All of recorded history

You will not hear the specifics of this
Just be touched by its eddied resonances
Bleeding your messages and meaning together
Blended like the Thames
If unoriginal, your origins squarely midstream
This journey may seem predictable as revolutions
Of a wheel on a smooth road and these stories
Histories and myths we archive in polarities of clay
Will be celebrated as just such sweet moments.
Mistake them not for monuments.

This is a thought experiment

This is a thought experiment

Prime purpose of our mind
The shifting water social
The self of others suffered
As life is.

How would I tell you
Of a passed love, part of me
When you are not present?
Resident in a remote forest
Climate, character set and concrete different
She was an anorexic when I was with her
And now lives in Ethiopia
Live Aid, Geldof, the global charity of our youth
It's funny how your Gestalt accreates like stalacmites
And what I want to share
With you downstairs stitching
With care my jumpers
While you're here when normally
We are separated by half the world's hem
I learnt a particular kiss from her.

Should I tell you this in words
Would it make you like each other more.
This is only a thought experiment.

Habitat and survival

It's loss of the environment
That induces extinction
A road bisects a forest
A fences demarcates a marsh
Causes a power law
Of devastation. Exponent increase
In species loss. It takes a continent
For elephants to flourish.

There's an elephant in the corner
I don't fancy its chances in the space
With an incontinent horse
Incontinent bat
Incontinent bull
The corner is not a continent
It cannot support this fauna
A shrinking viable environment
This is an epistemic emergency
Warning that
The elephant in the corner
Is loosing its habitat.

If I had known

If I had known I would get old
I would have cut more trees
Hewn more rock and thrown a net
Over more stars for you.

But I thought only of now
Of an infinite now
Vowels forming on my tongue
And yes now, and then
You were bored or rowed
I was unawed by your rapport
Or deportment and cursed insecure.

So now when I hew rock
Curl vowels
Or pull a bright star from my net
Hauled back from the sky at dawn
It's just another lump of fusion
Just hydrogen becoming helium
Chemistry where the magic's gone.

When you I said I love you

When you said "I love you"
I didn't guess it was a question
A request, my apprehension
Was it was emotion in your chest.

When you said I love you
I realised responsibility
The kids gloves donned and stickers
Saying fragile, handle carefully.

When you said I love you
I said "how?"
In what way, with what aim
And expectation?
Affection, affectation.
After that it was never the same
Kind of conversation.

What am I to think

What am I to think
I ask you
Waking up to this
Realisation that part of me is 26
That I got a chip
Got a chip on my shoulder in Uni
Because i wrote a reinterpretation of Marx
Of the Nation State, but didn't get a first
So my life has been blighted
By oversight
That kept me monastic
HTML1 I learnt that
When the web was a playground
Facebook, Google, Twitter, I was there
And now viruses reshape the web
Call for security
Call for platforms
I still throw in my tupence
Still throw a twig upon the fire
That bigger, hungrier people make burn
What would you think
Waking up to this
How would you feel when you learned?

Is there any harm in dreaming

Is there any harm in dreaming
Of a happy child at play
To stand and stare, full of care
In mind but feet of clay?

Is there any harm in dreaming
If it's sitting still that kills
To wake and stretch and bend
And eat until you're filled?

Can we dream the same dream
And if we do
Is it only scenes and seeming
Or can we make the dream come true

Are there boundaries of the mind
Are our feet poured clay
What effect of DMT and chemicals of different kinds
It would be wrong of me to say.

Electrons, electromagnetic radiation
The neutrons from my bones, this hex
All aflame in ideation
I might not facetime, just email or text.