Situations
you could mistake
your life for a situation
you could make decisions
based on wrong information
it would be great
to be a child again
but we gotta pretend
to love ourselves instead
in your situation
I’d be dead in ten seconds
I speak with endless admiration
for the lifting you do with grace
in your situation
I’d target more than a few for assassination but you endur...
Sunday 1st December 2024 5:08 pm
Swirls of Smoke
everything done and known
fought for or won
loved and overcome
lost and burned down
just swirls of smoke
of a fire stoked
with human ambition
illusions and distances
swirls of smoke
on which we choke
breathe in get high on
or asphyxiate with
these dreams and desires
heartbreaks dire
that leave you lost
devastated giving up
just lines in the air
a child’s sta...
Sunday 1st December 2024 2:55 pm
Distant Star
There you are
in my night sky
like a distant star
to wish upon
and suddenly
problems are gone
I hold your image
I sing your song
protected in my heart
all day long
I send a message
make a poem
just to make
the connection strong
until the morning comes
again burnt by the sun
slaving life away
for some hungry mob...
Saturday 30th November 2024 10:00 pm
Leave the music on
Leave the music on
it keeps ghosts away
the right ones will stay
and the dialogue continues
after we’re gone
Leave the music on
my mom always did
it reminded her
of a symphony and kids
and the rhythms of rain
we’ll play these songs
more than twice
nostalgia cutting us
another thick slice
vibrations moving
time thr...
Thursday 28th November 2024 9:55 pm
Double-Blind Controlled Study
we find ourselves
with ourselves
we’re very busy
scaling the heights
of solitude
it’s heavy lifting
throw something
into the mix
that feels like intimacy
and watch needles
leave the graph
pointing and scratching
I’ve just left
the lab
feeling empty
feeling this experiment
consistently
troubling
w...
Thursday 28th November 2024 2:42 pm
Life’s always new
things tend to move
we get stuck
then find the groove
by mistake or with luck
learning to
ride with you
I’m down with ups
life’s always new
did I ever mention
we share
a certain tension
it’s a secret
lesson
I’ve never learned
repeated til I’m badly burned
restarting my library soon-life’s always new
even at its worst something’s
moving through the pai...
Sunday 17th November 2024 1:05 pm
Wahwahwah
Wahwahwah
Perhaps the universe is mistaken
maybe there’s a quality control issue
that goes all the way to the top
after billions of years of deregulation
it could be that more than a few things
have been gotten wrong
have you looked at the stars lately
don’t they seem a little off
why is gravity always against us
are bacteria coming out on top
what’s love like in other...
Monday 11th November 2024 6:06 pm
The Happy Slave
On a quickly
spinning planet
the biggest risk is
doing nothing at all
Jacob thought
as he reflected on
what he built
what he wanted
and what
he had lost
estimating time left
against his strength
he thought it best
not to fight against
gravity, opinion,
or law
just as he was about
to surrender to god
god came down from heaven
just to slap his igno...
Saturday 9th November 2024 11:17 pm
Parallax
Parallax
Something clicked
it felt automatic
didn’t have to think
I just lived it
like a secret wish
a wet daydream
waking up to be
just what you wanted
If you give me every pleasure
you’ll get it all back
all the time forever
there’s never a catch
somewhere somehow
I’ll feel it again
even if it’s the last thing I do
it’s why I exist
like we’re going places
...
Friday 4th October 2024 4:08 pm
Millionaire of Time
Millionaire of Time
I know the richest man in the world
without a penny to his name
he knows the worth of everything
he knows what’s important
he’s a millionaire of time
holding stresses in one hand
other remains open
to whatever sets in it
millionaire of time
moving the clock at will
with truth and beauty
you can make the world stand still
you’d swear you were sto...
Monday 30th September 2024 2:04 am
The Greats
Here at home
with the greats
knowing full well what they
did at my age
wondering why I didn’t
marry rich
yet I got a pickle
in my sandwich
got moments still my own
if only to touch not to hold
an interior life keeping on the light
decades riding that foam mattress
looking out
to a distant bridge
reading a book
maybe I’ll see you soon
and we’ll talk about the...
Saturday 28th September 2024 6:44 pm
Changing World
Changing World
you live in a changing world
you try to keep up
it’s spinning faster
than the speed of thought
examine yourself to see
if pieces still fit
staring at the ceiling
you can’t stop the spin
she lives in a changing world
dancing to it
you feel biology kick in
you’ve got to be with it
she embraces the new
without hesitation
you search for contradiction...
