Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Five-A-Day Magic Mushooms


The bulbous deep, deep, emerald magic mushrooms no longer looked so magical,
Not for a long time.

He'd been "borrowing" them from next door's back-garden
(when they were asleep at night),
for around four years or so now.
Church goers too!
He smiled: You can never tell by looking at people:
Church goers growing magic mushrooms!

And for four years he's smoked them,
Snorted them,
Curried them,
Even boiled them once -
Like a vegetable,
And they tasted absolutely vile when cooked.
Bleeugh!

But did they transport him to the sitar-reverb realms of Nirvana;
Strings plucked by Buddha, Krishna, Hendrix?
Uh no. No they didn't.

These so-called magic mushrooms,
Never, ever, opened any Huxleyan Doors of Perception,
Rhapsodies of Eternal Light never danced hypnotically behind his third eye,
Or even his two ordinary ones for that matter.

At one with Creation? Never!
No angels ever sang,
Or higher beings telepathically communicated.
His dead pet cat never returned as The Sphinx.
No messages from beyond the grave ever offered direction or wisdom,
or mystical revelation;
Secrets he would then delightfully share with this philistine wasteland.

So he resolved never to touch these over-rated fungi again.
He walked to his garden bin,
And threw them all away - for the last time.
The last time ever.
"I'll stick to supermarket cider from now on.."

He closed the lid and walked back in thoroughly dejected,
Kicking a defenceless garden gnome by the porch door.

His next door neighbour watched him from their bedroom window.
"Sue, come here, Look at this!
The cheek of it!
He's been stealing our broccoli for four years,
Now he's throwing it all away,
And he's just kicked his garden gnome!
He told me he's a Buddhist Druid.
What kind of Buddhist Druid steals broccoli and attacks garden gnomes?"




Saturday, 9 April 2011

The Ingerland Statue Of Liberty - The Unveiling Ceremony


Jerusalem.
England.
The Ingerland.

Princess Diana,
A neon glow-stick raised,
Arcing ten-to-two,
Her robot arm sways,
No moving parts,
No moving parts,
Huddled masses mexican wave.

Ingerland. Ingerland. Ingerland.

Don't knock it:
It's good for tourism.




Monday, 4 April 2011

Before The Watershed News, April 4th 2011 (Swearing in the Name of)


Headlines:
Carnage in the Ivory Coast,
War in Libya,
Drowned refugees off the coast of Tunisia,
And,
Near nuclear meltdown in Fukushima.
You may find some of these very graphic images disturbing..

And next:
Footballer controversy:
Swearing into the camera!

We have edited out
his cheeky behaviour,
And his naughty words.



Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Airbag Man


I'm delighted to inform you,
Your great grandchild,
Will be,
Airbag Man!
The Airbag Man!

Aren't you proud?



Saturday, 26 March 2011

Back In The Day


I remember,
Remember way back in the day,
We never used to say,
"Back in the day",
Back in the day.


Friday, 18 March 2011

Big Society Anthem


Big Society,
Big Custard,
Big Data,
Big Message,
Big Garden Gnomes,
Big Goldfish.

I really think we can do it,
I believe and hope we really can.
We've done it before!

Big Society,
Big Hard-Working Families,
Big Complex Carbohydrates,
Big Eyelashes,
Big Penance,
Big Crayons.

Big Words,
Big Astrologicals,
Big Solutions,
Big Tents,
Big Reality,
Big Dialogue.

So,
Here we go again,
One more time now,
One more time.
Hope you're joining in at the back,
I can see your smiles from here!
Good,
So here we go,
One last time now,
And,

Big Society,
Big Muslims,
Big Plant Pots,
Big Organic Goats,
Big Car-Share,
Big Sandwiches.
(I mean really big!)
Ha! Ha!
I knew you'd like that last one;
Those really big sandwiches..

Thank you so..

And,
You can sit down now,
You can sit down again,
No you really can sit down,
I'm not even joking.

Thank you.

Tuesday, 15 March 2011

Passing Commuter


Why was she staring at me,
With that look,
With that look of wistful wonder in her eyes?
As her train pulled away I realised,
She was dreaming deeply in her reflection.


Sunday, 13 March 2011

But..


She's deleted her profile;
Her whole profile - completely,
Period.
I mean like totally.

So, you know,
We did the usual;
Tried to stop her:
Are you sure?
Are you sure?
She kept clicking Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
You could almost feel the exclamation mark on your face!

So after three attempts,
We let it go,
We let her go.
Her. It. Whatever.

She's completely deleted her account with us.

But,
Tadaa!
We haven't.
No, like that would happen!

We'll do the usual:
E-mail her every now and again:
Hey we're still here bitch!
You know, just to show her who's boss:
We're still fuckin' here! Hellooo!

I mean seriously,
Who the hell do these people think they are?
Like that ancient song goes:
"You can check out,
But.."



Thursday, 10 March 2011

Desert Storm Dawn


Twenty-somethings are going to bingo,
While sixty-somethings are making "real porn",
Such is the magical opening of the twenty-first-century:
The dawn of the ass-backwards unicorn.




Tuesday, 8 March 2011

Spoiler Alert *


* This poem contains a spoiler alert,
So if you don't want to know what happens in the rest of this poem,

Please look away now.

When this poem is finished I will let you know.

Five, four, three, two, one.

This poem is now finished.

Thank you for reading.






Sunday, 6 March 2011

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Monday, 28 February 2011

Facility



Dear Sir/Madam,

It has been brought to our attention
mmmmmmThat you have been overutilising your overdraft facility
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Our commitment to responsible lending
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bbbbbbbbResponsibly.

bbbbbbbbbbDue to ongoing liquidity issues
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nnnnnnnnnnnnnWe are sadly
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ithdrawing this facility from you
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbLLLLLLLLImmediatelyRight now. Right fucking now.


Please rest assured
xxWe may wish to offer an overdraft facility to you again
xxxxProbably
ccccccIn your case
ccccccccIn the far-off distant future
aaaaaaaaaaWhen you stop behaving like an absolute cunt
b aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaYou cunt.

Sorry to swear like this
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Should you have any concerns that
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nnnnnnISBecause we are withdrawing this facility from you immediately
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mmmmmmmmmmmBecause
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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm kkWe enjoy a good laugh
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Yours fucking sincerely then,


Customer Services Advisor