love your neighbour as you love yourself. be not given to. do not harbour bitterness & do not say unto me for instance i have fallen hard times & why should misfortune befall me. be spare. back yourself to say nothing & mean it. condescend to relieve yourself of feeling…
Month: February 2020
Jaraper
caution: contains licentious suggestive imagery Years before the adult animated cartoon series: Big Mouth, with its Hormone Monsters ill-advising, mostly, the cusping pubescences of teenagers, I wrote this poem. The sliding door could be pushed a little extra until a gap, an undetectable slither gave enough to see in to the shower and bath….
leavings
30/11 your death makes the news like a number. something that might happen & does 1/12 for real. 3/12 praise is bad for the artist & blame. especially praise. but praise is good for people. we need encouragement. 4/12 the poet is the Jehovah Witness of the art world. they want…
la fine dell’amore
He was sworn against divorce, While she had had two marriages already. They were together for only eight years. In his seventh decade he gave her a scooter. She accepted, and rode around on it, Through the mountain roads of Italy, Floral dress, light shoes, Half-dome helmet, no lipstick. Just like in a festival film!…
mortification (at the beach)
deny completely, wholeheartedly strenuously. it happens. i mean it never happened absolutely it did – i swear (such indolence is blissful lie w it transpires effectively ending the Resistance. not that it’s war. god- gotten outta hand a- drift still flesh face down. was heading for the beach when & if i…
Milk & Worry
Like the Dad in the Meadowfresh commercial. His daughter off to the dairy by herself. Daddy’s girl. To buy the milk from the friendly dairy owner. All Chinese kids are good at maths and are probably carrying Coronavirus and dairy owners are compulsorily Indian-looking and probably expert at IT. I wish I was that clever…