Culture slumming

Talking about a road trip, talking about our rain dance
so as the rain hit we were Cab Calloway cool.
Smoking out back, crying to the sky.
Maybe I fell when you walked towards me?
I should have lost my head but there was something
in the smell of the soil that kept me and I learnt not to question.
The sun was silent in the houses and their bricks,
boulders cracked smiles, an old friend passing us for good.
You blew smoke into my face, you dirt.
Which can’t mean anything other than you hated me everyday.
Even now as your mouth holds tomorrow:
cuckoo, egg, waltz.
But there it was, going and going through the sore sand.
Your hips missed when you pinned me against the fence
of the diner as we kissed.
My sticky back scratched with the honey from your breakfast
and the pulsing in my temple felt like your fingers
on the dashboard when they spelled out:
no matter where I go, I’m going and going.

Space Man

Space and I
Will die alone together
Side by side
You will join
So will you
Like frankfurters piling up the M1

Into the earth

Slip my stars
To sit confused in the sky
As my lover wonders where I’ve gone
And why I left my taxes unfinished
On the dinner table.

Do you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit??

Thought I'd get this up now before all copyright rules in the world mean we need to start young persons educational institutions that draw ideals from 'Battle Royale'.

Claustrophobia

I once met a man who chewed air
he was sitting, gulping, for a long journey
hoping that he would fill up like a balloon
and float away


Dinner

I would always gingerly approach her
A woman with wild, bright, eyes
I would treat her as though she didn’t like me
I would ignore her
Maybe a glean of dry charisma,
But if she mentions dinner, there are certain rules.

The most worrying part, is that,
With the world ending this year
You would hate to find out that she is like your mother
And eats politely.
When I take a woman to dinner
I expect to see her spit
To find such delight
In this culinary carnivorousness
That she cannot control her enzymes
I want to see her laughter lurch in strings down her teeth
And gather in a hot pool under the table
Where I can melt and crumble
A sour cobbler.

An honest woman speaking with the swill
Of mastication
Will let her fingers draw tight around the bread knife
Even if an extreme squeeze sends it flying through the air
To butter her hair
I will dribble bolognese down my chin.

Ether hot list

I'm on the Ether Books "what's hot" list! Hooray!!! Thank you everyone x

Ether books

My short story Midsummer Murderer is available to read on Ether Books. It's Free to download for next two weeks so crack on with that ardent fans!!! Would love and appreciate your support. The link is to the app is: http://bit.ly/bpvC84
There are some great pieces of writing on this app including stories by Jim Dunkley, so worth downloading anyway! Cheers!!

And thanks Ether Books, it's nice to feel wanted and to get involved in such a great idea to get people reading more and more.

You can also read Midsummer Murderer in the short stories page of this blog. Thank you kind and noble people xx

Living for the weekend

This is a list of some words I have been making note of, in case one day I remember them.

These words now belong exclusively to me.

I hope to read them out at poetry recitals and my vain swollen tongue will trip over itself and flop around on my lips like a horny salmon. Women will get wet listening to me talk. Maybe I should remove that from my CV.

Words In No Particular Order

Innocuous
Garrulous
Triumvirate
Facetious
Fecundity
Sanctioned
Ubiquitous
Ribald
Nascent
Volte-face
Exultant
Assail
Insouciant
Omnipresence
Puritanical
Dissipation
Ebullience
Hedonist
Reprehensible
Actuated
Condescension
Rancour
Croupier
Vitriolic
Ambivalent
Avuncular
Parsimonious
Antiquated
Anthropomorphic
Harangue
Elegy
Acquiescence
Rustication
Capacious
Mediocrity
Establishmentarianism
Cerebral
Incongruous
Meritocracy
Autocratic
Paternalistic
Sycophant
Balletic
Morality
Catatonic schizophrenia
Earnest
Syllogism
Fiscal
Libertarianism
Rubric
Moralistic
Equinox
Vernal
Sardonic
Sycophantic
Intransigence
Synonymous
Fastidious
Baroque
Unscrupulous
Entropy
Occlude
Chaos
Conduit
Maudlin
Raconteur
Rumbustious
Holistic
Exalted
Malaise
Lugubriously
Lugubrious
Esoteric
Altruism
Equanimity
Convivial
Briary
Subcontinent
Inviolate
Jingoistic
Injudiciousness
Prolific
Benevolent
Cavalcade
Salubrious
Contagion
Metamorphose
Omnipotence
Liturgy
gestural
Ostensibly
Transgression
Transgress
Contentious
Philanthropist
Monopolise
Illimitable
Modulate
Rhetoric