I am a young man stealing time and sunlight from the gods I am an old man refusing to pray or pay for more life I am a caged animal trying

One of my earliest memories as a toddler was a summer afternoon in the 1950’s....my mother sat me on her brother’s motorbike so she could take my picture to add to her collection of smi...

Trimming the wick of the giant can… the last lighthouse keeper rides t… climbing out onto the ledge he exh… as the cruel green sea beckons lik… one step away from eternity he hes…

Charles Bukowski, Dylan Thomas,… poets with sturdy legs to walk the… way down yonder at the bottom of P… Pacing the street to put the beat… poets who bled ink

Drip, drip, drip says the stand-pi… in the shanty town as the young mothers gather round plastic containers on the ground listening to the drip, drip, drip

In 1969 when I was 15 or so I cashed my scipt in every day at Boots 24hr pharmacy in Piccadilly Circus for the then legal Diamorphine Sulphate... saw Burroughs in the 3am queue once and...

There’s nowt round here but wasted… two or more pushchairs constitutes… “no-one smiles”, the badge of indi… the most used queue is the one for… TOKENS

My name is terrible unto the heath… I am my Mothers son My name is earthquake, fire and th… I bring the love of ONE My name is global warming, plague…

the night is full of pale blue, glowing mushrooms. An undulating carpet of bioluminescence, a Persian rug of tiny votive parasols, communing with the infinite other. Both between and ov...

I met a man who could recite all t… of the “Romance of the Rose” but… I met a man who could recite PI to one thousand decimal points but could not find a rhyme

Give me lungs of the wind and the… Give me blood of the torrent and… Give me five stupid question witho… Give me gifts of compassion and f… I’ll give the breath from these lu…

She walked down the street carrying her misgivings in a croch… in silk culottes she strode with the determination of the delu… her heels tapping out morse messag…

Riding through the night on my thr… Green light dancing in the land of… One eye closed and one wise open Runewise led and mantras spoken Over hills and through the valleys

There’s an outlaw hiding-out insid… He waits in ambush, till I think… Then swift as lightning on the dar… He’s right beside me, putting out… Yeah there’s a desperado deep insi…

As I stand here today...... Bone of my bones, blood of my bloo… Man, son of woman, long before flo… Long before Bible, Torah, Koran Long before war, long before man