Long Perspex Poems

Another shift ends. I'm dead on my feet.
Too shagged to even eat.
The word leads (inevitably) to you...
I slipped the timesheets from work today.
Another incident occurred...
Sweetie, please be there, and say you care.
I loved working alongside...

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Dirk was educated to a very high degree
But there was no career for as far as the eye could see
Finally he took a part time job just as a start 
And now he was Retriever...

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 Mi Amigo

Flying Fortress Mi Amigo Remembrance
 Mi Amigo

It happened in the year nineteen forty-four
Ten young lives from that day were with us no more
Flying a B17 bomber plane
A ten-man crew “Mi Amigo” her name
Returning...

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'I don't want to burn...'

Otto flew onwards.
It was a joyous flight. 
Then trouble hit again. 
His other worst fear. 
Engine failure!
	
Must land.
Where where where?
Altitude has gone.

Trees are so close.
Wrong place to crash!
Touching close.

Want to close...

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'I don't want to burn...'

Otto flew onwards.
It was a joyous flight. 
Then trouble hit again. 
His other worst fear. 
Engine failure!
	
Must land.
Where where where?
Altitude has gone.

Trees are so close.
Wrong place to crash!
Touching close.

Want to close...

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Pt 1

Far out, they cried
when I stood on cinders,
feet combusting,
like it was clever;
even though water
sprinkled the joint,
coals sizzled,
flesh melted, spat;
chunks of sinew,
popped like corn.
Timbers smoked,
glowed like hell;
arms blackened, curled
crossed over chests.
I’m burning, I told
the voices,
need...

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From within the perspex booth, he flirtily inquired
 if my day so far had been fulfilling 
Duty of filling two reusable bags with thirty items
Didn't stop my silly line from spilling
"Certainly, yes - it's fulfilling...

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The Wind howls and the rain pours onto the Perspex sheeted roof
The rain seems to be chasing me as if trying to find proof
Proof that this day has finally arrived with no escape route in...

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Bitter Lemon Woman

In sarcastic egos, you’ve cornered the market.
A self-important peasant, a show off bourgeoisie
Without compassion, a bitter lemon woman.

A twisted tongue, a controlling snake
A liar, a betrayer and a tortured soul
A pathetic vein of...

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She's a pack-up and lander,
Like the geese and the gander,
She's a Roma,
On her own-a,
In a two wheeled house,
Involved with no weak willed spouse,
O honey! I've no money but I would be your mouse!
Snow White, fibre...

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Space Shot

If I were a scientist I'd build a massive gun
To blast myself beyond the moon and then beyond the sun
I say the sun but it’s a star, our closest so I'm told
But I would...

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‘Twere a foolish youth indeed
that ne’er his parents’ voice would heed.
“We hear you’re courting Mary Lue.
Dump that flirt, what e’er you do!
Once you’re wed, she’ll run you down.
Her name is known throughout the town.”

Alack! O...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uqZhnqHMAg


The orchestra strains to be symphonic --- a bee in a tin box.
Cigar smoke thunders, molecules of sound wilt
only to be dialed up through brass lungs.
The combo is quaintly upholstered, a classic sports car
driven by...

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My eyes are sutured 
can feel the threads,
I stitched them together 
stoned out of my head,
Seemed like a good idea, 
or so my friends said,
Glue would have been better,
now I can only see red. 

My...

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Menacing silence fills the air
All is still nobody moves
Darkness covers all the land
Only dim lights penetrate the gloom

Yet within this void four men sit
Awake yet silent awaiting a call
To start moving at a frightening pace
Together...

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MOORSIDE MEMORIES

The years pass by but the memories are the same now as just then,
from racing down the ski slope on perspex to stoning the buses,
these were mental teenage days of mischief.
local pubs provided a...

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I told the paper seller outside the train station
of your birth that day
he wasn't interested, 
but I knew the truth of it
It had been a hard night for your mother
a storm of pain, of emotions...

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Like many of us I met my mother
after the incubator stopped recording my early history.
When the blinking red light winked out
and the Perspex lid lifted off like an alien wing,
hands larger than the only world...

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Following the first thwack
we deduced that distance was
limited primarily
to unpredictable bursts of anger,
arbitrary chastisement factors.

The rule, all of its dozen commandments
plus the extra uncalibrated ends -
a fixed length, extended sufficiently
to bruise well beyond
its mere twelve...

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