SPANNER

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BREXIT, Britain, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, satire, wordplay, writing

SPANNER
“I call him after grandad
Who had a feathered brain.”

John Lennon, A Spaniard
in the Works

Dan is on his way
with spanner and hammer
hurtling as fast
as fat legs can carry him

down with it to
sort out all who
fail to
comprehend, don’t
understand

and you
can be sure
(that fish and
chip English
being pure)

that nothing
will be lost
in translation
(even a fool
with a
Ph D
can
easily follow

no problem
to understand)

SALSA

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poem, poetry, sexual symbolism, wordplay

SALSA

drank all
your coffee

imbibed your
hot chocolate

had too many
mojitos on
your account

left me
totally clueless
about the tango,
twist, lambada

the taste of
hot salsa
permeating
my mouth

WORDSMITH

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poem, Poet, poetry, wordplay, writing

WORDSMITH

wordsmith
am
I not

I am
no
wordsmith

more simple
fitter and turner
of the odd phrase

low-class brain that
reads, needs books
well above its
calling in
life not
to speak
of genetic station

that those vaunted
great minds (if they
say so themselves)
able to
eschew logic, rationality,
in forging
our lives

leading us down the dead ends
of political righteousness
(to which
sole access)

would
(if you but
give the nod, proffer a wink)

heap your high-minded library into
chaotic high pure

silence
those words, thoughts forever
as flames rage, pages burn

the ghosts in the smoke as they rise to the heavens
whispering: this is
what we warned, the fate
we foresaw

the death we envisaged even
in the glory of each page

AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT

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poem, poetry, power, wordplay, writing

AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT

I sit
under crescent Moon
having lost
the words
to a
thousand poems

something snipped
them out of my
head

perhaps same blade
that sliced
the Moon
like a mango

or like a ladle-full
of Moon liquid
frozen in time
flowing
slower than
glass

than
Arctic glacier

and then I wondered
what, our powers conjoined,
what Moon and I might conjure
make
appear
disappear

and so together we resolved
I should say her secret, first name
a trillion times

and watch the
life of our solar system, our galaxy
speeded up infinitely

easy
to imagine this
when both
thinking and
travelling
at the speed of light

l’écrivain écrit

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poem, poetry, postmodern, wordplay, writing

l’écrivain écrit

books books books
book upon
book

never read

pages pages pages
page
upon page
so many written

hardly a sentence
worth anything
making any sense

not a
single
good idea

AYAHUASCA

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hallucinogenic, poem, poetry, psychedelic, shapeshifter, Truth, wordplay

AYAHUASCA

drank ayahuasca

my brain bubbling
so many new cells
each with its own
identity, own agenda

and then the
serpent philosopher
explaining everything

saying this is
the legally
forbidden
knowledge

that sets you
out on a limb, an
ever-extending limb

wipes
all slates climb

MANY BELLS DOWN

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Boris Johnson, BREXIT, Britain, British, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, wordplay

MANY BELLS DOWN

ring the bells
the church bells

ring every single bell
to celebrate Brexit

a world where
you will
no longer
queue in
gray line

for all
the love your need

and there
will be mountains
of free ice cream

DAY JOB

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Boris Johnson, BREXIT, Britain, British, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, wordplay, writing

DAY JOB

don’t give up
your day job
Mr Big Ben Bong

not much hope there
of showing a
dab hand at poetry
that alliteration still

clanging all wrong
unsound in my head

this bitch of a Brexit
better do better than that

RAIN

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climate change, erotic, poem, poetry, Sexual, the body, wordplay

RAIN

we talked climate
change
we went Plato
and Socrates
philosopher and
best disciple

we went
Monsoon

we fell like a tropical rainstorm
in the Garden of Eden

we ran
with the animals

we shapeshifted our bodies
conjunction disjunction
exploring every
function
analytically
scientifically

we came to the
conclusion

that the body
is a sign

points beyond
limitation

and yet
the realization that
there is

the unique moment where
word
is flesh, flesh
is word

the rest
melting in the rain

POLAR BEAR

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Global warming, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, polarization, satire, wordplay, writing

POLAR BEAR

polar bear
polar bear

hiding from you
in the fridge
yet I see you
everywhere

and now you swear
I smashed your floe
broke
your home

polarized you
even more

and now you
on my homepage
at my door

troll that came in
from the cold