Saturday, May 16, 2020

Do not go gently

 

A bath to keep you warm
This
All that retired.

To carry, do my best
Confine such an incidence
In depth of gut and chest
Even yet I still forget.

It fills up again
I lack, I know you back
See below. Sea
Incidence, probability

Inhale all this breath
It.
It made the
I love you

Let him hate till all his angst
Lives out of foot or arm
Love back more than I can share
I wish you well. So vital here.

If this verse should draw acclaim
The many many unslept dreams
The time just goes. Your gentle rose?
The Thames it flows on still.

I put my love in every breathe
Put my love in every step, in every thing
Sing a song I know not yet
Sing of what tomorrow brings.

I Wish it full of sprouts and beans.
But all this through mists is seen.

Step, step there is plenty more
Tell me, tell me please!
Ah, this world not ours to know
Love, sleep and be at ease.

Vital there in all your form
For you will move within storm
Though I was not really warm
I tried to not be of the norm

And of the Norns?
A plectrum, or a bow?

I wonder why?
We all do have your smile
I wonder why
Is that a teardrop in your eye?

Smirk at me
I am ever so, ever so
Silly
I will. I do. So proud of you
I can be less loud too.

And we will jest in happiness
With Nu and T above this mess
We’ve all a service due
New heart, new lungs

Grass with dew, the sign of sun
Oh these new bags of fun
I reckon you can run and run
Well, stroll and stroll

With mind in moment, not some goal.
What the stallion, what the fowl.

How they do stitch up the seams
How you shall ever sing and sing
Our final act is yet unplayed
Any time I made you fret

As only empty vessels can
Please forget and understand

At some time we must  meet for lunch
Blossom forth, least one more year
Quilt brocades of gold, not fear
By your name, the tender hold

Cops dem robbers not to tearaway
And I say

Do not go gently into that good night.

Does it not pique curiosity
To draw. Draw up and paint
Shift a little give complaint
For you bear this all just like a saint

For you have suffered all of this
And not even hit me pissed
Let out a little grumble, rage if you shall
Rage and yes, I feel you still

The light is coming in the doors
Wiggle your toes, wiggle your jaw
It is not yet time
There is more to do

Isn’t there
This is true
There’s more to do
Just another book or two

Maybe half a dozen new
For all your cousins are still due
A present for their reckoning
This great world a beckoning

This new future that will bring
The joy. Or Kiko and of Florin
These young minds alive
We will thrive

Once again to Jazz will Jive
Go play some now
Some LP that tells of youth
Some little jiggle.
One sip, Nephew, Overproof.

These waves come upon me
Know not where I from
Baroda, still strong
I rode an elephant into the sea.

Even if I sometimes storm
Even if this doesn’t scan
Even if we cannot hold
Even if we’ve not been told
This

Far, far better than my best
For my best, is, I suggest
Is in the future not the past
And through and through, all your dues

There must be some who will stay true
There must those with faith anew
They will come through
They will come through

Fettle and in health
For my mettle made for wealth
If not of gold then mind and soul
I could not bear to carry poles

For love that empties as it goes
Just grows and grows
And grows and grows

So I send gone out the gate
How does the world turn of late?
How does the World need us here
I cannot understand.

I cannot, cannot, leave you cold
A shawl about your shoulders still
You know, I know my strength of will.

I didn’t think embarrassment
In front of all your mates
Like bad jokes with dinner plates
I guess grates, on greats

Maybe it is true
I do not feel it is your day
Don’t feel it’s right that way
But hey, we feel brand new.

We must go for a pint
Yes a pint
In cool glass, Long draught (draft, daft)

I feel that it is not your turn
I fought fire with fire. Y
I have a hunch, the serving wench
I know you have the finest nose.

I see a crack upon the plan
It hatches with cartiligious beak
To crack and peak though Calcious
Shell. Well, well, well

I so unread and you unsore
With too much fire to find some more,
Oh there are so many floors
Tell me how does your garden grow?

I till the plough
Seed tomorrow
Tried to be not just pawn
In this pall a shawl keep warm

I will forgo the chamber maid
I will forgo all alms all stale
I will forgo these arms for sale
Will forgo all beyond the pale

I wonder what they’ll make of it
A top 20 hit ?
We could just get a bot
It would make us better.