Sunday 22nd September 2024 4:30 pm
This Aged Head
This Aged Head
I become more ignorant
all the time
more doubtful about
what’s mine
I’d even say
I’m in decline
except for
one thing
that I’m burning
by degree
that’s remained
constant with me
this thing’s here
in front of my mind
that I never
fail to see
and so I work on it
as it changes shape
sometimes I don’t recognize it
most days I lose myself
Wednesday 18th September 2024 2:55 pm
Feels like home
Feels like Home
You ask me why I have these
books I’ve never read
records in plastic
wine going bad
you move in closer
I feel heat of your breath
I look into your eyes
this is what I said
I’m saving it for a moment
a moment just like this
when stars align and
we’re in a state of bliss
when the world outside
has left us enough alone
this is the moment
th...
Sunday 15th September 2024 2:26 pm
Last Witness
Last Witness
you can learn something from everyone
how to be or not to be
I try to live in a world of love
where even my enemies are lovely
how things tend to go down
devil’s in the details
I give him what he wants
the rest I hold onto with nails
I’m the last witness to what I’ve seen
the future lies ahead
everything I’ve known truthfully
is dubious in the end
las...
Saturday 14th September 2024 1:54 pm
My only Secret
My only secret
don’t wanna go out
don’t wanna work out
don’t wanna meet someone
don’t wanna talk
don’t need drugs
don’t give me something sweet
don’t need to buy anything
I only want to read
sick of things getting worse
there’s no one I want to hurt
just to bear witness
is more than I need
I wake up with a hope
I keep it close
...Saturday 7th September 2024 5:00 pm
Inches
Inches
this itch
you can’t reach
you try to scratch
you fall on your back
at least
it’s the sort of pain
you can try to treat
with tiny pills and your hands
will the art make amends
I can’t forget all the stings
you bring new things
into my plans
I pick them up
too late
now the table
has been set
Friday 9th August 2024 12:08 pm
Instructions on the Inside
Instructions on the inside
I’m exciting
I know this from
empirical research
I react to everything
I don’t remain inert
exciting
with no off switch
I make every second count
even when
you don’t wanna hear it
I eat boring for breakfast
and shit magic
I brush my teeth with rules
and guess what happens
of course I work
for a large bureaucracy
with a plastic sp...
Saturday 3rd August 2024 3:37 pm
Just Sign
Looking over the terms of my surrender
I can’t help but feel the Germans were treated better
you’ve got me down to my last dollar
making me swear I’ll love you forever
I’m reading paragraph seven
where you maintain I must obey your every decision
there’s an asterisk attached to that section
that defines “enthusiastic submission”
I’ve read the thi...
Monday 29th July 2024 11:41 am
Heavy Accumulations
You imagine the past
in the present you can’t
guess what happened
to those you know lost
to the folds of time
in vain you hope they had
more glorious lives
than a grind
like the coffee they drank
all the way to the bank
in god they trust
while their hearts
can’t thank
that cowardice
that safety
that tricked them
from ever moving towards anything
th...
Tuesday 16th July 2024 7:04 pm
Lost in a "U"
without help from the stars
we drive this carcass so far
until we nearly stall
just pulled back from it all
lost in a you
what can we do
with just this one
outside world
you say it’s not my fault
asking for my pin numbers
I’ve cut all my cards
let’s sing for our suppers
lost in a you
with me, too
things that go down
must so...
Monday 15th July 2024 5:06 am
This Forever
You can’t do it alone
it’s too heavy to hold
but we can do it
forever
everyone has gone
I’m taking you home
we face the dark
together
there was a time before
everyone gave you love
you thought it would
go on forever
that time’s gone
you wonder why
you’re alone
calling stars with no answer
I’m here and you’re there
w...
Sunday 7th July 2024 8:07 pm
Issues
issues everbody’s
got issues
some keep ‘em under wraps
others collect a whole set
a shy kid
I went home and hid
reading comic books
playing records
got attracted to girls
with super-powers
I hid my hobbies
to not appear so lonely
now I’ve got issues
plenty of issues
I work out the kinks
with ladies and a shrink
but there are issue...
Thursday 4th July 2024 5:47 pm
In the Sprawl
In the Sprawl
One day the truck didn’t come
and the customers stayed
after the food ran out
we went into the lot with the spades
we started to break up the asphalt
planting the salad greens
some tried to eat a small car
it tasted like chicken they claimed
we raised our first crop of lattés
just before the Fall rains
our cheeseburgers are coming along
we’ll have y...
