Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
These verses were created using only recycled words that have been used before by others
I visit the recycling bins
To clear myself from cluttering things
There’s three bins there for types of glass.
Clear, green, brown: all gonna smash.
Cardboard, plastic, paper, shoes,
Computers that’ve had their use,
Mobile phones and old paint tins
All in the recycling bins.
I wonder sometimes where it goes
This stuff that doesn’t decompose.
To furnaces to be re-fired
And use again as is required
Or sterilised and filled once more
Or shredded up and pulped before
A life as fertiliser, oh
I wonder sometimes where it goes
There was a hoo-ha here once,
A story that went on and on.
Some supermarket, went the drama,
Was plastic-wrapping its bananas.
The world’s gone bonkers, headlines cried,
The yellow bit protects inside.
The media felt it terribly wrong
The hoo-ha that was here once.
These days we’ve got those magic bins
They try and cover everything
There’s one for clothes, for batteries
For rubble and for Christmas Trees
But they don’t got one for my brain -
I’ll take that bastard home again -
My pickled kidney, knackered liver,
My bloodshot eyes, my nighttime shiver,
My off-beat heart, my aching limbs
Just don’t fit in the magic bins.
But when I die, I won’t be lost;
Bury me naked: Joe-compost
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Another lost scroll
1.
There was a seer and his
name was called DD.
2.
DD went unto the Camp of
the Romans.
3.
He climbed to the summit
thereof.
4.
He turned his head and
could see the straits of Menai.
5.
Beyond that was the island
of Mona,
6.
Where lived the Druids.
7.
And beyond that was the sea
of Eire.
8.
He turned his head once
more.
9.
And he saw the city,
10.
The castle of Pen-Rhyn,
11.
The mountain of Bangor,
12.
The distant land of
Penmaenmawr,
13.
Beyond that Llandudno
14.
Where the Tory People
lived.
15.
He saw the snow-capped
mountains
16.
And he addressed it all.
17.
He said:
18.
“Behold, ye who seek the
ways of the Lord,
19.
Ye who seek to understand
thy Lord,
20.
And that bloke over there
with the Border Collie sniffing a tree root.
21.
Note well the path of the
Lord.
22.
Look at his footsteps
23.
And the places he hath
trod.
24.
Behind him is there tumult?
25.
Hath he set fires amongst
the unworthy?
26.
E’en now are there teams of
paramedics
27.
And fire marshalls trying
to clear up his mess?
28.
Hath he been smiting again?
29.
I say unto thee:
30.
This is not metaphor by the
way,
31.
He really is a bit of a sod
sometimes
32.
When he doesn’t get his own
way.
33.
This is the path of the
Lord.”
34.
The seer whose name was
called DD continued
35.
To address the city
36.
The castle
37.
The mountain
38.
The distant land
39.
The Tory People
40.
And the bloke with the dog
41.
Which now was having a
dump.
42.
He said:
43.
“Note too the future path
of the Lord.
44.
Doth he have followers
already ahead
45.
Preparing his bread and
meat to eat
46.
And wine to drink?
47.
Or is the Lord on one of
his fads
48.
And has decided that meat
is somehow ungodly
49.
And all who eat thereof
will be burnt
50.
Or some other kind of odd
punishment?
51.
Doth his followers now
prepare
52.
Strange sausages
53.
From the land of Quorn?
54.
This is the future path of
the Lord.”
55.
DD continued to testify
56.
To the city
57.
The castle
58.
And all that.
59.
He said:
60.
“Is the Lord in chariot?
61.
Has his chariot caused a
tailback
62.
From the traffic lights
63.
By Lidl
64.
E’en unto the ill-advised
65.
Asda, which was built
66.
On the holiest of grounds?
67.
Doth Asda not have the
worst roundabout
68.
Thee hast ever seen?
69.
Truly this is a disaster
70.
Waiting to happen.
71.
This is the roundabout of
the devil.”
72.
DD addressed the city
73.
And the yadda yadda yadda.
74.
He said:
75.
“Look ye carefully at the
shadow
76.
Of the Lord
77.
For therein walk the evil.
78.
By their closeness to the
Lord
79.
They will claim authority
80.
To make laws
81.
To conquest
82.
They will claim to speak
83.
For the Lord
84.
In all things.
85.
And yet because they are in
his shadow
86.
He cannot see them to
condemn
87.
Or to condone.
88.
These people are truly the
worst
89.
Of the lot,
90.
Which takes some doing
91.
But there you go.
92.
Believe not these people
93.
Their rituals
94.
Their cross-dressing
95.
And for some reason
celibate
96.
Leaders.
97.
They speak not for the Lord
98.
But for themselves.
99.
The problem is that the
Lord
100.
Seems to be a bit shy
101.
And doesn’t say much
102.
Which is a bit of a pain
103.
And causes a few problems.
104.
This is the way of the
Lord.”
105.
And then the bloke
106.
Whose dog was now chasing
107.
Some kind of invisible
rabbit
108.
Spake unto DD.
109.
He said:
110.
“Stranger, I mark thy
words.
111.
But why should we trust
thee?
112.
Where is the Lord of which
you speak?
113.
Are we not all in his
shadow?
114.
You know,
115.
Metaphorically-speaking.
116.
Were you talking literally
117.
Or not?
118.
Seriously mate, I’m not
having a pop
119.
But it’s only going to
muddy the waters
120.
Innit?”
121.
But DD did not answer
122.
For it had started to spit
a bit
123.
With rain
124.
And e’en at that time he
had found sanctuary
125.
At the Inn of the Beautiful
View
126.
And was drinking the wine
thereof
127.
Which was called Rioja Reserva.
Tuesday, 13 January 2015
Men
There are men
Usually men
Mostly men
Not always men
They have guns
Sometimes bombs
Occasionally chemicals
And often nuclear devices
These men
Mostly men
Sometimes women
But that’s exceptional
Have strange thoughts:
Someone is out to get me
Someone else is offending me
The Others Don’t Understand
They must pay
I am right
I have the right
They must pay
Then They Will Understand
Not to offend me
Not to try and get me:
These are their thoughts.
There are intellectuals
Amongst us living
Who say, again,
Again and again,
That this rush to reprisal
Is ineffectual
Right or wrong
It’s simply fun
For beastly men
Hopeless men
Horrible men
To play again.
There are men
Usually men
Mostly men
Not always men
They look up
Sometimes look down
Prostrate themselves
And ask for guidance
These men
And women too
Pray for forgiveness
After the event
Spiritual thoughts like:
The devil is in these people
Their lifestyle offends me
They Will Receive Thine Wrath
I will help
Them see right
By force of right
I will help
They Will Feel My Wrath
Their lifestyle is ugly
The devil will be cast out:
These are my spiritual thoughts.
Heaven-sent
This force of righteousness
From me, to you
And then
Your life sentence
Death in itself
Will throw you down
And chew you up.
These beastly men
Evil men
Deranged men
Just play again.
Am I a man?
Where do I stand?
To be a man?
To have life planned?
I have no book
Commandment free
No magic friend.
All I see
Is me. A man?
I don’t understand
A life prescribed,
Destiny planned.
I have thoughts like:
What am I missing?
Perhaps those men are correct
Perhaps I am missing
Something important
Maybe they’re right
To have the right
To be important
To talk not to listen
To stand, proud and erect
To have a mission:
These are my thoughts.
But I, a man,
I have survived
These barren years, unplanned
Just as a man.
Just as me.
Some good friends.
No demands on me,
A boy. A man.
These words of sand
Are all I can
Offer this land:
I am.
I am.
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