For the same old new
we got lamps for you.

no genie?
how mean we become,
a few shillings in the bank
and suddenly
we're all Frank Bruno
although
defending what's yours is
the thing to do,
ask Frank
he knew,

one of the good guys.

When I am blinded by that brilliant flash
it won't be Jesus that's on my mind
it'll be a bottle of wine
and as the world we know sinks
I'll be sinking a glass or two.

She says
I won't be able to find the corkscrew
but thanks to Baldrick
I have a cunning plan,

screwtop bottles.

As I look into her eyes
yesterday comes back alive.

I see
the meadows where we'd go
the river that ran slow

the light
the dark
and
we were there
in the park
the band played
and we stayed
for what seemed
an eternity.

She qualifies my
existence.

..when you know it's time to go
and you need to take that leap
but you keep on looking back
knowing there's no chance of change

there is no new identity

whatever is out there is meant for you and me
and the first steps take us nearer to our goals

From nought to sixty
in three seconds
is unlikely to fix me
I
need a slow build up
to build up
to
that moment
when
everything comes together.

I am a jigsaw with one piece missing
and can never see the whole picture,

but there are a million pieces
so
in time
who knows.

They say we're triumphant
and that they'll build us an arch
and we'll be quite thrilled
until they inject us with starch
and
we will look quite stupid
in a central location
holding up the roof in
St Pancras station.

I need coffee.

I believe that what changes is us and that
we probably get fed up with the old us
and decide to make a brand new us,
the old us is rejected in favour of the new us.

a bit like politics
without the *******.

You always count on her
so why not
make her a necklace from the
beads on an abacus
and make it official.

A kiss on the lips
a gun on your hips
who's in control?

She says
you do what I say.

collateral
yeah
there's always damage
and yet
we manage to survive.

I'm surviving until you *******
or until you're *******
but
I'm an awkward cuss.

After some serious thought
I have decided that work
gets a nought out of ten.

jeez
even I got more than that on the Richter scale.

I have a hunch
said Quasimodo.

Judy
because Judy knew me
and Punch
was not best pleased
but
seaside outside
and the show's on the beach

I built my sand castle
counted every grain
now
the tide is coming in
I'll have to build it again.

Anyway
I have things to do
not sure what they are
but definitely things
and
yet again
I am scheduled to work
not until later though.

Wishing it would take longer to get ready for work
but wishing won't make that so,

I know that
you know that
time to close the door on the flat
must
remember the keys
turn off the gas
double check the lights are off
then I'll be off

some say I already am

*******.

have a great Saturday kidz, play nicely.

Woke again and before five
probably alive
but hard to tell.

Made it to the coffee jar
it wasn't far
but far enough.

aha and now awake
ready to work now
but not quite

another nap
perhaps 23 winks
don't want to overdo it.

Already done that bruv
gone through the whole gamut
got fed up
and stopped.

what you do
is not up to me
it's up to you

but it'll **** ya
take the luck from ya
and put ya down.

just saying bruv
it's a hard time
coming back.

We're not being chemically coshed
we're being brainwashed
easier and
cheaper

keep a diary
wire me the details

shambling down the stairs?
take the uppercase
just in case
they're watching.

oh
what a way to go
under a star sign,
librium
******
thalium
want some?

one may consider the ramifications
and fukin do it anyway,

what the man gonna do?
lock you up
throw away the key
feed you on bread and water?
nah
there's not enough of the man left
to catch a fukin cold.

Cutbacks to the front line
no more doughnuts
no more kickbacks
just a bunch of sad sacks
in uniforms.

Jeepers
today came quickly,
I only went to sleep forty winks ago
and
lo and behold
I looked and got old,

today came quickly indeed.

New and shiny
very tiny though
I'm sure they used to be bigger
in fact
everything used to be bigger
and even through
years of rampant inflation
things are definitely smaller.

We'd have been there by now if there was where they said it would be,
a possible reason is that, there, is expanding at the same rate as the universe or
there, is not there at all and we've been fooled.

seems like it always seems like and it always seems like that.

Don't worry about me
I'm getting on a bit
although
I worry that
I'm getting off on it

the night has come
and me
on my second ***
which some
would deny me.

deny me thrice
said the man
with the nails
through his hands
and feet

judas hangs
swinging
in the wind.

How do you express it
when you
don't know what it is?

the feeling that you're missing out
but always included in.

crying here
but quietly
not wanting
the neighbours
to hear me

how do you express it
when you don't know what
it is?

Oh
so ******* soially awkward
don't you dare
to walk towards me

I'm disappearing
into the ambience
you can  call me
an ambulance

I feel so sick,.

We imagine that we imagine
but we are not imagining at all
this **** is real
and that's got my seal
of disapproval.

come lay your head on the
bones of the dead,

here lies
the lie of the twenty first
century

nothing will prepare you
for the taste of the fruits
of evil.

if we're to meet our doom
and still
no room at the inn
how do we begin
to believe.

It's going down,
the home front
in an Eastern Town.

Mach 3 Jets
the bomb
the gun.
buried in debts
under a smoky Sun.

They're paying
we're paying
so many praying
for peace.

and at a loss
for something to say
I kneel down
and pray in silence.

I wanted to jump and pumped up with excitement,
I jumped.

Playground swings are fun when you're young
and she said
but friggin' dangerous when you become older.

No rest for the wicked
for them, there is no relaxation as they gather the tax in and make people poorer in a once wealthy nation

and the poor
who then sit around with nowhere to go because their money has gone,

to be
classed then as lazy, which is mind-blowingly crazy

who do we see to complain to?

