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Kicking and Screaming
The clowns and the madmen are led away,
Kicking and screaming, kicking and screaming.
The brand-new Bentley is brought out to play,
Factory-gleaming, factory gleaming.
The streets are swept free of the dust and muck,
Spit-clean and polished, spit-clean and polished;
Around lies the city’s ardour and luck,
Smashed and abolished, smashed and abolished.
As simpering rules...
Monday 26th August 2024 8:21 am
Nineteen Eighty-Four
‘A truth denied is truth decried’,
I once heard some wise person say.
But what if truth is optional,
Or fuzzy-edged or ill-defined?
(The point seems rather underlined).
Then how differs fact from fiction
On this or any given day?
There is no future and no past;
It’s just a matter of control.
What has happened and will happen
Depend upon our latest whim
(The pr...
Saturday 15th June 2024 8:53 am
Socially Perfect
I love my perfect life
With my perfect kids and my perfect wife
And all those perfect times we’ve had
Being the perfect mum and perfect dad
And our perfect home where perfect friends
Adapt perfectly to every trend
Or those perfect days spent at the beach
Who says perfection’s out of reach?
We have perfect times when we go out
With perfect people round about
As our perfect laughter fi...
Thursday 16th May 2024 8:01 pm
Election Campaign
We went to a ball, but they said we could not dance.
We joined a choir, but they said we could not sing.
We ordered a beer, but they said we could not drink.
We shared an embrace, but they said we could not love.
We went to the bathroom, but they said we could not wash.
We sat in a restaurant, but they said we could not eat.
We took out our pens, but they said we could not write.
...Saturday 20th January 2024 8:46 am
Brownland
There's a sickly sense of unease
Background anxiety in the air
Something wrong with the planet
Like a hole getting ready to tear
Science is tomorrow's igorance
We grew too big for our boots
We've dug a hole in the future, its
Too late to go back to our roots
Greenland's ice seemed a fixture
Taken for granted, always there
Now its melting, dying, dwindling
...Saturday 22nd August 2020 11:09 am
Army of pacifists
She knew he was psycho
It takes two to tango.
she was just as guilty.
She was just as guilty.
He preyed on her because he saw her weaknesses
the holes through her defense
he was gonna score
he was gonna score !
They are not what they seem.
The critters crawling in their teeth
Hiding behind sheep
hiding behind sheep.
Tuesday 7th March 2017 4:54 am
Wide Is The Gate And Broad Is The Road
Wide Is The Gate And Broad Is The Road
A sky bleached like old bones
dug from damp earth on an autumn morning.
The pale sun spits on car roofs in a Northern town
where colours hide behind a sheen of grey.
Tram tracks, like silver trails of slugs,
pacing the slowly walking midnight man.
Something ancient and horrid has left a double-mustard
trail of crumbs for him to follow, but nev...
Friday 13th March 2015 12:26 pm
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