CLEAR

CLEAR

it is the cracks and crevices
that one must probe, be eager
to peer into

willing to follow to
whatever logical conclusion
it lead to, even if this
be a crevasse

or deep marine trench
such as some
oceans be renowned for

and here I am
in that liminal space
between parking
lot and Mall
snacking on Sushi
as I stroll towards
a fast food joint

no need
to name them, they are
a household word

and there in a crack in
the new pavement
a leaf green
grasshopper
minus
  a few legs getting
swept up
by a broom

same green that be as
the Kawasaki racing green
of my old
cafe racer
motorcycle

such out of
   the everyday stuff
not difficult to
spot if
   you take
  a look.         can see

and me
always on the alert for
glitch in the program, mis-
quote
   in the subtext

the Zen of the mindful
from
    the stupor of
all that is
empty, hide bound and
mindless

razor edge thin, which
is why
   we stay clear

LIKE A BILLIONAIRE

LIKE AN BILLIONAIRE

I’m shopping
like a billionaire

the app
revolutionary
the benefits fabulous

am in a digital paradise
buying whatever
I desire
purchasing everything

bonds and stocks
trusts and shares

my house full to its limits
stacked floor to ceiling

rsilways, hotels, 
airports and harbours,
vast tracts
   of underdeveloped land

got me feeling like a billionaire
         carving up the world
on this
     unbelievable app
full
  of such radical potential

hundred dollar
sandwich
   as yet unbitten into

there to fix my hunger
should I get round to eat.

MURAKAMI

MURAKAMI
“you must have big rats
if you need Japanese steel”
                 Kill Bill, Volume 1

I read some Murakami
that we might
be on
the same page

if not
dance together
at least be able to
whistle
    the same
    tune

which I hear now
floating over old Edo

before
    it got firebombed to death
turned to ash

rose again as fresh colossus
spreading its fingers
into how
    we picture our world

GOLD STANDARD

GOLD STANDARD

you are
the gold standard

best
touchstone

asked for a handout
you chopped
       my head off

split
the atom

stole
several body parts

oh my staccato life subject
to this debt slavery

roll over credit
        what was     now
roll over
play dead
      or actually die

all for a few scrappy
coins in the offing
kind of
    smaller
     than atoms

and me
under such pressure to
edit down
    this poem

get it in tune, right tone
sufficiently complicit
in every single way

FRIDAY 13TH

FRIDAY 13th

it”s Friday 13th
St Jason”s Day
in September

so wear your
hockey mask children
you know you have to
deep down
want to

nothing like
slasher jump scare
to bring that
delight home

and this the message
that we telling
the monster exists
and he is
pretty much
indestructible

will
  keep on
coming into
the Universe ends

and even then
that might not stop him
something about
dear Mr Vorhees
precedes everything

was here
long before the idea
of safety
was even born

SQUARED

SQUARED

the Universe
likes circles

the Universe
is beholden
to ratios
and squares

speed
of light
squared

sixty
   four squares
in eight by
eight
light square
start e4 d4 nf3 c4
dark square
       alternating configuration
stop with
a hashtag

and
   let us not forget

square deal
square meal
      square shooter
square up

and all those squares:
Times, Red,
and Trafalgar

without which
   what would history be?

C & C LTD

C & C LTD.

playing chess
making love

knights
forking everything
on on the board

I think Cheech and Chong
as in my grandmaster stupor

Chong
   and Cheech

Chong
and Cheech

to know where I am endgaming
right now
need more
    smoke and mirrors

don’t want to Robin Williams genie myself
      into a series of explosive
moves
rebounding in
my face

need some of your C & C good stuff to
take
the edge off
my embarrassment

need to conserve, focus
direct
       until in sight,
within
touch I do get
to light the fuse

Oh
   let the joke not be too
much on me my darlings

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