There's not much to go on
when
there's not much to go on
but
we go on
relentlessly

marching towards the end
almost as if it could be a
beginning

and who's to say
does tomorrow come after
yesterday
or does today?

I want the release
wanting peace
but
there's always
another
war
to fight.

Smoked a cigar
Ravi on the sitar
moving on to Bihar
trying to learn
some Hindi.

Whoever danced the rain dance,
congratulations
you won.

Sunday and no Sun day
everything is a choice
or so it's said,

I choose to stay in bed
She has other ideas.

This is not a Greek restaurant
we are not talking about plates

broken
and any words spoken will not mend or repair,
where did it all go wrong?

well,
they probably wrote a song about such a thing and some old-aged warbler more than likely got up to sing

still broken
finished breaking
time to take
the washing in
it's raining
but it always is.

it's a good job that I'm a happy guy.

Oh my
you look so nice
I
had to look twice
before I realised
her eyes
were not on me

She said
don't count your chickens
or
I'll skin you alive.

jeez
my life is tough.

Tonight
I'll finish work at seven
get home at eight
have a shower
a glass of wine
( not at the same time )
put on pyjamas
relax for an hour
go to bed
sleep
wake
go to work for 10
( yes, work again )
finish at six
shop
for snacks
shower
wine
relax
Sunday repeat
Monday repeat
Tuesday
I'm beat
Wednesday
soak my feet in a tub of mustard
( old wives tales without fail always work )
and so do I
it keeps me active.

One day I shall rest
be a guest and someone
other than me can cook
and wash and dry,
yes indeedy
I shall
one day
be that guy

but for now
I work like a cog
in the machine
I'm a dog
barking up trees

thought it was a dream
but no
scheduled to appear
three hundred days a year

What flamin' Bank Holiday?

X
( Formerly Twitter )
Britain
( Formerly Great )

brackets
are a racket
they
can make a sandwich
out
of a
pile of ****.

Great Britain in
The Tate Modern
exhibiting in
the
retro wing.

Opened the cover of
a book
took a look
thought
what the ****
went and had a beer.

They might pity me
but
for one Euro
I bought a house
in Italy.
and
whee
full of glee
I shall
emigrate
integrate
and
learn the lingo
eat pasta
ride a Lambretta
sit in a Gondola
and drink
Limoncello

and then I'll wake up.

Daylight looms
weaves into me
and I rise
sleepily.

No crying
I'm a baby no more
the last of my childhood
disappeared through the door
and She
and She
builds me up
and says
fancy a cup?

ha
I know what I fancy

wonders if there's a chance
he
tries his luck.

****
killed
destroy
rebuild
repeat.

There  is nothing here now
but me
trying to stop me

left alone on my own
in a home
where there's no one left
to talk to

I don't know
should I go
or would I stay here
then
I remember it was
this time last year
I asked myself that question

and
it's always the devil that I know
who never gives an answer.

Never thought much of dying
when living gives a buy in
to the card game
but
it's chances that we take
that make us strong
or break us
and we're crying.

Mc Guire's on the wireless
and telling us
that
war will bring destruction

can't hear a choir
the Messiah
can't be listening

bury your heads in the sand
and make believe that it's
not happening
and
a selfie on the shelf
will make you think
that you're not
leaving.

don't you know
we left long ago
before the flowers
melted snow
and
started bleeding.

You wake up
plans have changed
world turned on its head

flamin' Nora
I need to pour a drink
but wait
it's only 05:28

one of these days
we'll look back on all of this
and think
ah
those were the good old days
and then the nurse will slip us
a 'Mickey'
and
we'll go back to sleep.

Are you 'swingin' the lead?' he said,

no guv,
off work because I'm proper poorly

hmm
more like trying to fool me
unless you're dead, the boss said,
you had better be here tomorrow.

Well
if tomorrow is truly another day
I'll be there on a wet Wednesday
in hell

Addled or puddled,
we all need to be cuddled.

What else can we do but make stronger glue because we're falling apart at the seams
and the dreams we once had have soured and turned bad
we all need a cuddle sometimes.

unable to cast off
the poverty within
he digs in to a paltry
and says
let them insult me
but I have to eat.

Well off?
we  are
and yet never so far
that we can't taste defeat.

Salutations friend.

I don't know this girl
I have never known this girl
but she wants to be my friend

about fifty years and a marriage late
if you ask me

My wife will see this and it could possibly
**** her off,
and I'll say
it's just my imagination darling

She'll scroll through my Facebook
anyway.

Crib sheets
do not a cover make

weirdly true
unless you can
show me it's not.

and here's a thing
I know that they'll remember me
at the Michelin
I'm the one who ordered
egg, beans, chips and spam.

wonders if I look old in this skin
if so
can I trade it in?

Someone hating on someone who's hating on and it goes on and on until someone else starts hating on someone who's hating on and on and on.

got the picture yet?
I bet the media has.

It's up for debate
Parliament sitting late
but the horse has bolted
and
it's too late to shut the gate.

They talk, but we know
that they blow hot air
they don't really care
it's time for that lot to go.

Monday and time to pay for your weekend
bleary eyes?
call in sick, tell the boss lies

not me
I'm as fresh as a daisy,

skeletal because I worked my fingers
to the bone, got home,
had a glass of wine,
and time to sleep,

now, I have a day free, which doesn't come
with terms and conditions.

She
may have other ideas.

Seems like the closest
that I'll ever get to Manila
is licking an envelope.

Reason being,
the flight is so long and my time may be short
and I wouldn't want to be caught dead anywhere
other than in familiar surroundings.

They fell
we fall
some build
another wall
for them to
fall off
again.