Thursday, 12 August 2010

Modern Living

I sit and take in the dead
As love rushes through strangers
Invisible as me, sat in the corner
Waiting for it, to end
An hour passed, two words sent
Thank you
I'm so glad they don't see me
It makes me feel
Special
To be the unobserved observer
Taking in, spitting out, uncoordinated
ramble, ramble, shite
I'll sit and sweat, craving smokes
And be contently hidden
Behind such modern living.

Of Jim

He runs as mad as me
He flies higher
Go man, go!
He laughs like a madman
Knowing it, for the hell of it
He thinks on his own, this one
And teaches freedom
The beat priest!
The stoner shaman!
He's got visions
He paints unreality on dying fish
He digs it! He loves it!
He's going places, places that don't exist
He's you, man
He's us, friend
He's IT.

...

This is my life shirt
These are my hello shoes
This is pre-pubescent Latin girls with stolen Chinese baby
This is hunger
This is bad grammar
These are the shakes
This is beer
This is crazy in my eyes
I see future
I see terrified fear in nothing air
This is shit
This is fuck, cunt, curse
This is the great white orb
This is the most open I have ever been
This will never have a name
This will never belong
Anywhere

Monday, 19 July 2010

What So

If this is what it takes to be a mind creative
Then let this be a creative mind
Medicinal, mechanicial, monologue
Come now and see the show of what you never thought your child would be
Fucked on cough syrup, nictotine and the old friend booze
WITNESS LIFE
See us, see me. Yourself.
If this is a mind creative
Then we are a creative mind.

Friday, 9 July 2010

Simple

When I need
I need.
No denying
No fucking around
No romantic slobbery
Drooling with sentimentality and Chocolate
No Fools Gold
Dramatised television regurgitation
It is, as is, I am
It is, this is, we are.

Monday, 12 April 2010

Tramp-O-Line

Yes, the answer
This is it!
Wealth, success, happiness(?)
Bounce
Bounce
Bounce

Only here in the Gifted North
Southern leanings on council estates
Disfigured front yard discs
Need not apply

Spring creak
Muscle stretched
Across broken bone
Potential

Tensed black material
Mid-life crisis
Phallic complex
Went for the 12 foot deluxe

I have a trampoline
Thus, achieved
I have a trampoline
Thus, succeed
I have a trampoline

Tramp
O
Line

Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Orange Mist

When the land is all orange mist
Well the white light man is King
When illuminated streets are deserted
No-one can hear him sing
Tales of trees and animal heads
A girl that he thought he knew
Lonely lay bys a refuge for sin
A pleasure reserved for the few

Nights long forgotten are woken again
And feline eyes reappear
So long since the world was sodden right through
And the moonlight held no fear
Time is an essence that was thrown to the wind
Patience a virtue no more
This man exists but in his own head
Allowing his thoughts to soar

So I desperately cling to all that I know
But age and wisdom befall
And so I am lost too a future unsure
When all that I want is to call
On that orange mist land where I was a King
And my light could be seen for miles
Sitting with friends under sunstreaked trees
When all that I knew were smiles.

(I wrote this about a year ago, maybe more, just happened to find it in an old notebook yesterday.)