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PEAKY DISTRICT

PEAKY DISTRICT,
(WAGON ROAD)

was watching
Alfie and Tommy,
Jew and Gypsey
butt gangster
heads
   navigating their way
through Oswald Mosley
visions of
a future that could not
be more pure

there is an Auschwitz there
somewhere buried
in the heart
zombie
         brain
   of every true
     self-devouring European

and my Mother
wanting to wash off every
connection
    to Wagon Road Northern working class
abject poverty

cannot let any
trace of Romany stain
those
   lily white sheets

and my father sometimes
coming over proto-Nazi
with neat, nice
line
  in anti- semiticism
(even TS Eliot
never plunged so far
     down into the Styx of
full-on
political unconscious)

and me here grinding ny teeth
as the syllables spit bullets

going full AK
full Molotov

bury me in red flag, crimson
shroud
    so close to the grave

on that beach Alfie and Tommy
caught up in some deeply
personal
     ideological cross-
fire

this
the street history we
were never taught in school

JOURNAL

JOURNAL

have lived
day to day
hand to mouth

for
all eternity

feel like I have
had to scrimp,
scratch and save

since
the beginning of time

and every birth
my tiny little eyes
sparkling
     with a glimmer
of another
hoped-for
Heaven

first wotds of mother tongue
putting a dark end to that

BREATHLESS WITHOUT BREATH

BREATHLESS
WITHOUT BREATH

got no Elon
Musk starship

no Colorado Mountain
bunker with
all the mod cons

so let
the bombs fall
missiles zero in

let my self split into
muliples like
every heavy
metal atom
under the Sun

who cares
if the system burns
the towers collapse

not me
    nothing got to lose
as indifferent as
the darkness
    of the Universe, to
how
  the dice fall, what
comes about

the life of all those digital
billions of
pure
    civilization

gets flashed, windstormed
burnt to ash