peace be thine

The languid eyelashes of the fourth poet
flicker piling shovels of herbal muse into the concrete
truck mixing and revolting – sluicing it back out
into allegoric lines

staged onto the page

intuitions like stones

resting fathoms apart

in immortal gravity

people come and whisper –“is it
a plan? Will it be washed on the inside?”
scooping inside for a little white marble attempting not
to pop the slick rubber bands of fool’s desire

a gaze falls on the leather page
protesters move about in twos and threes
gashed hands across the back delicious and nutty
like a frozen lysosome

some will be martyrs, and we will remember them
some will slip into the undergrowth and sleep
amid the twigs and heather, the only comfort being
the gentle hands of long evolved forms

if to die is the pure path, then die we must
but here on earth there is a destiny too -
the ensured calming of the beasts
into the deep pool we call clarity of mind

How lovely (song)

How lovely you seem
to me

sweet fairy
in the tumbleweed

come to me
over seas
free delivery

i await
to see
you stand
in front of me

sweet fairy...

you would be
everything
i ordered you to be

you would say
i was all
you wished for me to be

everything
would be
as it should be

we would be
so happy

we would be...

holding hands
in a dream
just a dream
just a dream

no, no time for us
to meet
in reality

it would be
too painfully real
for me

This Poem is Why Trump Won!!

Expressing concern about the rise of racism is Why Trump Won!!

Supporting people with disabilities is Why Trump Won!!

Believing in a future where all cultures live together in peace is Why Trump Won!!

Being kind and generous is Why Trump Won!!

Showing compassion to Syrian refugees is Why Trump Won!!!

Taking the time to understand the science is Why Trump Won!

Your humility and dignity is Why Trump Won!!!

You living your life and eating avocado is Why Trump Won!

This society's enduring tolerance of the unknown is Why Trump Won!!!

The Haunting of Woo

like some old paediatric nurse
 hanging a newborn baby up high
to spank his bum -

like the Earth moving under the feet
 of the commuters
realigning the mountain chains -

Woo came to me
shook me off the path
 and got me.

the deep dark haunting
 of imitable bliss
sits in soft robes over tan skin

chewing the unavoidable
 iron-firm nutrition
of the Great Realisation

maybe now that you are here
pausing at the edge
 it means -
Woo will come to get you, too.

A nice warm cup of tea

just a nice warm cup of tea
could you make it for me?
i'm asking nicely

a nice warm cup of tea
and a biscuit
it's not like i ask for it very regularly
just a cup of tea
would go down nicely

*
i'm not feeling very sexy
but if it came from you
a cup of tea
would do it for me
it's not like i'm asking for it constantly

a nice warm cup of tea
won't you hear my plea?
would you brew it for me
just occasionally
 baby

*
a nice warm cup of tea
and not too sugary
if i asked politely..
a cup of tea..?

one thing to say (song)

It's one thing to say
another thing to do

you say you love me
well i love me too

You say you're sorry
well I'm sorry too

and one of us is missing
but we don't know who

+


It's one thing to say
another thing to know

the voices ring out
like the stones we throw

the path that we're leading
is the smoke that we show

is the path of the dove
or the path of the crow

+

one thing to say
a truth to a power

and those in the ivory tower

hate those in the golden tower

The man in the golden tower

hates those of the ivory tower

and he likes a golden toilet
probably likes a golden shower

+

It's on thing to say
another thing to do

i got it all worked out
gonna sing it to you

The only piece that doesn't make sense

is one blue shoe

and the thing that you left

in the portable loo

+

it's one thing to say
another thing to cry

+


He says he'll take good care
of your things while you're away

leave it with him
while you go out and play

Well my advice is to not believe
one word that he'll say

Cause he will sell everything
on the very first day

+

She said I'm leaving
I said well I'm coming too

She said I'm leaving
He said well I'm coming too

Cause my life
is without nothing without you

Cause my life
is without nothing without you

+
you drove the tanker
to the city at dawn

i'll wait by the tree
for the smoke or the horn

my body is bare
and my clothing is torn

and burned and bloody
from the rose and the thorn

+
one thing to say
anther to understand

Cause i may be young
but not too young to understand

Before you cross the road daddy
take my little hand


that life is what happens
when you're in a big rock band


+

All of your wishes
are blowing around

O all of your wishes
moaning and dying

I'd sooner vote for him
than be lying here crying

and into all our ointments
this fly is aflying

+

She said I

I love you

He said I think we're going

to have to see this whole thing through

***

an earlier version i recorded:

f**k you donald drumpf (song)

fuck you donald drumpf
fuck you donald drumpf
you're the joker card not the trump
you're the vandal broke the handle off the pump

you took a dump on the presidency
 and made the whole world really scary

fuck you FBI, man
fuck you CNN
fuck you Cable TV
fuck you fake book

nobody likes a hater so better to hire a hater
to do your hating for ya

fuck you Pauline Hanson
fuck you Julian Assange
fuck you Brietbart troll network
fuck you neo nazis

if I put a gun to your head and said
"I'll shoot you if you vote for you"
What would you do?

fuck you Hillary Clinton
fuck you for not winning
fuck you Jill Stein
fuck you broken hacked election system

there's a short circuit in democracy
taking us back to the 4th Century BC

that's the direction we're going anyway