Don’t go to join with Tariq Mehta
Its meta.
Metaphysics?
I sure did
And it was quizzical
My wizard.


It was magic and thee were spells
They’ll see you well.
Are these many holes?
Is this a bucket on a song?
Not under foot
So yet we sing

Yet we dance with brave love strong
Talk, discuss, debate
I am punctual. But always late
We have time to make this great.

Love this
And embrace
Not this farce, the higher race
Not all these shingle stakes

It makes me giddy, tickles me
And you so much, so strong
Oh how it tingles, how we belong
You will, you will, you will

I would climb for tea to bring
Climb, I would to hear you sing

I, blessed love, I do digress
I have digressed, I do suggest
I’ll say his maths is great
I mean, what would I know any rate.

In fact, actual material fact
Let me do far better.

In much my life I could be no dumber
Let’s not think twice, like last summer
And yet time will dice
If you were right, right all along.

You can laugh and can be strong

At very least wiggle you toes,
Move your feet
Oh how it helps the blood to flow
Oh I know your nose.

I know your nose can’t leave this show
Is the century not made for thee?
It carried me. It was magic
Just like magic

Let me just expand my chest
Bless.
May likes you more than it lifes me
For you write laws, and I just poetry

Me on my knees
Must twist again

My lord,
The weakness in me, upon me
I can only cry apology
I did not know, just how to use me
I did so somewhat incautiously

My love, my dad, the finest friend
No, no, this is not a getaway
Not when all the steps you made
Not when all the world’s a stage

Now let us not be overwrought
Let us take little metal bottle tops
Little metal bottle tops
And nail them upside down on the floor

The tiles will last for ever more
Wiggle, wiggle, your toes and stand
Oh howl I would
Love to make you proud

Its quite a Himalayan hill
Like Stuart Mill
And act of will.
Act of Will

Oh my love, I err
Err, err, so far
So good
I wish I could know what I should

But I have hid with head in hoods
With hoods in hoods
I never did, thought never would
Know another compass

And between us
I guess this little time
At least gifts my sisters
At least I can say I missed her.

And if I am not true
I guess there’ll be more missing too
For ever since I caught the flu
I have not known just what to do.

My doubt, My doubt
Of my own clout
Well it wheels me about
And in discipline.

I struggle, rarely win,
They say your soul is wearing thin
That I am lost afore I begin
Therefore (I do not believe a word)

if all I have is rhyme. Without brine
Let us speak o love, till dinner time
And if there are but hours left
Then there is no time to jest.

Your friends that I serve drinks too
In leather patterned shoes
I thought were just your normal crew
Sure, they were normal just to you.

But in my Clarkes I did not know
Their weight, mistook mine
They’re great, I wow, another time
And wow again, like wow. Wow!

Upon the cork I trod. Never thought me shod
For marble halls. Where you are ermine robed and all
And I’m so sorry that I called
So late to save me from my fate

This is a lasting memory
And if T is to be

Oh yes
Oh yes
Oh yes
Oh yes.

I wonder how they kept their seats
I think I may miss your tact
But have your cheek, Oh.
So slow, I must, I know.

And to get your cheek
I know the ladies knees go weak
But you must need a nice hot bath
Yes, and laugh

A nice hot bath
When did you last give love to you
By my watch your share’s overdue
Run, run, run, the water

Be serious
The water, not the park
Relax a while and have a lark.
Do you have any books to read?

I guess you might have one or two
Two or three
Four of more
Well you ought to have four score

Really well, a century
Really, what wicket’s this?
Anyone’s guess
The bowlers not got bails yet

I reckon a bath and sweat
Roll and roll. Royce

Sing a song from out the trees
Smile a while and take a rest
So high in clouds for want of girls
Yes, I confess, I just lacked confidence.

Sparu, Starling
Sparu, Starling
I ever I can lift you darling
Breathe in you some breathe of life

Stand, overstand
For you have helped this foreign land
And how they treat you oh so grand
Lord of all, of all the Strand

And the Dickens
What the Dickens is this anyway?
Solutions for our whole clade
Some fasting, and some deep breathes.

Step up
I’m up. Lets do it
What dat?
I thought I saw
Chew some fat
Step up to bat
I know you sing a little flat
But sing, I’ll sing back

Still we must play

Stochastically I fell from trees
On Abrahamic prophecy
They all misread, save you and me
We cannot leave them all mislead

Suits you, like a preference choice
If I learn to drive
I’ll be sober
Then I can be your driver.

