Tuesday 13 December 2011
Monday 21 November 2011
For the King Rat on his Birthday. (You're not Punk, and I'm telling everyone.)
The chapter never ends if
You do not read the last line
So we pull it on and over
Into Real Life where
You get bigger and stronger
And take me with you
Like a current, swept up
Pulling me along
A caring wave that
Will not stop until we reach the shore
‘I believe that I hate you more than anything
Else in the world’ are the truest words
You ever penned and
The pain in which we celebrate and devour each other
Is the marrow core of what we are because
We are not a work of fiction.
- For Beau Voge
- For Beau Voge
Sunday 20 November 2011
Thursday 3 November 2011
Waltzing
I’m not sure who you are
But the way you are going
I’m going too
You’ve got something of the Devil in you
I am the birth
And you are the death
Together we are change
Wednesday 2 November 2011
2nd November 2011, 21:58.
'Yeah, but we love each other....
But it doesn't mean we have to have a 'relationship'.
I'd much rather read your writing
Than do your washing up.'
But it doesn't mean we have to have a 'relationship'.
I'd much rather read your writing
Than do your washing up.'
Sidenote
"Make sense," Fielding said,
"Tell the real story of your life. You alone
Can tell the truth!"
"I don't want to make any sense," I replied.
I'm too ugly to go out into the world.
I'm a hideous monster.
- Kathy Acker: 'The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec.'
"Tell the real story of your life. You alone
Can tell the truth!"
"I don't want to make any sense," I replied.
I'm too ugly to go out into the world.
I'm a hideous monster.
- Kathy Acker: 'The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec.'
Dry Dock
it’s ten o’clock, time
to leave
pack
up
ship
out
sail
only
now
the motor’s broken.
Saturday 29 October 2011
Little Bird
'I'm in love' she spat, pounding
My chest with her tiny fists
That felt like birds fluttering
Against
My ribcage.
I thought my ribs caged a love
For her.
But there between my arms
And cold stare, I knew that I could
Crush her.
My chest with her tiny fists
That felt like birds fluttering
Against
My ribcage.
I thought my ribs caged a love
For her.
But there between my arms
And cold stare, I knew that I could
Crush her.
Wednesday 26 October 2011
Tuesday 25 October 2011
Hold Tight
Grey ash rises
And I feel my skin and bones
Changing
I am decaying
Watch
The cinders sit like oil
On the water
And I fall
Like a penny
Down into the depths
No hope and lost rope
I leave you content
Below the waves
Below the waves
For you have already touched the sky
My hand
Your chest
An accidental death
Friday 21 October 2011
Same Old
With One word or
One look, it’s over.
When just before I was about ready
To stand up and shout
Out about this crazy little thing called ‘Swoon’.
But with you I’ve learnt how quick
Instant really is. That tone of voice
Or your head
In those hands makes me cough
Up that lump in my throat for
A little bit of attention,
That stuff that made me ‘Smitten’.
So when the change comes,
As it has come before, the mood is more
Suited to those willing to fight for the
Sake of it,
When I’d rather scream for the love of it.
Friday 3 June 2011
Wednesday 1 June 2011
swing open, door!
Grit, gravel and spit,
Bonfires lit, then dampened
With sentiments cast out like runes,
Unfulfilled and self fulfilling, twisting
In pockets
Where graven, holy hands
Finger them smooth as golden eggs,
And keep them warm until they burst.
Sunday Morning
You have eyes like an
Egyptian cat.
Now,
There’s a story
Behind that. ‘They aren’t mine’
I say.
I borrowed them.
I met him playing dice in the alleyway.
In the dark.
Playing dice with a scarab beetle.
Howling and cackling.
Drinking from strong bottles and
Betting with caps. His eyes, I remember
I promised to bring them back.
With a plump and juicy rat
Caught
Between my own teeth, and
Wrapped
Within my own hair.
Monday 30 May 2011
Jeg Elsker Dig
I walk so close to you that
My tiny shoes tip- tap on
The back of your soles. But you
Only turn and smile, as if to say
‘It’s lucky you have caught me on a good day.’
The Pawn Shop
Twenty pounds
Was all I got
For that cheap,
Lousey ring.
But that's a lie.
The old man
With the gut
And sweat
Behind the counter
Will take me out
To dinner
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