THIS SPACE
writing in
a vacuum
writing
in a desert
writing in
deep space
what exercise in
futility this
has proven
to be
and
yet
the demon
that derives me
still
telling the world
watch this space
watch this space!
31 Monday Jul 2023
30 Sunday Jul 2023
REGIME
thank you
for letting me
insinuate myself
within you
it was
sweet
and left
me so very open
to the total expulsion
of self-doubt
so ruthless, commandeering
you show yourself to be
as you subjugate my
everything to
regime
of sweetness
30 Sunday Jul 2023
WINDOW
my body
is carbon compound
my soul
a steel sphere
when the window flew
open
escape seemed
to beckon
hope
fluttered near
but window was a fiction,
glass
an illusion
things that
mirror bounce
your
light
back at you
and there I am, see
myself
trawling the networks
for every kind of Sufi or Sage
who
holds the true
key
bears
witness to gnosis
my soul
a thing of circumference
exact
in its numbers, too
strange to explain
30 Sunday Jul 2023
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POMPEII
bet you your bottom sestertius
that someone that night fantasized
they had become Zeus
had become Vesuvius
but volcano is
law of Nature, feature of
geophysics
nothing to do
with the gods
so spicy all that art they dug up
from beneath the killer ash, slag of all
that magma
as if
these Romans on the zesty tip
of the whole peninsula
were daring the cosmos
to test them with fire
and fire we see
how careful the artsists were
to capture it
remind us that beneath the shield
of Empire
the art and decadence for
which
are lives are often
best kept secrets
around which,
behind closed doors, they
triumphantly thrive
not always the protection for which
the people must always pay dearly
Zeus
great Zeus with his special
love of mortals
yet again, and this time
for all time
caught flagrantly delicious
elsewhere,
Leda still wide-eyed, anxious,
waiting upon her swan
30 Sunday Jul 2023
30 Sunday Jul 2023
AND SO THEY GO
one plenty
six
and
twenty
something
Fibonacci
in the
air
where?
where
the Hell?
did she
tell you
that old story
’bout how
she seduced me?
got me
paralytica para-
linguistic
whilst slurping my
alphabet soup
dropping
drifting down into
her lap by
(you
guessed it)
parachute
delving
into her darkness
searching for
her logos, her true meaning
something more than the purely ordinary
there in
that meaning for me
30 Sunday Jul 2023
30 Sunday Jul 2023
RESPECT
want a
a jump
scare
to inject
some fear
into this poem
an Event Horizon
Kubrick
Shining
1977 Suspiria
Dario Argento-
type jump
scare
into this poem
jump you
out of
nowhere
scare you
so your brain
gets not
just rewired
but
high voltage
frazzled
thing jumping
you
unseen
from
space
off-
screen
or, Great Fucking
(Ridley)
Scott
bursting through
your chest
tiny Geiger
demon being
just wanting to perform
its own
Caesarian
sick of all that
stuff
inside
wanting to live
its alien life
wanting to spring
into being
but
not so fast
not so fast
you tell me
you got this
scare covered
are so
happy
so happy
you so happy
happy happy
there is
this fourth
wall
between us
wallwallwallwall
wallwallwallwall
wallwallwallwall
Oh really
a fourth wall!
so if
there is one in place
and it’s really really
how come
for the life of me
I can’t
even begin
to see it?
you obviously can’t see
me
see like Giger’s alien
I’m
already inside
I want a
a jump
scare
to inject
some fear
into this poem
get
some respect
29 Saturday Jul 2023
HUNTER GATHERER
I left a
trail of
blood for
you to
track me
but now
you have
found me
there is
the small matter
of the kill
and
it pains me
to say it
but killing me
would be
so easy
the power
you have always
had over me
only just gathered
this know
the last arrows
we fired at each other
wounding
severely.
29 Saturday Jul 2023
AS YOU NO DOUBT HAVE GUESSED
cat came
through my
window
sorry,
stand corrected,
meant to say
through HER window
sat on the bed
started to give me
a lecture
on agility
and, as I’m sure
you have no
doubt guessed
that lecture
contained
way more show
that it did
tell
(and all that show
telling it
like
it is)