Train

A poem from 2016

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*I was cheated by you and I think you know when

Do do do do do, la la la la la*

Oh, I love this song

So very jolly

Bouncy

*Mamma Mia! Here I go again!!

La la, do do do resist ya!*

(All aboard! Woo-oo woo!)

Oh that email!

Stupid woman

What’s wrong with her?

I try to be nice

and helpful and all

I get in return

is abuse! She gets on

my nerves when I

see her name in

my inbox I

Freeze and delay

Opening it

Dragging me down

To her level

Criticising

All that I do

Nasty words and

Crap attitude

How I wish I

Didn't have to

Deal with her pettiness

She should get her

Self sorted out

(Chug chug chug chug

Woo-oo woo!

Tccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

End station! Everybody out, please!

We hope you hated your journey

And now feel grumpy and irritated!

Please jump onto this thought train in future

Whenever you're feeling happy!)

Oh no, I missed the rest of the song….

That's my day ruined!

Pass the Popcorn, Please! (A ballade)

A poem from 2016

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Watch those suckers fighting!

They devour each other every day

They claim to be uniting

Pressurised to stay

While desperate to get away

Crawling crimson knuckles and knees

Relish the internecine fray

Pass the popcorn, please!

Brothers, sisters, biting!

Politicking power play

Pledged allegiance owing

Fragile oneness, come what may

Half-mast the red flags barely sway

In the gently blowing breeze

Watch the acid shower spray

Pass the popcorn, please!

Nuclear winter approaching!

Observing the Hell to pay

Blood and bones displaying

Hominid puree

Do you wish you could replay

And make the time we squandered freeze?

With horror and dismay we say

Pass the popcorn, please!

So crack open the Beaujolais!

Discard for once our heart's disease

Sit beside me, interplay

Pass the popcorn, please!

Conspiracy

A Poem from 2016

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Conspiracy, conspiracy, everywhere

And not a drop to drink

Paranoia pervades my friends

And in the past

My heart would sink

To fearful fear

Thinking the same

They're all out to get me

To stab me in the small of the back

Crippled by imagination

“They”

The faceless

The anonymous

Out there

The whatever percent

And now

Powerless

The waters wash beside me

Bliss

Happiness

Not eroded

Peace

With my crossbow

I shot the monster

Forbidden Fruit

A poem from 2016 

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Behind that fence

That barbed wire topped fence

Your fruit

Your juicy fruit

Hanging close

Tantalising

Rich

Ripe

Orange

Fruit

Mouth

Watering

Salivating

Let me get it

You won't stop me

I want what's yours

It's my right

You planted it

You cared for it

You nurtured it

You loved it

I see it

I want it

It's mine!

Give!

It!

I demand!

This Isn't Heaven

A poem from 1986

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4 white walls surround me

but this isn’t heaven

Jesus is with me

but this isn’t heaven

angels screaming

blowing their trumpets

imitating a squeaking door

but this isn’t heaven

a plastic cup oozes imaginary liquid upon a sullied floor

worn away by a million automatons

cigarette ash tarnishes it’s furrowed brow

and spent matches dance the polka

in 4/4 time

an empty sweet packet lies dead on the ground

no, this isn’t heaven

this is the factory packing hall gents smoke room

The Power of Paranoia

A poem from 1992

It’s the thing that paranoia is made of

Strange,

but it’s true

that sideward glance that life casts

at me

Unloved at first sight

We find everything

but that which we want

I want her

but how could I find the way

into her heart?

In more menial example

this creeps upon me

and this poem achieves nothing

it is not worth the paper it is written on