Author Archives: Damian Garside

SWEET

SWEET

good day
to die

day to die
with whipped cream
and sweet
   red cherry on
the top

and perfect cherry blossoms
for you too
   my lords Oda and Katsimoto
you see them
from our world of pain
as seppuku
takes you
     across the river
through the veil

and extra scoop
of fudge ice cream for all
who turned up
for the wake

sweet fudge caramel
ice cream

cold as a glacier
        have to
stall
   here at this place
this moment

as words
freeze

THE WAY LOVE GOES

THE WAY LOVE GOES

hey Janet
love your song
and the collective
love vibe
with all your
boos in your
video

girl are you not
Isis or Aphrodite
or some
    such thing

uncanny how you remind me
of my first love, also Janet,
my best
friend, arch rival
simply stole away
from me

all those years ago
      but when you singing
looking so
so uncannily like her

I know you singing
just for me

CHANCE

CHANCE

spied you
playing with dice

betting as you were
against the cosmos

maybe
it would be better
to play with fire

sad to see you lost
sad to
    tell everybody

something to do
with cursed sequence
and bad fractals

I know this
been there
done that

watched from my
fiction of a promontory
as everything ran
down
    hill from here
Valentino Rossi
popping a wheelie
in sixth gear

thought
  I could have
another go     another throw

by unanimous consent
agree to reconsider

last last chance
        the dice so obviously
heavily loaded
ninety-nine
     times out of
a hundred to
cast snake eyes