dressed so dour my seldom emphatic heart granted my pardon I gave her a tenner for the red rose and told her to "keep the change" she, now the subject of my next poetic prose about the girl who makes my heart feel strange
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Oct 2, 2018
Oct 2, 2018 at 3:14 PM UTC
Flower Girl
i might be cruel at times, but one thing is for sure: truth always is, esp. when drinking. i find the concept of the "rhetorical" question slightly bewildering,   it's simple enough - whenever a "rhetorical" question is asked you rarely hear a counter -     the person asking the "rhetorical" question in all instances continues the "conversation" - by a rhetorical question i'm sure the implication states (as asked): that i invite you into the discussion - and, from what i've heard or seen, that's rarely the case!     why ask a rhetorical question when only the rhetorician asking the question is the only person answering it?   the smug punctuation mark and cliche that a "rhetorical" question has become is just that, a semicolon in a monologue...      how about asking a solipsistic question? you know, pierce the membrane, get someone out of their head, out of the pronoun hemisphere - and into: hey, john, what's your take on it? to ask a persuading question to later add that it is a "persuading" question, does not really invoke a persuasive counter answer - this entire "rhetorical" question is a pompous double-under-cut against dialectical fluidity - fuck's sake, people had to found debating societies to speak in godot's terms,   and as ever, a man in his 30s and a man in his 70s, and a park bench, is all it takes to be civil...     obviously the 30s man asking permission of the 70s man if he can continue drinking his beer and smoking a cigarette. rhetorical my ***    just say it plainly: it's not a question, it's a self-empowering answer -                 to continue the monologue - there is no such thing as a "rhetorical" question, simply because once the "question" is asked, it's swept under the carpet - because whenever a rhetorical "question" is asked, it's embedded in a quick-answer dynamic of the person making such a bogus request... no one has ever answered a "rhetorical" question, simply because the only person who can answer such a question, is the rhetorician himself... codswallop... that's what it is...      it's also called the barometer tactic of checking if you're insane, when you talk to yourself when you're alone...                               hazelnuts 'n' all... by the way... you want to stage a horror movie scene? have a drink, no, have lots of drinks, drink the whole **** bottle of wine... but! but...                      have a mirror in front of you - nothing shows as much truth as a drunk narcissus -                then again, if it was a puddle of ***** do you think he would have fallen in love with his visage?   like any mug of a man after five pints and six shots later: she was a 4 when i began, but now? she's a tenner, an alsatian stunner! oh right, they always say: it's not a rhetorical question... so?    it's not really a question at all,                                                              is it? it's a self-serving answer...     and that always seemed to bother me,    why ask a question you already know    the answer to? oh, right: to gain rhetorical momentum, and double-up on hushing the oppositional argument.
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Sep 22, 2017
Sep 22, 2017 at 11:26 AM UTC
the rhetorical "question"
i might be cruel at times, but one thing is for sure: truth always is, esp. when drinking. i find the concept of the "rhetorical" question slightly bewildering,   it's simple enough - whenever a "rhetorical" question is asked you rarely hear a counter -     the person asking the "rhetorical" question in all instances continues the "conversation" - by a rhetorical question i'm sure the implication states (as asked): that i invite you into the discussion - and, from what i've heard or seen, that's rarely the case!     why ask a rhetorical question when only the rhetorician asking the question is the only person answering it?   the smug punctuation mark and cliche that a "rhetorical" question has become is just that, a semicolon in a monologue...      