Titles unchained hurling their words,
weighted down
across the
powder room
dancefloor
desktop
a deck of cards thrown,
without care
what were you thinking
where do they go to
whispers
footsteps
teardrops
where can you run to
who can you flirt with
did the bureaucratic slime gag
your lips take away your
words steal all your lines, leave you
breathless no starting gun
random titles in DOCX folders
running flirting rolling
in blue folders across the electric desk-top
what were you thinking dreaming thinking:
the neon Coke sign at the Cross
two hundred bloody metres
the bureaucrat and the poet
sleeping alone
newcomers to Lawless
dying not
Zen and the Art
is that what you tell yourself?
heart beats
black hole sun
blackened out
deformed metal cutlery
Kings Cross coke sign
a twisted spoon
not dying
is that what you tell yourself?
ReplyDeletewhere can you run to
who can you flirt with
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come away o human child!
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
The waters and the wild / with a faery, hand in hand - sounds very appealing - despite the weeping :)
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ReplyDeleteLove it.
ReplyDeleteAh. All we tell ourselves
it is mostly secrets elided
like the plug on a neon sign
Yes indeed Rob - there are indeed a poem or two (at this stage very embryonic) regarding the plugging in - or actually the de-plugging - of the neon Coke sign at the Cross.
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Deletewe're tailored the same length then
have to have a beer together someday
:)
For sure Rob - I look forward to it :)) We can also scribble collaborative poems on the napkins as we drink a pint or two!
ReplyDeleteFun!
Deletebrilliant title! and much to guess in this kaleidoscopic kind of poem.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the many possibilities and
ReplyDeleteshuffling colours it your urban mythology(s).
Thanks Béatrice & Jeffree,
ReplyDeleteThe kaleidoscopic shuffling colours are all the titles of semi/half-written poems on my desktop. They're all ones I hope to finish soon & post on the blog. Stay tuned :)