Stay silent, stay prone Recumbent, even Under this late-flowering canopy Dead-headed to prevent further Infestation, molestation To promote new growth Of tell-tale green shoots Split open, then, to stop the telling Of plants talking back Through mouthing leaves Stay silent, stay prone Open to the touch Of these tender traps, if you let them grasp […]
I’m a skeleton breaker I nab the bony bastards Snapping ‘em clean through Loving the sound of fractured pelvis At 3.15 on a blue death night I’m a skeleton breaker I’d bleed your pupils clean out If you still had eyes Stick your head here, give me your sockets Smash your skull on this breeze block […]
I have one hundred dogs One hundred dogs and Twenty-five pieces of meat And no leashes I am doing the equation Making the math work in my head Simplistic sums are the sum Of all I learnt in school, by rote One carcass between four dogs Is never going to feed Their empty bellies Or their […]
I do this to I do this too I do this x2 I do this to scrub out my insides I do this to spew up my guts I do this to erase the question mark I do this to rub out the rub out rub out the rub out I do this to create the […]
[Insert words here] Um. Well. Indeed. Yes. Thank you. Thank you for your time. That is all. Don’t call us. We’ll call you. I am going to climb into my well now. Please do not drop pebbles on my head. Not unless you hear me mumbling to myself. [Insert more words here. Repeat to fade.]
Sometimes I wake with stars in my eyes Sometimes I wake with swirls Sometimes I wake with dust in my eyes Sometimes I wake with tears. Yet always I lie there wondering If you, did you, and why did you Hit me over the head with a hammer In the night?