Gare du Nord

Today
I have carried a pack under suspicion
Eyed by tribal minded ignorants
Who seek to be saved from last week's disaster
Which they clearly were not part of.

When young I would have angered
And shot back hate
But now I softly offer smiles
And quiet pity for their mistake
Their fear everywhere
Ill-equipped hatred
Indistinguishable from brotherhood
Throughout the City of Man.

Here,
Once you have passed the guards
And gates and magic wards
They offer free electricity
But not free water
And those in tailored clothes sit tapping
Oblivious of location, of space, of fear.

A young couple carousel
Like the escalator is an aisle
Oblivious of location, of space, of fear.
Spinning in a dream
A progeninating dream of dreams
And it seems to me
That mine were once alike, light
And floated like zeppelins
But now their broke, tear soaked
Components parts
Weigh down
So much more cumbersome to carry.

Sobering up with my mother

There are some experiences that I would not wish for myself

Or any other

And one of those is sobering up

With my mother.

You see, the evils of society I blotted very early with curly wisps of smoke

And some have said, not in joke that I'm easier to cope with when I'm blazing dope

And so what hope

Sobering up with my mother

All in all drug withdrawal ought be called a good

For I stall in cloudy shawls enthralled longer than I should

But when the switches start to spark again there is oft some fire

I'd be a liar to desire this quagmire for I, my sister or my brother

Don't try

Sobering up with my mother.

Some arithmetic is additive some follows power laws

And trouble does not double but multiplies by threes and fours

Of minds I find some clearer, I hope better you treat yours

But mines been kippered up with biftas, since very early doors.

But ontologous onerous love calls the mortal in us all

And if I was the author I might not write it quite like this

But I cannot forestall for down the hill her house does fall

I hope no one gets killed, I will, life insists

Be sobering up with my mother.