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Domicile
And the furniture was in the room But his hands, too tired to move Icons cast pitiful judgement As their eyes follow you It’s what you choose A pre-nailed down being Half-naked, see the detail, that relief Comes flat packed, cast in brass And hungry, to your taste If only you could make him rise […]
Tarsier
I design the shade of dark To colour my prowl A garish street light chase Is no dignity of ending But acceptable when you’re still dry Dry Dry at night The ears to hear you better with The eyes to see you better with And my third finger It’s no surprise to find you here […]
Japanese silk
Chase the light at the right frequency Know it ain’t the sun, but fly A pin will show you To the man who knows some truths Orient his eyes, if your dust looks right You’ll bend light too And turn into his prize
Body admin
I hate I chase the taste Then it’s night already Managing borders, sovereignty Half intake, half time in waste Mostly water takes the space I wish I spent doing what transcends Instead of being stuck in body admin At least not taste for chaste But from bed, to bar, to fridge, to face We must […]
Feathers
Make a pillow of my ruffled feathers Til I’m cold and weathered Make a puzzle out of funhouse mirrors Til I recognise myself again I don’t want to shed the blood I don’t want more of this stuff I want to be the last animal And tar the branch at last Until we’re all too […]
Lenin was a mammal
Don’t go talking to robots Or eat mushrooms until you’re one Because the echo of everyone The informatic mitosis In a random amplified signal Is nothing but a borg psychosis
A love letter to the city
In a Sydney state of mind The roaches in the floorboards And the roaches in the streets Are scheming their lifestyle moves Crawling over well-appointed Painted-over switches and windows That won’t open to prove Nothin’ to the lords of our homes Now that I’m longer in the teeth Getting longer in the teats, bled dry […]
Cargo 200
A swansong of limbs on a grainy TV But the ghosts of idealism Wrestled their way in via private interests All fat cats now, but friends with the rats And the rest of us, in cargo 200 May we all watch Swan Lake once more Until the end of time And see how their skirts […]
Flower boys
And after he was planted in the ground Just like a tulip bulb War broke out and his value rose up To push the daisies out It takes printed usurps To make a dead man work so hard From beyond the grave like that
Too late
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 […]
Pippi
Hey Pippi Longstockings I could hang my coat on that nose With those stories I won’t ask where those golden bars Of yours came from Or when the old monkey of yours Last showered
Blue note girl
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 […]
Millenial
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 […]
Property ledger
Split up into little duos Two against the world Into atomic kin Don’t have too much fun Or think Because unstable orbits Might give people ideas
Shadows on the wall
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 […]
All American divorce
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
Rani, rana ranitsa
Рани, рана, раница Зима идва бързо Но лято ще е студно също В тоз прокълнат мръз Сняг ще пада Само в младост Сурвакари, сурва, сурват Зима идва бързо С багажа, който нося От студен вятър се обръщам
Ghosts of the machine
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 […]
Zero sum
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
The saw
I’ll give you a key To every room Roam where you like Except the one In which everything you touch Will look bloodstained In a certain light Won’t shine like gold Like the rest of these halls Certain things where “Let me explain” is not enough It must fit in a soundbite The survivors are […]
Shape
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 […]
Wood
Darlin’ I’m a many-ringed tree Divorced, but not from life I wear Santal 33 and you, Something with a ship on the bottle But in your face I see A wise smile and innocence Because you get to elect your corruption When mine was a mandatory subject
Shade of navy
With my instruments inside you I still can’t repair this ship in a bottle Much as I need to send it back into the ocean
Vesuvius
Ash clouds make their way inside Flash heat burns my eyes You fade away, but heat stays Turns my face to dust Turns my brain to glass When Minerva’s owl fails to arrive