Friday, 21 October 2011

Cascading It Down To Teamzero


So on she floated on gears of again
Spirit Guiding upside-down her dream-catchers lobbing asteroids..
..and our senior manager has just been promoted to HR..

We perked up blank on that
Our corrective milling scrum in unibrow raising zing-nills UberMind
Cute and in tempo and Ego neo-spiritualized
HimalayanWe-aura ascending
Our Teamzero collective armour kerchinging
SoulConsciousnessYetis We-of-Us

Anya trilled
Senior manager?
We..we've ne-ver had a senior manager..
In organic tofu silence its sinews slaying octopusly
Like blame-charades during another Valentine anniversary dinner
Uncertain her face net-curtained the mini earthquake
As EQ mystic bingo equations deliquesced
She gurgled a name mooning her eyelash-Stone-Henges all Princess Diana mooey
Eric?
Don't you remember when he came down to meet you all to say hello? ?
Again the hello key rising in Questionstatement Australian Soap Star Jazz Scale 4/4tm
Or like Delirium's grim angel paramedic-hello hello? hello? can you try to squeeze my hand?
The monitored casualty's thimble-sipping concave breath-streams brain-ashtraying below
Definitely so..


No..

..not dead -


Yet but you know..no promises

All beautifically dribbled up and ready to fry in the next shocking episode of
Dentists
..so join us again same time tomorrow - minus twenty-five minutes or so - for the corpsing of Dennis's death-bed-confessional..

DoNGDoNGdONgDoNG
And
Welcome to the same time tomorrow
So now it's..

Dentists (!)

..so I stole lucy's guinea pig? i was so angry
she should never have done that to Me




how dare she..she build that blasted brick wall right outside our pond?


is it any wonder our goldfish were so confused like that..?..


..like they could hardly breathe?


you saw them choking? right? gran?


that's why they all had anaemia before they croaked? their lack of oxygen mentalled-out their brainstems..




aauuaauhgran gran toby..i...i... can feel myself going? like? very dead again..?


oahh denny no.!!


..ii..iit's too late..gran toby..gran tobyy..??

Den-tists..everyone needs good den-tists..
Everyone needs den-tists..even if you all have teeth
Den-tists..everyone needs good den-tists
.They. Could. Be. You. Or. Meee..

Yeah said Bob like you say he came by and said hello
But he never said why he said hello
It was just hello as in hello
NotHi I'm saying hello because I'm your senior manager here is my face for you to drillerkilldartboard
Her fish eyes dilated like origami belisha beacons slighting yellow snow
Then she recovered her composure eleven-tenths nubile conflict managemently
Anyway
He's popping by later just to say..uh..
Haha..Goodbye..
Can you believe..?Goodbye or
I'm saying goodbye as in
Hello-I-was-your-senior-manager-goodbye?
She baffled her eyelashes

So who's our senior manager now?
Felix. He'll send us a message

..Message?..Send??
He's less face-to-face than Eric?
He's really hot on not face-to-facing himself?
Her eyes drifted towards an out-of-place fire extinguisher musing it like a tarot card
..and fire extinguishers should not prop open fire doors not even in the event of a real fire let alone a simulated one..uh..
Then shrugging her triangulating shoulders
Different senior managers have different styles..?
We'll adjustOne of us stated
Closure
She salt-planed her saline smile





Sunday, 2 October 2011

The Barren Spring (Riot App)


The off-licences smash-grab-trashed by lads on-the-lash;
The trainers google-map-flagged by flash-mob-Olympians dancing-the-dash;
The electronics stores ping-hash-tagged, uploaded, cache-cashed;
The neighbours' cars stone-smack-bashed, gutted - or stashed and moustached;
The newsagents papier-mache-mashed into sachets of ash;
The takeaways tandoori'd, soupcon'd and charcoal grilled with pyrotechnical panache..

And no -
No one wanted papadums with that..

The clothing arcades hosted giveaway-and-getaway negligees down alleyways;
The chemists' sprayed bouquets of Michael Faraday's more laissez faire protegees;
The baby stores pitched tearaway mum scrums,
Supplementing their love-handle ass-cracking bingo-wing oven buns,
Gravity rippling burning Rome lite relay-marathons,
Husain Bolting the chiffon,
Manning the futons,
Sending encrypted smiley emoticons,
Up and down,
Up and down,
Up and down,
Hitting home-run home runs,
As on-call baby dads GPS riot app'd,
Flooring time like neutrinos,
Tearing up the dual carriageway,
Giggling fiddling Nero's..
Yeah, it was ok;
It was all child's play..
And the Arabs who couldn't be blamed for this, rejoiced,
Hey hey..

And,
After the fire,
As volunteers vacuumed on tv with bling-brooms,
And brickbatologists cling-fumed in chatroooms,
A photographer, disbelieving, swung-zoomed on a strange bloom:
For there, through the smoke, through the clearing,
That spurned wallflower loomed:
Another book shop -
Perfectly unconsumed.



Monday, 26 September 2011

Speculation


After everything is gone -
Should the speculators speculate on Love -
Would their God become our slave?



Friday, 23 September 2011

Rain And Umbrellas


Snake flowing floes of waterborne umbrella skins,
Beat to the rainfall teeming her tabla thumbs.
Cloud strewn streets dehumdrumed drum.

Aeons flash by caterpillar,
Cleopatra - thanks for dinner;
Mashed potato, balloons and mango,
A dreamy trifle,
An eyelash tango.

Treetops wobble,
A rain splash down,
A glimmer full of sky gleams,
The clotted cream crown.

The sunset echo abloom;
Rippling puddly platters,
Reflect a sparkling dusk-light,
On the dappled marching dragons.


Saturday, 17 September 2011

Slave To The Upgrade


As I turn the parchment of my electronic book -
A sensual glade,
Of scentless plastic..


