To Mrs Moonlight x
(2014)
World cup anyone?
Toys of war bought willingly by those who wish to be part of something
Stop being so still inanimate objects move to my will
In a flash the whole beach lashed, laughed, as another siren painted… sky blue skin competing dashed to the submarine cold Hot little beach rocket bodies
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…
This morning’s focus is lost in my head This morning’s traffic made another one dead This morning’s talking points
Damn and blast and house arrest Before the lungs fail Ring-a-ring-a-roses No playing kids Blind-eye playground test
The first gasp of potent air taken in, shocks and awes innocence.
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,
Striding with purpose I pass the perfume “No thanks” past glitter doll eyes and boxes to die for
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
Silence but for the ebb and flow of echos in a stilling mind reaching for a pause
This women is the ocean, this women is the sea this women whose wobbles mean so much to me We could sail away forever
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’…
Took a ride out to the hill family of five tightly coiled shoehorned in a car late this song no this one
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-…