I sent you a form, you sent it back, not enough paperwork, the wrong kind of tax. I send you a message,

Sit a while with me if you will Take the strain off your weary mind, you, have too much on your plate, wait, lets have tea and

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…

Silence but for the ebb and flow of echos in a stilling mind reaching for a pause

The first gasp of potent air taken in, shocks and awes innocence.

Speak softly in the night for shadows cast in these inverse… frost the flowers in the soul Do not allow phantom predatory circular thought…

Dress them in factory grey and shi… add a splash of colour to stop the… Introduce drip-fed thoughts and th… Teach them to ignore their mind an… Stay inside when it rains, cos it’…

Quiet is the whisper the first confess in an ear close to midnight when others are at rest A secret kiss in darkness

This morning’s focus is lost in my head This morning’s traffic made another one dead This morning’s talking points

Hurried by the wind, my mind races across impassible reaches to where you too are watching in shared solitude There is no torture

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.

Just don’t forget me, I’ll do anything, cover myself in jelly, If it’ll keep me on your telly. I won’t talk about babies in bunke…

Just a drop In the ocean Pretty pearl of glass Infinite reeling colours Inside

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