(2015)
Silence but for the ebb and flow of echos in a stilling mind reaching for a pause
All this talk, this chatter, this… back scratching, arse scratching v… bitching, territory marking, point… people boring, tit for tat, straig… out of touch, poker faced
Let the children sleep, so the world is eroded before our eyes alone by the anger, famine, bomb and war… of the bean-counting machines.
This morning’s focus is lost in my head This morning’s traffic made another one dead This morning’s talking points
Oh the grand of Duke of York, he had ten thousand men, he sent them out to fight on a hil… while he sat back drinking gin. And when they were happy they were…
I am inside by the window Outside it is snowing the dormant grass pales as the icy… of a million frozen raindrops attempt their silent smothering.
To the ends of the Earth where the lava hits the air raw-earthly habitats To light the night
Just a drop In the ocean Pretty pearl of glass Infinite reeling colours Inside
Toys of war bought willingly by those who wish to be part of something
I danced in the city when the day… I danced around the throngs and wo… I wondered what it was that had su… that I joined a queue from a new d… Spend then, wherever you may be
This women is the ocean, this women is the sea this women whose wobbles mean so much to me We could sail away forever
It was a changing time the moon was high in your hair I didn’t know you then didn’t know the things you’d becom… and then we took our chance
The page was waiting like the dark liquid poured itself luminous in the night-time dim orange shed, orange head full of unburnt connections
I sailed away to cast my fate, on the shores of Catalina, but after toiling thousands of mil… I find the grass is much less gree… All the wine in wine country,
“All aboard”, the Captain cries music to my ears Up the fog soaked ramp the ocean mist already claims me into the wooden creaks