all i want
is to make things
that people like
and instead
i make things
like this
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Notes:
1. Written on October 31st, 2022
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A Poem For Halloween
Beneath the sea
the bones and ash
of civilisation’s debris
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Notes:
1. Written on October 31st, 2022
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“So that’s what happened,” Tina told everyone, having relayed what she overheard her Mum telling Anna and Oya in the kitchen. “I can’t believe it. Right under our noses and we never suspected a thing!”
“I suspected a thing,” Claire said.
“So did I,” Ethel said.
“I suspected it first,” Claire said.
“We all suspected something, Claire,” Tina said. “Just not that thing.”
“Well I suspected everything,” Claire said. “And I was right!”
“Shut up Claire,” Ethel said.
“You shut up!” Claire said back.
“No you shut up!” Ethel said.
“Anyway,” Tina added. “Now we just have to hope someone finds him before he does all this again to somebody else somewhere else sometime else.”
“Before who does all what again to where and when and why?” Daniel asked.
“The LODGER!” Claire shouted. “Who else would we be talking about?”
“I don’t know,” said Daniel. “So what did he do now?”
“Tina just told us what he did, Daniel,” Ethel said.
“Oh,” Daniel said. “I wasn’t listening.”
“Well you should have been listening,” Tina said. “I’m not saying it all again.”
“But I was playing with the cat,” said Daniel.
“That’s no excuse!” Claire said. “We were all playing with the cat and we still heard.”
“Heard what?”
“Heard EVERYTHING!”
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Notes:
1. Written on October 7th, 2022
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A white heatless sun and a pale quartered moon pass like apparitions in the cloudless skies. Leaves linger on the wind. The only brightness the early fireworks that illuminate the autumnal gloom.
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Notes:
1. Written on May 12th, 2022
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It was my turn as Prime Minister this week.
I was woken up by the whips and given the ceremonial hi-viz and hard hat
then driven straight to Downing Street to give a speech to the assorted Westminster hacks.
I said some nonsense about being here to serve all the people all the time
before adding “All the real people!” with a cheeky wink to the guy from GB News.
His thumbs up meant the world to me.
Once I got inside I turned the heating right up, left all the taps running
and ate every Viennetta in the freezer.
“Bill that to the taxpayer!” I chuckled to some weary civil servant
As I put the hard hat on his head, handed him the hi-viz jacket
and went next door to see who the chancellor was.
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Notes:
1. Written on 20th October, 2022
2. In some weak attempt to be Tim Key