FALTERED
his fingers faltered
that one
writing the script
and so best sibling
stepped into
replace him
but that one
not
weaned
the same
was of outlook
whole different genre
and so the dream
disappeared, we
became awake
congratulated ourselves
on
the end
of the fiction, red
pill reality
but it was
embedded level
of dream
and
move into nightmare
AT A STADIUM IN LAS VEGAS
the apparition of those Niner faces
in the stadium
blotches
red and white and gold
running on empty
desperate for dopamine
FEEDBACK
“and so cold”
William Carlos Williams
just want to say
you wrecked
my night
my day
my week
my month, my year
my death
my life
playing
like that
coaching like that
do you
not know?
is it not
amongst the so
many things
you do
not know?
MAGWINYA
do i want
to eat
your magwinya?
well, sugar,
pop the lot
in my mouth
hot
from the oil
and to keep
the Celcius and
Fahrenheit
seriously up there
soaring
everywhere
let’s go to town
with seconds and chilli
crazy red pods and
green eyed demigods
seem to have come
from the heart of
Sirius
core of Betelgeuse
magwinya: South African fast food: deep fried dumplings eaten with a hot vegetable relish and polony
KANSAS GEORGE AND
THE FLYING MONKEY
Hello George
I am
also
George
funny about that
isn’t it
George
people might call it
a coincidence
but there
are no
coincidences
where are
we George?
are you the blue fairy?
are we
both red fairies?
are we
the munchkins
are we
in Kansas, in Oz
somewhere in the 60s
down
in Hait-Ashbury
carefree
and happy
enjoying
a summer of love
now
don’t go
wicked witch on me George
fall on that
ball all
serious
go total
flying monkey
jumping on that ball
as if it is not
all
just a game.
HELLO GEORGE
hello George
are we in Lyra
is this the star Vega?
good to see
you
we have.the same
name we
could be friends
cannot hear so well
from inside that thing
must be a
space helmet you
are wearing
red and yellow red
and gold we
are so brightly
coloured
this evening
and he you are
mumbling stuff about
yards and downs
and winning
turn overs
and not being
on Vega
but in Nevada
Las Vegas
and completely ignoring me
you have just
jumped on
the ball
BY NAME
Ah, water moccasin
what an ugly smelly
snake
you are
other pit vipers
think you
an embarrassment
feel
species shame
but rattler, bushmaster,
puff adder and copperhead
you kill them
stone dead with
the beauty
and truth of your name.
FISH SWAM
fish swam
for enthusiasm
though tiddler
to a Megalodon
ate one human
breezed rather playful
past
another
part of the regular
carcharodon
learning curve
(who would have thought
the white pointer
so agree
with Aristotle)
EDWARD
if you did write those plays
how wrenching for you
to have instantly disowned them
with the final word.on the page
and what words!
what words!
our best algorithms prove
them yours statistically
one by one
the pieces are found
and
begin to fit
together
and suddenly, quietly
we have
our mirror
plays lost to the man
man lost to the plays
SIX
sometimes
simplicity rules
so much practice until
instilled
becomes
embodied in
perfect delivery
and, talking of perfect,
in your hands
a dossier of
perfect plays
grandmaster chess puzzles
fail to
rival
in their brilliant complexity
but here
we have comedy
see epic antagonists
convulsed with laughter
suddenly the script has the
texture of absurd theatre
longer
than waiting for Godot
waiting for
Super Bowl six
poems 2 die for