The main problem in the world at the moment is laurels People rested on them and now they don’t know how to get up again
Laurels
Poetry
April 2020
The trees don’t know any different and the animals are all coming into town Lions and tigers and bears – oh my! Or goats and deer at least, and not here – the LS4 postcode probably doesn’t hold much appeal to escaped farm animals and wild game Let’s be realistic This isn’t a film It … Read More
We Take a Walk (And Don’t Come Back)
We take a walk and don’t come back We don’t come back again You and me and someone else Whoever I was then
Chemistry
Late stage of the holocene Oxys, cat and Otrivine Tyrozets and codeine Fake dead plants and benzene.
Time and Tide
The thin transparencies of yesterday are lost in time’s relentless sea, superimposed on the images that we believe we see We walk the abstract path of time We are thrown on a one way road We stare outside in windowless rooms We cannot crack the code Time is certain and definite. Time does not exist. … Read More
Then and Never
We’d all laugh and drink and fight Fourteen, fifteen, out all night In the streets and on the park All the voices after dark That’s how it would always be Till forever you and me Now it’s all just way back when Was it so much better then Just like you say Back in the … Read More
Something is Missing
Your eyes are full of it You were sixteen Their shapes cast shadows on the stairs Your eyes are full of it Under the influence Under the stars Under the stairs Under a dark cloud Your eyes are full of it Eighteen Another fucking party, kid Every fucking day We drank all the beer and … Read More
Shadows in the Doorways
At seventeen you think That things will all work out Clear nights and alcohol There’s no-one else about And all along I knew It wouldn’t be okay Making conversation With nothing left to say I’m free to run away And make a brand new start Maybe I’ll save my feelings But I’m breaking someone’s heart … Read More
Seer’s Walk
Already drunk at half past eight You told me to sit and wait At seventeen I’d seen it all I laughed back when you said you’d call The messages that no-one sends All my friends and these dead ends I’ve seen the truth in just desserts Negotiating my reserves And all the cons I sought … Read More
Pieces
No-one left to hear the things you say No-one left to play the games you play No-one left to save you when you fall out with yourself It’s just one bad decision away