Thursday 28 October 2010

W.

W

Is
The
Odd
One
Out.

It's
The
Only
Letter
Which
Is
Also
Two
Words.

Double U.

UUhat UUere You UUondering about? UUhich UUay to go?

UUanker.

Tuesday 26 October 2010

Arvey's Award Winning Cogs

A while ago I was thinking
God I'd better get a job
And I did
And they gave me £4.80
An hour
For dishpiggery and starving myself
In a kitchen.
Eight out of seventeen pounds that night
would go
on the taxi ride home.
So I left that one
And money came anyway
And the winter was measured
In Irish stews and warm house.

It's a year later
And I've blown all of the cash
I made
And applied again.
We've won a lot of awards you know.
What can you bring to this business?

I saw my boss in premier
So when you coming to work for us?
You said you'd call.
Come over tomorrow.
Sometimes I
Just feel like calling him
Up and saying
I'm not a cog Arvey
I'm not a cog
I'm a wheel.

Do you have those skills?
What do you lack?

And it doesn't matter because
The winters these days
Are measured
In new belt holes
in leather.

Thursday 21 October 2010

Daysleep Dog Remedy

I crawled downstairs and
I wondered
How how can I feel better?

And Hollie said
Jasper will help you
And he had a puppy with him

A puppy's puppy
And he poured a remedy
Into a clay cup with his teeth
Licked it
And nudged it towards me with his nose.

I added some squirty cream
And it was the best thing I had ever tasted.

Sunday 17 October 2010

Stephen Will Follow His Heart Because He Knows Who He Is

When was it
That Stephen decided
That his mind
Should lie

In constant unrest?

At what point did he
Feel that urge
To confess
That pursuit of content
Always Happy
Happy-Go-Lucky?
This is a thing worth striving for,
Not-worth-doing.

In a quick and breathless action
Stephen is relieved
His breath is fog
His mind is fixed and ready.

FROM HIS LOINS UP THROUGH HIS SPINAL COLOUMN HIS SEED FLOWS FERTILE NORTH TOWARDS HIS CONSCIOUS WOMB AND ATTEMPTS HIS CHOICE PERSONAGE.

If an ovum has been released,
Stephen can unite himself with himself.
For Stephen it's a race and there can only be one winner.

Now there is a new Stephen.
The monoparent is lost to dead memory.