Tag Archives: poetry

AS HARD AA YOU CAN

AS HARD AS YOU CAN

“I want you to hit me
as hard as you can”.
       Tyler Durden “Fight Club”

signed a contract
with the Devil
ratified
   in ink
signed in blood

this done gaily,
performed without reservation,
having entered into
so many contracts
with felines previously,
exacting dotted
line documents
selling
   my soul
to a cat

worst of all mammals
and yet how we
worship them

knew
   the Devil
would cheat me
           worse than any bank
or as
bad
   if not better

in terms of which
I did hereby agree
to kill
    countless fellow humans,
consent
   to destroy the world

or
stoop even lower
in terms of malign
sexual practices

you
     know how bad they be
measuring the evil
in terms
of the pleasure

and what,
    amongst these juicy crimes,
could
   be wrong with that?

SQUALL

SQUALL

oh these brutal
summer storms

full-on squalls
hot you full
on 360

whack you full frontal
stop you
dead
in your tracks

just a couple of hours ago
there you were
sweltering under
a cloudless sky

the Sun flash frying you
like you were getting
toasted
in a Bunsen burner

and now the rain hitting so hard
the hail big as golf balls
the weather
seeming so up
to shit

you wonder if the great powers
who should know
so much better
haven’t conspired or
contrived to
drop
the big one

every really big one
and all the others
no matter
how small
the size

summon a squall
enough
for us all

RAN OUT OF TIME

RAN OUT OF TIME

ran
out of time

for, as we well known,
time is sand
time is granules

time is not flow
it is
    by no means elastic
bent by
speed, bent by gravity

it is
   forever backdrop

and
   will carry on timing us
for all eternity

until you punch a hole
through the wall
to other
dimensions

let it all
flood in, all
that is within

blessed to find
the aperture created
by your dirty great
fusion bomb

ABOUT TIME

ABOUT TIME

spoke to the clock, my
wristwatch,
     a nuclear count
down
about time

they all gave me
different answers

which I took
to be proof of the pudding
that calls
      itself relativity

your and my time zones
so out
    of synch

the words stuttering, splutt-
ering across the page
begging
    for flow
                      flow to go
                    (about
time I say)

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