Tag: imagination
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WHEREDYOUGROWUP
We had a weird childhood looking back We played Crash Bandicoot 2 During IRA beat each other blue and black Played hide and seek, squares, manhunt, dares We leapt like Tarzans Lunched on Mars Bars Tipped back Lilt cans Merciless at red arse Chasing, tip the can, dodgeball Ball-based field games played them all Ran…
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MIKEOFTHENEWSUN
You’re playing demon souls I’m fulfilling demon’s goals My dwelling is derelict, a fixer upper Perhaps fitting for the Lictor Me and Dorcas are a couple A corpse is my lover Fuligin is my cover Bees around clover Ants around butter Flies around shit People around Smother.
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WHYAMWRITING
My writing a giant tower Each storey a life story A foundation that shakes Or a stamen of a flower Built by William Blake See eternity in an hour Power of now pales To the powerful sound Of young Boreas’ gales The bards strummed scales Orpheus had played O’er the elden dales Females irreverent in…
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Club Killer
The bald big lipped toll taker with a head like an Olmec demands our souls Behind him a shelf of enormous bones for when Cerberus is left alone I try to sweeten him up, straighten my tie and lean in; we’re friends of Orpheus, you know My tongue dulcifies my language, which usually sufficed His…
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Dial
Well, that’s your plan scuppered, he mutters He sees them malingering outside, snipes from the gutter Doubtless holding tucked cutters Knows the kind, make career Of destroying the area Knows how to deal with them Just like he did in Korea Call in the pros, Mavis Old man wielding a baseball bat instructs his wife…