Biography

carbon-based
biped
likes it in his
bed


Currently living just outside of Lichfield
Brummie by birth (sort of)

Samples

fearless

you have made me brave
there is nothing in this world
that scares me now
accept lions
and also moths
and spiders
creatures in general
And the dark
(so please don’t send me out into the garden at night to fetch stuff or put things in the dustbin or anything like that)
But accept for those things
– the fear of creatures and the dark –
there is nothing in this world that scares me now

although it is worth you knowing that i am not too good with wobbly ladders

Gambian holiday new year 2000
I have travelled
so very far
I have travelled
to Africa
I’m not brave
no?
No, it’s a package holiday
Sunny holy days (it’s Ramadan)
Oh so far
to Africa
Two and a half million miles (maybe)
to the welcoming smiles
of the Coca-Cola company
here to feast exotic style
roast beef Yorkshire : baked beans toast : hamburger
mango trees
paper Christmas trees
locals; cats
and all that
on Millennium eve
here is Steve
with his Em
this is the stem
of something greater
coming later
as the fireworks glow
we both know
that the thing on your finger
will make these memories linger
happily planted between
back to front toilets
and Orion the clearest I’ve seen
the chaps on the beach
with ornate crap to sell
keeping their distance : you want juice?
because hotel security men have truncheons : no juice thanks
and navy jumpers
Jumpers! we wear our shorts
Oh but that night
back in the nineties
all wearing silver hats
all looking like twats
plur go the blowers
plurflop go the curly ones
under African sky
you and I
know.

On the possible discovery of liquid water on Mars in the year 2000 and its impact on the further exploration of that planet by humankind

Hoorahs
Water on Mars
Which is lucky ’cos cars
And things have poisoned ours

All for a fiver
i have seen it

yes.

It was there,
outside and within
in his eyes i knew
that i could die,
right there on that pavement
right there.

Death smells of cheap aftershave
and adrenalin.

They (the all knowing they)
say
that your life flashes before your eyes.
Realise
this:

it does not.

No, you are too busy
trying not to die
trying to deny
what is there in his eye.
Right there.

Reclaim it.
Reframe it.
Re-adjust
the dust
of your being
and then

well, then you


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