Tuesday 25 June 2013

The Smile Sink


I'm a clinical psychologist, 
Specialising in narcissism within hyperspace, 
Where it's all about the first-person narrative: 
Where the photographer is the sitter; 
Where the smirking cat points at their litter.. 

                      and, Flash! 
Gong! 
The preemptive future-proof memory cache:
The show and tell.
But am I here,  
Where my asymmetric self-portraits hatch? 

Is the view only real through the unsleeping lens? 
Is anxiousness the motor of this super-saturated-self? 
Is our interior long and gone chained inside the always-on Panopticon? 

                   The contra-flow confluence - 
Everyone a million points of light. 
Most walk the glass-click-down in stop-gap time, 
Dappled in the shimmering gloom, skin-tight. 
Flex with the nearest vat of wine. 
Yeah, see, I'm looking fine.. 

You could delete that one, though, 
And..that one. 
I'll delete one too if you.. 

Remind me: how the hell am I again? 
How old am I? 
I wonder: how old should I be - here? 

The performer steals themselves for the cage. 
Tag the sage. 
Disconnect to share and engage - 
It's the only way. 
Watch the you-and-them. 
Everyone with earphones on. 
And all the eyes peel down the sounds leaking silence. 

            eat say day date data dated rate 
                     careful addictive sizzle 
                frazzled  

The Smile Sink - 
Don't blink. 
There's a lot to study in the meta of me-think. 
In the liminal smog pools the dawn patrols subject their objects - 
Take the tamarind hit from the gloaming ersatz. 

I'm a clinical psychologist, 
Specialising in narcissism within hyperspace, 
Where the photographer is the sitter. 
You can follow me on Twitter. 






Sunday 9 June 2013

A Benday Dot Haiku Zephyr Adrift Over An Empty Beach During An Eclipse


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Sunday 2 June 2013

Is Now A Good Time?


Is now a good time?

No?
Oh, so,
How about     dot    dot    now?
Or  dot        dot dot       dot
Now?

Well, that's three,
Now.
Any of them any good to go?
Any of them on the moment?

You say you like the second now?
Okay then.
So turn your watch back twenty seconds,
And we can be right there, again,
In that second, now, any second now.
dot dot   
   dot
Let's enjoy the full detail and texture,
Right now.

               in between the raindrops the rainbow hides

Oh, no..no..
Of course I don't mind.
I have time - 
And time..

Ready?
Any second now then..
And..here we go -
In your own time..

dot
          dot

Hmmm,
Yes, you're right,
This particular now feels...thud...so light.
How now I notice how did I never notice it passed me by,
Now I notice it passed me by?

..It's so silvery!

How it drifts, abandoned, by the sky,
Like a falling blue butterfly,
Tossed on the honeycomb stream,
Yet, the deep-sea slopes in dream.

Here now,
You are here, are here,
The feel - so soft and gossamer;
An mmmnness - nothing heavy;
A heavenly lightness deep.

Yes,
This now is a good time,
In between the raindrops, here.

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