Monday, June 3, 2019

Tug Dumbly - 16 Pretty Unrelated Bits


Spaghetti Western:
How the Left was Won.

Democracy’s a beautiful thing
till it’s not.
My country, wrong and wronger.
It’s getting hot.

Holocene
Anthropocene
Trumpocene.
Can you dig the seam?

Horses, hunting
foreign flings
when kings make sport
that’s the death of things. 

Rapture Bookie
takes odds on Apocalypse.
who will collect?

Humanity’s a Blooper Reel
of God’s funniest home videos,
like cold calling Christ on the cross. 

I run a canned laughter factory
with a sideline in applause tracks.
But I’m laying off today.   

Take the fight to the man:
change your name to Totes Yolo,
start a band called Pop Smear.

So much toxic masculinity
in Simon & Garfunkle –
The Boxer, I am a Rock …
Scar bro, there.

Siam, Persia,
Formosa, Cathay,
Bohemia, Burma, Bombay …
I like their old stuff better.      

Melanstalgia:
a sticky-sweet addiction
to melancholy and nostalgia.

I reconstruct you
like an anthropologist
smoothing clay to a face
of an ancient skull.

‘Oh Man’, said Manuel,
as he read the Manual
on Manual labour,
‘this langwidge is Manglish’

John Berryman reads
like a parody of himself.

The cat steams in
like the Flying Scotsman. 

Today I piss streams
of tiny brightly coloured tropical fish
into the gutters.




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