That now you are my king
That so many parties seen
And hearty now I see you still
My brod, chew some garlic like the cud

The communists come dressed like this?
I confess, a great surprise
And believe that we must thrive
You always had a flourish
 
In tennis, cards, in wit
The finest life to chapter write

The pawns are all gone again
The rallies and the jazz,
The backspin run and run
And sweat upon the tennis court

The revolution finally
Then all I have is poetry
I always thought impossibly
Their’s to have

They say you’ll be soon to jive
For we must twist again
This is a dawn
This is just beginning.

Who ever thought
This wind is yours beneath your wings
Those early doors of course sometimes
We pause and passion rest a while.

I inherited some style
Inherited a pleasant smile
I can see your all this while
Wiggle, wiggle. Just some more

Though of course,
I prefer solar powered horse
Or car, I am sure
Rolls Royce will get that far.

All this just beginning
Possibly your Butler too
But maybe more your Lenin.

To ease the liver and the spleen
To ease the throb of Tennised knees
To life, brave love and company
To make you ease.

Turn, turn again my friend
Twist again, with Kishwa and us three

Unless, unless I can find fame
A game, empty nothing left
We will be family
I will soothe my phuva.

With lover’s words, placate, prostrate
We will, we can, we even If
We’ll dance upon a marble floor
Do you remember Clapton?

The poor carpet. When you came
Held the floor to much acclaim
And danced amongst all those young dames
Who saw me then with different name
Oh

Well it’s just not cricket
Who was he
Who dropped the banana
Made apes walk upon Savannah

Oh this great Rift unhealed
This gift I wish to write, to feel

With salt and manganese
Wrought this world
Yes we shall dream, a ream, a gleam

You will
You can, you will .
Just clean.

You I know medicate
Desire of late and well
You know that I, know my will.

You know when blessed I run through pain
And dance stone floors with sore chill blanes
Can dance to music of the sun, the birds the trees
There is so much more, more to run.

Do not go softly into this new dawn

You know that I, know my will
You know that I do rise at five
You raised me as that different sort
Raised me good to not get caught

You will
You will
You will
You will

Not your will. Caroline Ahern
God I’ve so much to learn
God I’ve only started term
Unforewarned. How’s your lawn?

Does it need a little clip?
I’ll come over, in a bit
Just a short and patient while
I was you, most patient child (?)

Yours is acknowledged
I a silent foot note

Yours still burns
My mind still designed to learn.

For it’s a funny age to be born
Do not go softly into this new dawn.



Friday, May 15, 2020

Do not go gently into this bright dawn

Last night a demon cam to me and said
That he wanted the planet dead
And this was my reply
Tears in my burning eye

We can make the world anew
What are these brand new tools
We can make the world afresh
Will sit down as heavens guest

The time ancient feuds is done
No time for jealousy or fear
For we here are in arrears
And so far is left to run

There is no time to spare
To look upon the ticking clock
For we must tread with love and care
All we have to do is share

All we have to do is love
We have just one planet here
God made this in seven days
It may take us longer still

We have until the December
And your contribution be remembered
For all women and the men
And all the herds that are our friends

And ants and bees, the fish and rivers
And the seas, will all boil
The trees with ashen leaves
But I know you are great are brave

And you can make the world remade
Do not bow down or be a slave
Ours is yet the race to run
Before the burning of the sun

For we can make the world anew
For all the ship and all the crew
Turn this tanker round
Or we all must drown

For there is but one planet here
And she is sick
But have you seen the trees of late
And they are pleased with their estate

And how the eagles celebrate
Finally gone ov’er the gate

For we can make the world anew
With care and love so beautiful

With all the drudgery to quell
We do not have the time to dwell

We must make this world anew
With brave love and spirit true
Turn, turn, the ship around
Until we come to solid ground

Until our ancient mores are found
Restore land to horse and hound
We can make bright future here
And think of all the we hold dear

What use is silver, what is gold
What matters, what value do you hold
I you brave men, and true
And with great ambition too

And I am but a simple pawn
Do not go gently into this bright dawn

Tell me, you must feel the same
Not live with hate and blame
For we inherited a law of fools
We can remake with brand new tools