Friday 28th June 2024 8:14 pm
The Danger
The Danger
The most dangerous thing is to do nothing
to hold the winning hand
to wait until it’s too late to play
to watch it evaporate in the glass
I hold onto just one thing
turning it over in a second
shiny-hard, polished sweat
speaking about it breaks the spell
outside of us there’s nothing
compelling as it is
my mind goes back to thes...
Friday 28th June 2024 4:41 pm
Peopling
People are problematic
they don’t always do what you want them to
sometimes they do
nothing at all
you have to beg and threaten
curse and provoke
the way you’d
eat a cannibal
people are my favorite drug
the way they reflect your thoughts
I like watching them if only to predict
where and where they start to go wrong
when ...
Thursday 27th June 2024 11:53 am
Unregulated
Unregulated
I say “I love you”
a lot to all my friends
I don’t think this
cheapens my love
I like to spread it
around until it
achieves a rich
consistency
Monday 24th June 2024 3:02 pm
The Usual
we’re dying
I thought you knew that
did you forget when
you went to work depressed
we’re dying
and we don’t know exactly
what it means but it should
give us reason to pause
and reflect on meaning
in this dailyness
how we treat ourselves
and each other
we’re dying like everyone
who’s come before and left
writing a word or a line
...Monday 17th June 2024 11:14 pm
3 Drunken Poems
3 Drunken Poems
Twenty-Twenty-Four
I’m OK
but
It hurts
Men
We can’t
Give birth
So we
Play with our hair
In Praise Of
It was
Enough
Just to be
In her presence
Sunday 9th June 2024 2:13 pm
Years & Miles
She knows when you call and why
sometimes she’ll pick up
other times she’s tired
of your leftover
emotions
and clichéd situations
all those
entanglements
that she used to desire
she wants to be proven wrong
wants to know there’s still
a hope coming with the dawn
after too many late nights
of never getting it right
leaving what she wanted
years & miles behind
Sunday 2nd June 2024 7:23 pm
Finger painting
got your outsides covered
by former lovers
just when you thought
there was nowhere to hide
I pick up my brush
I paint your insides
I’ve got more than
eight million colors
most can’t be seen
they’re felt all over
I make you cry
tears of delight
just you now wait
for the rollers
painting your insides
in a rainbow
painting your insides
with a hint of a shadow...
Monday 27th May 2024 5:06 pm
Your last chance to sell out
Your last chance to sell out
we’ve been impressed
with the consistency of your work
the way you dress
you’ve cultivated this look
like to make you an offer
join us with what we do
want you as part of a team
to have your voice in the future
we’re making something new
to revolutionize the world
going to shake things up
it’s really going ...
Monday 27th May 2024 11:51 am
Annoyances
annoyances
the future needed your help
it wasn’t begging
it didn’t have anything to sell
just wanted to tell you something
everything you thought was solid’s
boiled off into a gas
everything that was promised
has been shown not to last
now there’s just you
and a little bit of time
that you were planning
on spending any wa...
Sunday 26th May 2024 4:10 pm
Another Song for my Friends
(Another) Song for My Friends
I think of all the
beautiful things you do
how kindness is
so important to you
how you’ve never made
pure dick moves
thinking of others
as just important as you
and you’re my friends
and though I hope
to see you again
you’re in my heart
and it helps me
get through
what I do here
how could we
have ever known
we were young
a...
Sunday 26th May 2024 2:55 pm
The furniture of the moment
you can sit on top of it
it really looks good
take a picture
send it around the world
you can’t have it
but you can be sure
the good life is out there
waiting for you
I got people coming over
in a little time from now
consider cleaning up
this mess somehow
the furniture of the moment
wants you to sit down
relax yourself on it
a...
Saturday 11th May 2024 2:17 pm
Sweetness & Grind
Sweetness & Grind
Will you ever find
that sweetness again
time has passed
money’s spent
just this memory
of how things felt
an ancient song
a familiar smell
and the rest
isn’t worth mentioning
on the margins
of daily existence
the din and the hum
shape and the blur
no longer enthralls
but you endure
Thursday 9th May 2024 6:04 pm
Esoteric
I live with you
outside the empirical
deep into the subjective,
mystical, and unsubstantiated
we are ruled by preferences,
tastes, and desires
time’s not our enemy
it’s just fucking inconvenient
what we do with ourselves
is nobody’s business
we are just art in process
to be consumed
as a pleasurable delicacy
sometimes had
at a deeply
discounted price
Sunday 5th May 2024 1:03 pm
True
you should try being true
it’s not the easiest thing to do
it won’t pay for new shoes
but it might save you some trouble
some time from now
I used to worry what
others would think
I used to get along
because
that seemed easy
but it took me places
that weren’t easy
to leave
especially
when things got ugly
there were others ar...