how about asking a solipsistic question? you know, pierce the membrane, get someone out of their head, out of the pronoun hemisphere - and into: hey, john, what's your take on it? to ask a persuading question to later add that it is a "persuading" question, does not really invoke a persuasive counter answer - this entire "rhetorical" question is a pompous double-under-cut against dialectical fluidity - fuck's sake, people had to found debating societies to speak in godot's terms,   and as ever, a man in his 30s and a man in his 70s, and a park bench, is all it takes to be civil...     obviously the 30s man asking permission of the 70s man if he can continue drinking his beer and smoking a cigarette. rhetorical my ***    just say it plainly: it's not a question, it's a self-empowering answer -                 to continue the monologue - there is no such thing as a "rhetorical" question, simply because once the "question" is asked, it's swept under the carpet - because whenever a rhetorical "question" is asked, it's embedded in a quick-answer dynamic of the person making such a bogus request... no one has ever answered a "rhetorical" question, simply because the only person who can answer such a question, is the rhetorician himself... codswallop... that's what it is...      it's also called the barometer tactic of checking if you're insane, when you talk to yourself when you're alone...                               hazelnuts 'n' all... by the way... you want to stage a horror movie scene? have a drink, no, have lots of drinks, drink the whole **** bottle of wine... but! but...                      have a mirror in front of you - nothing shows as much truth as a drunk narcissus -                then again, if it was a puddle of ***** do you think he would have fallen in love with his visage?   like any mug of a man after five pints and six shots later: she was a 4 when i began, but now? she's a tenner, an alsatian stunner! oh right, they always say: it's not a rhetorical question... so?    it's not really a question at all,                                                              is it? it's a self-serving answer...     and that always seemed to bother me,    why ask a question you already know    the answer to? oh, right: to gain rhetorical momentum, and double-up on hushing the oppositional argument.
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Take the pavement into town, over bridges, galleries and pain exhibits. Sip beer on your own; a bottle into the half glass, before sinking into that spectator's chair. Slip a tenner to the homeless man. You don't know why, but his face felt like wisdom. You take off your jacket in the sun, beneath the underpass as notebooks pound together in your black messenger bag. Take a fantasy to heart, collect images of her and her soft music. Allow the melodies their art. Their art of fogging reality, of allowing one to appear as they are not. Keep you thoughts on the banister, safe from the fall of pleading into old dreams. Wilt before the kaleidoscope of all adopted memories, the time you bathed Christ beside Olympus Mons. Ride the ghost train to the present, past the infidels and terrorists of truth. Never fear that fear of consequence, of tomorrows lived in yesterdays, of appreciating life, yet forgetting to live.
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May 30, 2014
May 30, 2014 at 10:50 AM UTC
Don't Forget To Live
Im dressed in rags but I'm made of riches, promise I'm the insurance man, a timetabler Wake me from my slumber, I'll give you a tenner, doctor, mother, Double pain relief, those blasted tablets ****** liqueur sent me to sleep. Chemically numbing, My dad's never hugged me you know Old time copper threw me In the lock-up for stealing liquor. I'm the self fulling prophecy Hoping for childish deliverance Some like it hot I like it cold like a copper coin dropped into my pocket.
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Sep 19, 2018
Sep 19, 2018 at 10:20 PM UTC
Bonaparte
O’ world curious traveller, Atop the Millenium bridge, I know St Paul’s is so beautiful, But try and keep an eye on your kids. O’ delicious corona, You look so divine, I’ll admit. But why are you a whole ******* tenner?! Are these guys all taking the **** O’ lost Northern bumbler, Trying ‘down saaaaaath’ for a bit, Stop standing to the left of the escalator, You're destroying the system you ***** O’ impatient young cycler, Dressed in tight lycra and **** You’re going to try and squeeze through those buses? You’re a ******** for thinking you’ll fit. O’ excited tube takers, Your theatrical energy is lit, But please stop singing in unison, All should be silent this trip. To live in this concrete jungle, You’ll pay extortionate rent for a pit, But at least you’ll be living the high-life, Oh wait? I’m poor. And depressed.