For we are of one mind
We are just, are humans kind
Turn, repent your sin
Your soul is there still yours to win

For they picked us off illiterate
When we were weak and separate
But now we are all one mind
And we have  so little time

And though I am a simple man
And you mighty may have other plans
This world I know not, nor understand
But tell me you don’t feel the same

For I am lucky, I don’t have kids
But how I would feel if I did
For it is our responsibility
It was us, you and me

We burnt the oil
Cut the trees
Pulled the fish from out the seas
Yes, I do not deny, I did this with knowing eye

There is no one else to blame
Not our ancestors, they’re not in their name
we should weep and hang in shame
For we knew, and did it all the same

And yes I used the power tools
And yes I drunk from drinks in cans
And yes I carried plastic bags
And wore new clothes instead of rags

We knew, all did
You cannot say you missed and hid
We knew the science and facts
And we went on and did not act

This our responsibility
The grass now desert
The ashen leaves
What is their to leave kids

What will they say when they know
What we did,
When they lift there lids and ask
What will your answer be?

For we can make the world anew
And we can make a profit too
For this is enough silver here to share
What we need is love and care

What is it that really matters
The values that make life better
Those things we cherish and we hold
Is it love and care or gold

For we can make the world afresh
And we will sit as Heaven’s guest

Turn, turn again
We shall go forth as friends

There is no time for ancient feuds
For rudeness and bad attitudes
We with science can improve
The world is ours, and ours to lose

For even demons need love too
And they need more than me and you
For we are them of human kind
And now we are of all one mind

They picked us off illiteratre
When we were hungry, separate
There was once space to war
But now we are one planet here

And all we have to fear is fear
And little time to shed the tears
And turn, turn and repent your sin
You are human with your soul to win

Do not be a demon’s pawn
Do not go gently into this bright dawn

For we can make the world a new
We can make the world afresh
Bless
We can sit as heavens guest

For sainthood is yours to win
You men men of great renown
DO not know tow, do not bow down
You have the powers and the mind
But we have so little time

And even demons must feel the same
Who would want a sterile planet
Who would rule a barren rock
What’s to torture, where’s the game.

And you might flee to moutaintops
And the world is wet and hot
And might burrow in a bunker to
But who wants to live as troglydtes

Where the birds and where the bees
Where the trees with spreading leaves
And the rabbits might same, damn it
The apes have gone and saved the planet

Who ever would have thought of that
Who ever would expect it
They might turn and say God dam it
The apes have gone and saved the planet.

For we have all these brands new tools
Database and internet,
many more unthought of yet
We can make genetics splice and rewrite the code of life

For we can make the world anew
And you have the power to
And what is it that you want to do
The same as yesterday, a little better.

Free yourself, let go the fetters
Look inside what really matters
And they always say I’m mad as hatters
But it is my responsibility

I took the train, burnt the oil
Used a power tool for toil
They look upon us as lazy
Our descendents id they be
Will say we must be crazy

Look at the material, the medicines
From all those long chain bonds
They will say they say
Can you believe they burnt it all

But we can make the world afresh
Some step up to right this mess
The prize is sainthood, nothing less
And you will sit as heavens guest.

Do not be no devil's pawn
Do not go gently into this new dawn.

Thursday, May 07, 2020

Drosophila's Eden

When the top came off the Sherry Bottle
It revealed paradise
For fruit flies. In some unguarded moment
Amorous adventures led a young couple
To this Eden. They lived in opulence
Proliferated in their dim Utopia
Knowing nothing but a carnival of alcohol
And the safe confines of towering glass
The riches, the Tang, rotting sugar and gas.


Wednesday, May 06, 2020

The names are lost

Their names not our tongue to speak
They came in chariots
Bit and bridle, smelted bin
Unrusting stele of the Indus
The Ithiop. From this rift
Neolithic. Brown obsidian
Along the Danube, Dneiper
We cannot trace their names
Yamnaya, Shintashta
The horse God gave us love
Gave us legs as centaurs
Gifted us graces of fire and moon
Held the harvests of each before us. The east
The great wide blue.
There are messages lost
Thousands of messages of love and lonliness
Cast lost in glass stoppered bottles
The great blue blue ocean
The stirrup stepped again
Bit and bridle foregone for gear sticks
Demon steam and fire.
Przewalski, my little pony
Where is your pasture's boundary now?



