Tag: poetry
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Pyramids and prisoners
Moronic but when I get on it I feel pharaonic I also lose the plot. Plots of oddly named chronic Vacuum packed and doubled boxed in lockups. In cells I swerved aryans and incels, did pull and pushups, Did crunches and lunges until calves and stomach toughened. Dumped all my points into toughness, encumbrance. All…
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POSTPRANDIAL GIZMO
Bumping Curtisy Landmine as we cross this land of mine My drugs land mine how they leave you legless Unable to peg it when I take out the skeng Crusties with dread mullets in my house Skulling cans of borrowed Bulmers in my lounge Scroungers, drowned rat look, wet dog redolent smell, I cast a…
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Jerks of the Pob
I ran all over town in a duck down jacket, like a down and out hunting fag ends I have more racks than Baggins stores in Bag End, bagged half a dragon’s swag Bent coppers round these ends, not afraid to bust heads like Aztec trepanning experts Sex pests, leng ones, ex pats, drunk Paddys,…
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Turks
Aqua vitae makes me equip the heater I’m buying heroin outside a Byzantine theatre, paying in lira Shut up shutters shout upward loudshushing, IIyrian dawn greets us Acting like a jerk because I’m a young Turk and tough as old jerky Hey jive turkey you’re looking at Hercules early 30s, see these white pearlies Just…
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Grace
Grace is self-effacing It turns away Steels, braces at embrace Loathing haste Loathing the vulgarity of wasteful lust When with wastrel gaze one may strain faraway at radiance And be yet bathed in light’s amazing gifts; the bright writing Which delights all lovers, plots the flights of paradise-blooded birds With wondrous dye-flooded pinions, inscribes fizzing…