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Aug 12, 2019
Aug 12, 2019 at 4:01 PM UTC
London
The year. 1562. The place. Fort. Caroline. , We. Have found in the Americas. a dry herb With cane and earthen cup , they smoke it through the cane thereof . September. 2016 . Dear. Doctor. , I. Think I'm. a. chimney. , my lungs stacked high with bricks, With N H S. guide lines  full of ***** tricks. . Weened from inside my mothers womb , the sweet smell of nicotine my mothers. Perfume . How it smelt from inside my Pram  mother and I went a. Shopping . Then from the back of our car , as we drove far , that. Smell with Windows. ajar. , from the back of our car . How I. Looked up to. Father. , When we went to the shops , *** in hand ,   One day  I'll  be a man , With *** in hand like he . Hanging outside Londis , talking to strangers. , A. Packet. For a. Tenner for me ? Dear. Doctor.                       I. Think. I'm. a. Steam train , Cough. Phlegm , Cough. Phlegm. , Cough. Phlegm , Cough.  Phlegm . ........... Now I. Have my N H S. Bed. With family all around , My  C O J D. breathing ap at my side . My. Coughing  a. Coffin  now , I'm. Early for my funeral Friends and  family. all. around . ". he liked his Cigarettes. " ". Long time dead Could have been knocked down by a bus " they said . Coughing. , coughing , coffin .   ,
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Sep 3, 2016
Sep 3, 2016 at 7:38 AM UTC
From cradle to the grave .
it's only ever sensible to point out classism for the english... given the hierarchy of... genesis: crown... it's not like there was ever an arrived at cromwellian republicanism... ever! there's a need to posit: a shadow is an extension of the body... best visible come noon... the shadow is never an invitation to replace the body... beside there being a noon... but i like the idea... for all the superiority of sensible ideas: that are never a ******* light-bulb... when england came across india: it didn't conquer it... it merely... reinvented itself... and brought back a taste for curry for the plebs... sowwy... towing what's most honestly twoo... then again... without a(n) ego-crown... h'american tabloid press "republicanism"... i don't know which is worse... i still best flip a coin that has lizzy's itchy nose on the base of: counter corruptions... such that the popes have met their: post-scriptum... i promised myself this... i'll commit myself... to ol' susie lo'... if... and only if and only when... ol' lizzie has done the sinker! then! when i'll... pay for ***** and giggles with a tenner that 'as 'er son's visage... detailing... how best to arrive at ****** and i will sing! god save! our! king! i must say: muttered best: quiff of blonde... herr schtrap! and kooning 'arlie! yes... best come across the knee... and tooth biting sand... sort of... grit!
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Oct 11, 2020
Oct 11, 2020 at 7:01 PM UTC
england no england
she's bought a lovely little number from an established high street store no thoughts for Bangladesh sweat shops were children work hard to be poor she knows she's going to look gorgeous it's got a slit right down the back shows the tattoos on her shoulders and her **** are going to look stacked she bought some new hair extensions that clip in and really look real with some false nails from the pound shop no one's going to know the real deal just value beans in the cupboard and her kids feral in the street with her spice addict brother on board McDonalds on Friday's a treat with a little blue pill from Bill a proper night for a tenner although last week it made her ill this week it's going to be better she's got a plan to get sorted pull the dealer from the estate once a few lines have been snorted she'll do him at a discount rate should make enough for her eldest to buy that snide iPhone she needs so that she can send her a text when she needs to score her some **** probably on Sunday morning when she needs to just ******* chill cause the comedown's really hurting from Friday night's little blue pill
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Feb 12, 2018
Feb 12, 2018 at 5:48 AM UTC
Pry marks on Cinderella's ******
*i'm back to drinking that milky absinthe of Turkey, another night and i'll **** a ******* keyhole with my eye.* after nearing a 36 hour stretch of being fully awake, is the serotonin in my brain became caffeine, i figure, if i managed this diet alcohol free and push the limits to, say, 52 hours, through my brain's lack recuperation, i could suffer one last major lie in on the electric bed and be happily gone, even physical labour doesn't allow be being tired, stuffing my stomach to ensure the blood flow went to the gut... that giant star moving in the night yesterday above my house didn't help either - maybe that's why i left studying science, after all the major discoveries, scientists became a bit like priests, so entrenched in their beliefs, artists can theorise, sure, but they rarely make things dogmatic, take for example Frank O'Hara's manifesto concerning Personism, the dogmatic in art doesn't come from artists, hardly a single impressionist could allow themselves a sticker with: hello, my name is MONET... champagne and canapés, artists don't bother defining themselves by movements... it's the rich girls & boys who do that, incapable to stomach the truth, the bourgeoisie reality (proto-Marxism, borrowing money, eh?), they can't become artists they become critics, they're the one ones distributing the 'hello, my name is' stickers for everyone to stick onto themselves, sure they provide the money - the really rich? ha ha... the fifth earl of Shropshire hangs the first earl of Shropshire on his wall... like in Buckingham palace Queen Elizabeth said of Francis Backon's artwork: oh that horrid man painting those horrendous monstrosities of metaphysical plastic surgeries? the really rich deal with hereditary art, things passed down, priceless artefacts, which would hardly fetch £100 million at an auction house like Sotheby's, believe me... they might get a tenner at best.
