erratically

erratically

bad dream erratically 

they were chasing Zelensky in his little car

he had been stabbed in the back

and the car was filling up with water

he also had a small blood-stained dagger 

not much air left

when i woke up

but i don’t think we have  

it might work

 it might work

the works ate them 

and they loved the heat 

in their bellies 

they talked of men

for they were the men

who worked the works

in the melt

they moulded each other

in the smoke they believed

they went home

to houses above the works

and looked down

from the slag tops

their thoughts tumbled down

bottomless 

it was

they thought

how heavy tomorrow is

yesterday underfoot

the horizon a brew steeping

sips is all we have

4am

 4am

ungodly hour

empty of thought

full of dread

shelved

corner turned down

in the book of life

question

how many more pages

before the end is revealed

it was light when i started reading 

as the sun went down

before soon said

another dawn

again the question

remained unanswered 

a couple of facts

 a couple of facts

a couple in love

teach other

how to love

each other

each other’s other

is not another

when a couple become

one another 

beware sometimes

 beware sometimes 

beware sometimes 

if you save a lizard

it’s tail might come off

then what are your left with

but the thought ingratitude 

basking in the sunshine

eyes sparkling

considering

 considering 

this transient journey of existence

‘stardust we were and stardust we will become’

insignificance is a big word to swallow 

everything isn’t everything 

nothing is

i do so enjoy star gazing 

on a dark night of the soul

remembering remembering

 remembering remembering 

however old i get

even to the day i die

i will still be younger

than the youngest warrior 

who gave his or her life for me

in the great wars

a rough sea

 a rough sea

hard 

on shard sand

stands the end of summer 

harder than harder

the waves pound 

the west rock wind 

stumbles

jet black clouds channel

surf as white as icing

as the sun breaks through

churning it all it all too much 

is to stand braced

this way and that in

the ebb and flow as its anger

bites bites bites

wave-chasing gulls pull

muscles necked in flight

and what emollient could ever heal 

the bite of a wave’s bladed spite

answer me this

that next wave

could you 

finality

 finality

and not one prayer

to any one of the gods in the pantheon 

have made one blind bit of difference 

euthanasia of the species

sounds like a possible solution 

that is if there is a god

or even a devil 

or nothing at all

impussyble

 impussyble 

the cat

that wants my new seat

initially 

wanted my vacated seat

both of one of us 

is as dull as hell

rhetorical

 rhetorical 

do you remember

‘where were you when the world ended’

take your time

for we don’t have any

no one will be listening

           was anyone ever listening

to your answer 

rain puddle

 rain puddle

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amen

 amen

we sneak glances 

what the fuck does it mean

in the pews of childhood

smirking is complicity

in their mediocrity 

amenhotep

remembrance

 remembrance

their medals turned to buttons

fastening tight their shrouds

and silver fell the tears down

the silence of the crowd

armistice day

 armistice day

still these lean years ask

could i would i have died

would i have even tried

over the top

i know i would have cried

i do now when i have to ask

in my shortening years

why is enough never enough

will enough ever be enough

ever