Tuesday, May 05, 2020

If only you knew

Where the hills. Stars
The Great Bear dips
Sparkle. All the sky's wonders
In this dark
Dark night. While there is still sky
I would breathe out my last
Delights into the ink of your
Darkling tress.

Saturday, May 02, 2020

Hot Water


I tell you. I was like 9 to 5. Missus. Lab. Two Kids
And then well
Well, well, well
I tell you I seen the some drug action
Across the board, balls of steel
Pair of grapefruits
In and out of hot water I was
Day after day. Oooh me kidneys
did I get a kicking I tell you.

She was undeniable
Raunchy. So hot I stepped
Into the cold shower
Half a minute felt like six hours

Dam nymph, had me walk with a limp
A bit of heavy breathing
At least it was moving my
Lymph, wink wink.
Did I say a bit,
Straight slamming the abs in
I standing, full wind
Digging my heels in
At it like skiing
Bringing it like
Swing, swing, swing

In and out of hot water for days I was
Darling left me starving
Had a bash, had to
Still starving. I’m like darling
She’s like “no dinner”
Tuesday, Wednesday and then believe
A plate of leaves
Raw garlic everywhere telling me I’m a vampire
“Go eat that if you don’t feel like kissing me” she says
“Vampire”.
Funny Greek,
Ain't had no meat in the sandwich for weeks.
Swing, swing, swing
I’m knitting her a sweater in Camberwick Green
Parsley,
Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Coriander,
Chilli, Ginger and black pepper too.
Whatever works
I’m still in the dog house
All she wants is tears out of me.
I’m like
Swing, swing, swing

Now I’m like
I wonder where my sugar’s gone
My bread butter
It’s been weeks since I ate pasta
I’m like please sugar
And she gives me leaves, cabbage soup
Bone broth and black pepper
Says "Go drink the oil, the vinegar, it suits your face."
Sour she is
Still, keep it fresh
Swing, swing, swing.
All she wants is tears out of me
Lemon.
So I give her tears,
It’s the only thing that ever works
When you got in the guts.
Lemon.
She wants tears. Lemon
I gave her tears for days.
She just gets snotty. And spits.
Where’s my sugar gone?
I’m like, back down Pineapple studios
Chasing ballerinas
Hot chocolate with chilli in.
Swing, swing, swing.

THING


This
Wish that, transparency
Dance like it is harp string delicate. The Norn's
Thread. Fresh spun time. This
Sadness these joys. And I forget
All that was. Wash.

Wash in waves soft
In waves
Towering, waves. If this wish is
To be
It will
I am but flesh, body. Matter uncollapsed
Not yet
Soul. I know which way
To go. We shall be gathered
Where water lies while
It lasts. Listening to skies

Clouds. The changing sky plays
Seasons. Cinema of empires gone
Ice breath.

I wind.

Friday, May 01, 2020

Hate like yokes

This hate like yokes
Does not cook in frying pans
Like egg, rashers, toast.

This cockerel
For all it crows on waking
Speaks of ghosts

A hurt, the misplaced expectation
The surrendering of youth
This hate like stocks at sunrise.

The hate like stocks and yokes
At sunrise is not breakfast.
No sustenance for famished heart.
The ghosts are bottomless
Ravenous, without cessation or satiety. 

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

An angel came to visit


This angel came to visit
Like to Abou Ben Adhem
I wish I was like him
I hope I am like him
I hope I am like him.

An angel came to visit
I gave him ladders
As he had lost his wings
For he gathered, that I gathered
Feathers and other things.

I said that when the wind blows
I make pillows
And these days sometimes duvets
And he said oh, oh,

You see the chiefs need them for their headdress
Not these common bedrests
And at this address we guessed
We'd find them all piled in a mess
I said, yes, yes,
I have a long to do list.

1. Abou Ben Adhem

Monday, April 20, 2020

Play silver flute

When the magic people, pixie folk
Take fright in nightmares
Peep from behind the flowerstems in fear
Play them flute. Lips to silver cane
See how light sounds touch upon the evening air
As sweet notes open flower cups
Lullaby the magic folk
Till beddy byes, beddy byes
Calls and strokes their smokey eyes.
Dreamcasting they will dance the broad stiff
Flowerstems, hand in hand in rings
Singing of the garden sweet
Its mossy mounds and moist dark nooks
Its spreading fronds so pungent.
Where the water falls in drips
From the lip of a broken pipe
They will play music on the stocks and tulips
In revelry through raucous night.
Take flight above the pretty blooms
Beating wings a blur, till buds closed, blossom
Petals a tremble vibrate delicate like glass
Resonate in harmony with silver flute's long gasps.