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May 27, 2016
May 27, 2016 at 4:09 PM UTC
Alternative Days (no. 2, c)
*i'm back to drinking that milky absinthe of Turkey, another night and i'll **** a ******* keyhole with my eye.* after nearing a 36 hour stretch of being fully awake, is the serotonin in my brain became caffeine, i figure, if i managed this diet alcohol free and push the limits to, say, 52 hours, through my brain's lack recuperation, i could suffer one last major lie in on the electric bed and be happily gone, even physical labour doesn't allow be being tired, stuffing my stomach to ensure the blood flow went to the gut... that giant star moving in the night yesterday above my house didn't help either - maybe that's why i left studying science, after all the major discoveries, scientists became a bit like priests, so entrenched in their beliefs, artists can theorise, sure, but they rarely make things dogmatic, take for example Frank O'Hara's manifesto concerning Personism, the dogmatic in art doesn't come from artists, hardly a single impressionist could allow themselves a sticker with: hello, my name is MONET... champagne and canapés, artists don't bother defining themselves by movements... it's the rich girls & boys who do that, incapable to stomach the truth, the bourgeoisie reality (proto-Marxism, borrowing money, eh?), they can't become artists they become critics, they're the one ones distributing the 'hello, my name is' stickers for everyone to stick onto themselves, sure they provide the money - the really rich? ha ha... the fifth earl of Shropshire hangs the first earl of Shropshire on his wall... like in Buckingham palace Queen Elizabeth said of Francis Backon's artwork: oh that horrid man painting those horrendous monstrosities of metaphysical plastic surgeries? the really rich deal with hereditary art, things passed down, priceless artefacts, which would hardly fetch £100 million at an auction house like Sotheby's, believe me... they might get a tenner at best.
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- Can't work out whose this is. - I don't know either. But if it's yours.. Dinner's on you.
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Aug 2, 2017
Aug 2, 2017 at 10:28 AM UTC
Tenner
It's been a while, so off-the-cuff with my sweet remarks for the coffee rings on the mantelpiece- how it symbolises entropy; the debris of living entities, the **** at the bottom of everything. In reality I'm too lazy to clean, too obsessed with my lack of legacy to notice the dust that collects from old memories; skin particles from parties long-gone, all those fast friends in the mirror, sharing a tenner across the kitchen floor. The Drug took hold of me from where love had left off, throttling me with its day-to-day panic through my most tired routines, the pillow-talk white-noise, the anti-substance regime. And now I'm tired of you, you who I get high for, you who brings me to steady lows, a subtle submission only I can witness, and only I can bleed out. The Drug took hold of me because you didn't; because everyone let go once I found a job, once the money came in, once my clothes weren't torn anymore. They thought I was reborn. A sober sunrise, a cigarette at dawn, slipping into the shower, slipping into that professional smile; the bright whites of the working day- I have learned to write and to cry in the tears of a crocodile. A man becomes a calamity without a woman, or at least a love that loves in return. I have grown soft in my bleak recovery, waiting in the trash of my poetic failures, no longer looking for those angry words, no longer hoping to see the city come to burn.
