The aliens arrived and they read our DNA just like a book. They had no interest in our words. They sampled the oceans and its diseases, a pathology specimen from the self-destructive damsel of this solar system, an off-smelling primordial soup that has sat on the counter for too long, infested with small creatures who […]

So she ate a poison apple From the burning tree It embarked a strange flavour But that ain’t the story for me Even if my hair caught fire And smoke ran through the streets A woman’s desire is sometimes Just to have something to eat I won’t miss you If it takes over a month […]

So my blue note girl has met a man He’s promised her something She’s kissed him once, she’s dazed Says she feels a connection with him Man, I guess that’s convection for you. I’m not hurting, but need to untangle That knot in my throat when you tangled my tongue with yours Spend another night […]

So I’ve been taught since the 90s to clear my plate So now dessert feels like work, after 3 burnt chops Before these non-deterministic magic boxes, we were Just mechanical turks with calculators Monkeys who knew how it all worked Before the rest of you forgot Who wrote frameworks weaving Machines we could control We […]

It’s all shadows on the wall ’til their legs stop to shake Pocket contents falling Breaking, lemon wedge unbitten This didn’t match the brief When we emerged from the sea The pupa unwraps Cicada crawls Disappointment sets Imagine how this feels for them No sheets, no ropes No umbilical cord No tie on the door […]

Retarded orange shepherd’s golden toilet Has seen more secrets than it keeps Black-hatted white sheep milked for his green sheets Black-eyed, Tweets: Whatever happens, we have got the spaceships, and they do not

To design the architecture of our ruins And decide the colour of their bike shed We are the ghosts of the machine Sorted into blue, red, yellow or teal Not knowing if what we see is manufactured Or if it’s real, because it was too far away To travel and see for ourselves On the […]

In a world where secrets Cohabit with a gilded thinking chair Digital twins. Animals and saints. Drinking each other’s water Until too many of us lead To there being nothing left

You see, it’s in the compression Word girdles shape the story The terminus of sentences Keep it short and sweet Because now it’s all quite dull And even boring But when we’ve perfected yesterday You can make your mind up faster It takes too long To explain Wait to see The final product It’s still […]