You want a declaration an admission that the insolvable that you caught sight of is my folly not my fact A figment of my fantasy not a condition of my existence How much easier it would be to talk around a day dream than it is to live within a […]
Poem
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A land where the pub tribute beats the original and the original is a bit too much Where the Other is fine when far away and terrifying in close proximity Where the drink is necessary but never natural and taken in to erode unself away from true self At once […]
Call this the atomic age because we’ve split separated right down the mind’s eye and even my own selves are strangers neurotic and afraid it’s all just a wait now, for the wind to blow, expansive clouds to form and the disjointed to become the destructive
I want to put beauty down create nothing more than delicate wonder with a few simple words laid down with no force and no thought but even beauty now seems to have owners and whatever I can see and love seems to step into the copyright of an indifferent class […]
You own the houses the streets the shops the grass the grey the ground the walls the sky There’s no taking them back but do you have to take the rest? Do you need the feelings? the love the anger the security? Do you need our past? do you need […]
You cornered me with love a contortion into hate between what you said and what you did who you claimed and who you were a chaotic contradiction out of which I ended up believing that to control was to care and to fear was to feel You wielded over me […]
Nothing became the action Nothing became the word Exhausted of all content Nothing was all they heard — For more from me you can check out my collection No Cure for Shell Shock – available in paperback and digital formats. Or you can try any of my other work here – variously available as ebooks […]
In the sudden glow of fortune the half light of discontent the darkened shades of mourning and starlight of lone laments in the burning forgotten embers of loving words now spent and the blazing flames of glory when we were what we present in the flickering glow of quiet times […]
Blades revolving in internecine clashes killing light denying fleeting peace, assuring violent serenity in steel sweeps slicing with dismembering blows at already scattered limbs which long for convalescence between shafts of broken sun which show all but heal nothing
Bury me, eclipse me, consume me, draw blood and steal flesh, drain all that I have leave waste you bestow on ignored lice eager to feed on poor leavings Rigid and frail though my bones emerge un-cracked, if scarred, from the gluttonous onslaught and within them lies marrow, the final […]