Wednesday, 14 September 2011

The Stark Blossom


Her love lost,
She slips away,
Silhouettes gleam moon shadow.

Blue eyes burn broken;
She leans her head back against the wall ~
Turns around,
As lunar trees rustle the cover for her delicate steal-away.

A last look back.
His bed now..
His bed now..
In-breath, deep, deep, shallow.

In-breath, shallow.
Places keys,
Resting, date-stamped,
On the newspaper in the hall.
Turn the page.

Enfolding cruel lament:
Let me out of this place.. - Sold.
Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark.
Let me out of this place;
Just open the door,
And walk the corridor,
And down these stairs..


And the outside lights of the dark unveil,
The stark blossom,
The unnatural world.
The traffic milling swashing rain revives her.
She weeps a lonely relief.
And she glows,
Like a frozen rose,
Thawing under the sunlight of the moon.
Her reflection warms the oblong aspects of glass and steel;
The cold statues ignite in flames.



Sunday, 11 September 2011

Ten


So Happy Anniversary to you,
War On Terror,
For you are ten-years-old today!

And what special events are you planning to surprise us with,
On this auspicious occasion?

Think -
Soon you will be a teenager,
(God help us).

Please,
Wouldn't you like to swap this football in return for our souls?
They were only meant to be borrowed for a little while you know.
We miss them,
And we'd like you to return them back to us please,
Kinder, gentler..
No, not in that way.

And,
Please,
Never, again.
Okay?


Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Polite Notice Blues



The low-level absurdity of quantum thoughtlessness,
Luridly displayed,
At the tea-point


Polite Notice:
Do not leave your dirty dishes or used cutlery in the sink.


(Another) Polite Notice:
To avoid blockages,
And flooding,
Please rinse your dishes before placing them in the dishwasher.
                                                 ThankhyphenYou.


And here she comes,
The senior manager,
Gifting the floor (four) her honeysuckle bloated cadaver infusions,
Organic;
Her muesli dregs gluey,
Satanic;
Bathing with toxic used tissues,
Bubonic;
She catches my silent musing leakage harmonics:
"Something wrong?"
And my hyperbolic bottles it,
Something chronic.



Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Green On Red-Eye


The expanding desert flows below,
The eco-tourist mirage..

Thursday, 18 August 2011

Cracked Symbols


the cracked string-bead spaghetti throng swirls bedazzled
bedraggled and comically wretched
a mournful shimmer around cartoon candles
huddling in the gloaming gloom
unragged and healthy
the hum of the crayon-prayer-faithful numb
their pagan-bling makeshift memorial
an installation art totem
as delicate as graffiti sold on the shopping channel
bottles of vodka nestle with silver spoons and opened cartons of cigarettes
and suffocating garage forecourt flowers clinging for dear life
inside their unopened cling-film shallow grave
attached felt tip fly-tipped post-it-sentiments
words you are so mist
words YOU'RE NOT DEAD YOU'RE A STAR!!
words xxx Luv Lucy
words we mourn your loss 4u etc
from across the road she circles her own mind for a clue to theirs
as this dead girl sings of rehab from a tinny mobile phone speaker
rendering her soundwaves disembodied
her sonic angel feathers crash land a last bow r.i.p cashback
as Rapunzul's saturn return death dances
into her vaporised tower of ringtone sorrow
bemused walking away she muses
- oh the irony
they're offering up as symbols of devotion the very paraphernalia that killed her
- what a way to go and what a way to be remembered
then she makes the sign
as she nervously touches her pendant
of the cross

Monday, 8 August 2011

Keyboard Commando


He draws the fine line between hate and hate -
He's a keyboard commando.
Swirling eyes catheterise incontinent flamer rage -
She's a keyboard commando.

The spurned saturnine misanthropes,
The atheist/God brigades,
The grandad rock fascismos man
their onanist hive-brained barricades.
The CAPS LOCK attack-dogzillas,
The green crayon font glocalistas.
They're all keyboard commandos.
The zoilist cannibal synthesis;
The psycho-stalker metamorphosis.

Take half an ounce of thought,
A nanosecond of self-reflection,
A quark of empathy,
A sliver of good intention,
A tonne of self-righteousness,
A big ol' tent of me and me -
The bravado swamp thrills,
Rabid gazelles on kill,
Shelling from the craven caves of anonymity.
It's Munch's Scream upstreaming in the polyglot argot
of keyboard commandos.

Lying poet songsmiths:
So we're really all the same?
Oh yes -
We're churning in one big boiling cauldron world -
A world of keyboard commandos.

Monday, 1 August 2011

Snooze Button


Seconds before I must fall back awake,
To drizzling dreaminess uneasily I sling-shot
my flimsy detaching spiral.

The Snooze Button - a praying mantis.
And I cannot shake away its silent countdown,
The temp-deafened digital laughter.

My eyes - as sore as Romeo's;
A salted ochre sea star Guanatanamo.

And, in dream, the snooze button pounces,
Like The News At Ten:
Yodel-dong:
"Tonight: The World's End.."
Dong.
"Golf"
Dong.
"No more weather - ever"
Dong.

Snooze button,
Snooze button,
You gift me only lucid, anxious nightmares;
Your sonic rainbow rays pour
primary colours liquid concrete grey,
Coal, charcoal, ash,
Municipal car park green,
Institutional padded cell cream,
And asbestos marine.

Snooze button,
Snooze button,
I hope no one dedicates a poem to you.

Snooze button,
In five minutes time,
You'll press my button again.

A flaying embrace of flailing sunlight,
As golden as swaying moles at the stroke of midnight.

Snooze button,
You spill through my eyes you salt plain sorcery,
Enticing wishful mirages of dreaming drowning.