To Mrs Moonlight x
(2014)
World cup anyone?
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
And to the next debarkle, Thunder gone minds, Sparkle, in the breeze of this midweek nigh… Nothing special to say,
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…
There, in glistening half-light a spider feels the dawn languid flies forget they’re born life loses a fight A newly unfurled a petal
Damn and blast and house arrest Before the lungs fail Ring-a-ring-a-roses No playing kids Blind-eye playground test
Hurried by the wind, my mind races across impassible reaches to where you too are watching in shared solitude There is no torture
Life rolls, in the sway, the ebb and flow of all matter Every pebble treasure is from the… Who cares?! One time
I sent you a form, you sent it back, not enough paperwork, the wrong kind of tax. I send you a message,
Life This dot to dot beeb-bop melee of mish-mashed memories
Vanquished, the night slides from… those cruel games over. In the thin sliver of winter warm this unkempt heir rose, clung close by the odour of night-…
There was a dandy from Whittling who ate 3,000 peas in one sitting He finished and said “oh Dear” what a terrible idea and forever and a day he’s been si…
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
The first time I entered you, You did not embrace me, Stone cold hearted made me feel cold and me and my money, parted.
A raucous laugh on a cigarette gus… A petal falling between the cracks… Playground bottles high as kites, What kids we’ve become. Doing time in the cells of mind,