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May 19, 2015
May 19, 2015 at 6:02 PM UTC
Growing Soft (DRAFT)
There’s a man off his chops selling tough for a tenner But the mercury drops in his ugly temper And gets lost under Victorian modesty When faced with their war on fallopian sovereignty Girl wears her mother’s mittens for earmuffs Until they’re far enough upwind “See they’re paraphrasing Jesus dear-but I’m not so sure that’s what He meant”!
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Nov 17, 2017
Nov 17, 2017 at 5:29 PM UTC
Victorian Modesty
Don’t need my ‘full English’ served On a giant rectangular slab Don’t need a dressed salad garnish With my bacon, sausage and egg Don’t need vine-on cherry tomatoes Give me canned ones in juice instead And though I’ve scoured this ridiculous slab Can I **** find a slice of fried bread?! And where is my builder’s tea? English breakfast or Earl Grey’s the choice But cutlery won’t stand up in either I want Tetley’s, nowt else will suffice Oh, what has happened To the greasy spoon? This ‘N8 Brunch’ Is loony tunes 10 of my squid For two brittle half rashers That crumble to dust When faced with my gnashers One measly egg Yet a goblet of beans Presented as if made Of priceless things Resplendent on said slab In a vessel all of their own Yet still I detest these things And deign to leave them alone And every cuppa you have Costs an additional fee No bottomless beverages here No meal deal where your tipple is free This wasn’t always the case But gentrification is setting in Prices soar, pretension is rife Poshification of everything I love London toon Particularly Crouch End But I’m northern at heart And it drives me round the bend When I’m being ripped off Taken for a ride Fleeced and shafted Hung out and dried If I pop down the road To N22 A tenner will buy Double the amount of food Might not look as pretty Might not be as ‘posh’ But at least it’s value for money Not like detonating your dosh Middey’s by name ****** by nature The tiniest of fry ups Leaves me cold by temperature A sprinkling of rocket Is an utter abomination On a British institution I can’t afford at this rate of inflation So b***ocks to the balsamic You sprinkled on those leaves That didn’t belong there in the first place Desist in future, please! Dispense with the vegetation The slab that should be a plate And reinstate the greasy spoon In my beautiful N8.
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Aug 9, 2018
Aug 9, 2018 at 2:45 PM UTC
Not Quite Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Don’t need my ‘full English’ served On a giant rectangular slab Don’t need a dressed salad garnish With my bacon, sausage and egg Don’t need vine-on cherry tomatoes Give me canned ones in juice instead And though I’ve scoured this ridiculous slab Can I **** find a slice of fried bread?! And where is my builder’s tea? English breakfast or Earl Grey’s the choice But cutlery won’t stand up in either I want Tetley’s, nowt else will suffice Oh, what has happened To the greasy spoon? This ‘N8 Brunch’ Is loony tunes 10 of my squid For two brittle half rashers That crumble to dust When faced with my gnashers One measly egg Yet a goblet of beans Presented as if made Of priceless things Resplendent on said slab In a vessel all of their own Yet still I detest these things And deign to leave them alone And every cuppa you have Costs an additional fee No bottomless beverages here No meal deal where your tipple is free This wasn’t always the case But gentrification is setting in Prices soar, pretension is rife Poshification of everything I love London toon Particularly Crouch End But I’m northern at heart And it drives me round the bend When I’m being ripped off Taken for a ride Fleeced and shafted Hung out and dried If I pop down the road To N22 A tenner will buy Double the amount of food Might not look as pretty Might not be as ‘posh’ But at least it’s value for money Not like detonating your dosh Middey’s by name ****** by nature The tiniest of fry ups Leaves me cold by temperature A sprinkling of rocket Is an utter abomination On a British institution I can’t afford at this rate of inflation So b***ocks to the balsamic You sprinkled on those leaves That didn’t belong there in the first place Desist in future, please! Dispense with the vegetation The slab that should be a plate And reinstate the greasy spoon In my beautiful N8.
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