Saturday 4th May 2024 1:04 pm
This; not that
I never thought of myself as weird,
exceptional, or damaged
I assumed we were all one
against a suicidally mediocre reality
I never felt so alone as when
I was intimate with people
who embraced things as they were
as part of their mental routines
and yet somehow feeling we had
enjoyed a meeting of the minds
Tuesday 30th April 2024 11:35 pm
Matters
Matters
I meet you in various
states of matter
you say it’s of no concern
ethics are for children
as the universe swirls
I build on my experience
I try to make sense of my life
while you throw it up in the air
it makes for pretty designs
perhaps we’re wholly
complementary
maybe there’s no fit at all
just a reaction
some plasma and gas
and then two chocolate gel...
Saturday 27th April 2024 12:44 pm
On it
On it
How can anything
be a love song
with everything going on
how can we think of us
against these flames
in the background
maybe lovers in Vesuvius
thought the same thing
smile and pose for history
we’re in the moment
exactly like this
how can anything be a love song
so that’s what you thought
as I make the world stop
for a moment and you can
put down y...
Thursday 25th April 2024 8:22 pm
Slip Permission
I screwed up
and I got back
to where I swore
I’d never find myself again
amongst the ranks
of fallen men
that familiar smell
of failure I know too well
and you move inches
away from me
seeing less of what you once
saw in me
I’m falling by degrees
you warned me
there are no
guarantees
and how I want to be back
i...
Tuesday 23rd April 2024 9:33 pm
Flipping the Cup
Sometimes I’m a critic
I try not to be a cynic
I’ve been spun by life
too many times that
I’m not always with it
I look for a narrow line
I don’t find it every time
but I often see you there
and I’m so happy
to share the moment
I block out
more than I take in
as the glass remains
almost full
got a lot to work with
I don’t g...
Tuesday 23rd April 2024 3:35 pm
Like Children
like children we reach
for dangerous things
placed just out
of our hands
demanding happiness
from these lives
as if it was a right
to command
we land on our backsides
kings and queens of an empty sky
holding up memories
for a meaning we can’t seem to find
like children we’re
afraid of the night
seeking out warmth
in the curv...
Monday 22nd April 2024 6:08 pm
My fictional past
my past keeps changing
like a snake
striking at targets
changing shapes
just when you think
it meets its fate
it sheds its skin
shaking another tale
of course I’ve been there
and done that
even if I haven’t
dreams and memories
start to blur
what does it matter if I didn’t
there’s no way
to escape this fate
adding layers
soon starts to fail
in the scena...
Saturday 20th April 2024 7:15 pm
Select all the images with Motorcycles
Select all images with motorcycles
I try to understand the world
I don’t understand the world
I start with a small corner
big enough for myself and a dog
and then I add you
and the corner loses its edges
the confusion turns into
some kind of theatre
and sometimes I return
to that solitude
and add it to yours
and it brings some...
Tuesday 16th April 2024 8:25 pm
Others
you find it again
you don’t know when
the signals sent
to others
a partial match
a release and catch
the night goes on
forever
now you’re tired and sick
while something sticks
that taste of a former
lover
bedpost chewing gum
she was the one
what was lost is now found
in others
Sunday 14th April 2024 12:31 pm
Game of Life
be that for me
I’ll be that for you
doesn’t really matter
if it’s real or true
love is work
the sweetest kind
you still have to bust
ass to be mine
tell me what
I want to hear
I don’t want to know
what you really feel
I’ll tell you what sounds
sweet to your ears
you’ll sleep like a baby
feel the night disappear
don’t come at me
with the look of a child
y...
Sunday 7th April 2024 1:06 pm
Gimme the Unusual
Gimme the unusual
I’ll take a drop of the tropical
pinch of the atonal
stirred with a time signature
that remains unknowable
gimme a shot of the unusual
send it over quick
I’ve had enough of the banal
to last me many years
One more narrative
without a thread
several cut up
fifties experiments
a whole tale dictated
by a pink monkey ...
Monday 1st April 2024 11:17 pm
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