Monday, 3 January 2011

Why man is a lonely drug





Too many heartbeats/not enough heartbeats
Rhythm is all out
                           the walkers are talkers
Disruption of fecal matters
Brand                     I am a doorstep to dawn
At night I am a golden eagle
                               Have you seen the sign?
A wheatfield on fire
A parachute on water
Combine various elements, set them free
                                The rat-a-tat of history is your undertaker
Meet a maker, shake a tin
                          This is murder, I cannot forget the foreign dew
Her remains are locked in the padded cell
I have a key to her horror
                                      She knows Christ, and every sailor
Every carpenter who slips on shocks
               I am awake to marvellous guns, to heresy, flocks
Of bastard swans are hanging from a hydrogen balloon
I pick them off, one by one
                               They fall and fly
                                Like teardrops
                                Their wings are creosote dreams
                                Sometimes I lie awake dreaming of this




Sunday, 2 January 2011

Dark and lonely water




Rabbit hutch with a man inside





Spit/spite
A Demian in the undressing
A hollow post
                              Grand tournament of the shallow ones
Cathedral on fire, castanets shaking on coffin lids
Purple ducks falling from the back of a rubbish lorry
Paws of cats in plastic bags
                                          Tip toe, horror of the ghosts
The Chinese lock, rabbit hutch with a man inside
                                                      Fingers like lead
                                                      Chocolate drops, bleeding nose
                                                      Twitching like Orinoco
A calm day on calm seas
                                    Floating on the water, what’s left of the water
                                    Cannonballs in the sky, suspended, there’s a
Slow silver sound
The geese are wrapped around themselves
                                         Stopwatch – it’s God
                                         Remember the cotton wool
You punctured your life! Whoops – is that a curse?
I seem like I did
                           The rabbits are fucking each other
                           They like it
                           I like to watch them, I like to watch them
                           I like to watch them
                           I like to watch them




Saturday, 1 January 2011

The lonely boy on the box





Tit for tat, the front is back
Assassin ate        I am a coffin in a doorway
Your fingers are sticky with catnip, lucky
It’s lucky to be lucky – do you feel, lucky?
                    I am a baa baa
                                     In the sheep pen on a black hill
The black sky and the black arms of God
                                    seal windows in the sky
You forgive me/forgive me                            I am a dust cloud
A mouthful of dreams
                                    waking up in the wonderland
                                                                     I cut open a mosquito
A music box of diamond-encrusted sound
I put a knife into a keyboard
It bled thick black notes, and the whitest tears
                           Passive – aggressive – the lonely boy on the box
What’s in the box?
                           It’s only half of her
                           The other half is in the sink, or something
You lost your way home on the way to Tipperary
                              Singing all the white girls are turning red
                              Singing all the black girls are black tanks