Put your lips to the flute and trust
Magic folk will make their fear art, order at the edge of chaos
And flourish.

Thursday, April 16, 2020

The first flush is lost


The first flush of Darjeeling is lost
The Clippers, scaffolds, as stirrups, swift
The fastest and first, the fattest profits. Cutty
Sark
The asparagus is lost
And all the delicate crops of spring
Gone rotten in this distancing
One day the peppercorns will fail
Glass houses in the trees
Ice caps upon the mountaintops
The monsoon. The pipelines

The first flush of Darjeeling is lost
All to dust
Hands cupped to higher powers
Have you been at prayer these weeks
Have you been delivered
Will we be delivered?
In brick caskets, data in a matrix
They will not wash.
Out, out, damn spot
They will not wash.
And when the sprouts spring again
Will the rains come?
Last year there was no rain.

The first flush of Darjeeling is lost
The last sinews of pettifrocks and pith in Africa
The orangeries have escaped
The exotica is alive
Yellow Mountain is turning green
And the Emperor will die of thirst.

Clouds


Those clouds spreading tears
Wanting thunder
Misunderstand
Weeks of parched blue sky
When the air is clear, still, dry.
This is what brings thunder.


Wednesday, April 01, 2020

Nothing free about markets


There is nothing free about markets
you pay a price
For good, a service, device
Or its called a gift or a theft.
You sell, what you say you are selling
Or they'll be screaming and yelling
As it goes by the name of fraud.
Contracts and laws, predictable rewards
Brought us out of piratical darkness
But there is nothing free about markets.

Saturday, March 28, 2020

All hail the Pangolin

All hail the Malayan Pangolin
That makes the mighty quake and quail
Bader Meinhoff, Al Qaeda
Others have tried and failed.
The Ides of March
Comes a reckoning 
What is it that you great Kings owe
The Malayan Jungle and its Pangolin
Pay now before tomorrow.

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Shrapnel No.27

Willow, my owl
I wish I were as wise
Wish for you
For you
The wish for you
That is for me
An anguished wish
Of rivers where the water's passed
The falling leaf is carried off
The wish of when stars pale lost
Willow my owl my best wishes,

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

No virus for old men


It spares the women and children
The way our liberal leaders won't
They're busy giving rights to armies
And making war on every front
War on every back.

They've the power to make the weather
Can control the tide
And from their high panopticon
There is no place to hide.
Their machines consume a continent
Raise towers to their pride
They bend space and time
With the massive gravity of lies.

And from atop their pyramids
What they fear most of all
Is that little germ they cannot crush
Invisible and small

For it spares the women and the children
But not old men who fly on planes
Emergency, emergency this must be contained.
The fearmongers all gone fearful
And what they fear most of all
Is that germ their armies cannot bribe or crush
Invisible and small.

Monday, March 16, 2020

Scrap Mr


Waist high pale child pulling on the worn wire
Stretches a small mitt to clutch thin thread and tugs, tugs
The loosened lank snake, looking for coppers
Expecting no connection. Fed on scraps
Broken junctions, where the lines are dead.
He with two small others slightly taller
Waddling like bowling pins
Living short circuits. The wide street hill
Gap tooth mill terrace leads to fields, tatoos
Women screaming like squalls in a storm
Men cry when the bunting is flying.
“Scrap Mr?”
Three bowling pins, pipe broke gangland in egg.

II.
Voices, shells, pipes, wires
All break
The yard will bale them
Send the pieces east like wool
Like when sheep first drove people from these hills.
Plunder of the monasteries and rail
The Communists made this
Imperialist dialectic.

Scrap Mr, Scrap Mr
They'll pull on all the strings in this old town
Stripped and scrapped
Stripped and scrapped.

Monday, March 09, 2020

To be


You will be brave for me
For if you are not
Then you are not.
So you will.

To be at all
For you, Ubuntu
You must be.
By me fearless
What you think impossible.

So you shall
Cross the wide water, still
That surrounds. A Coracle
I'll send, your knees
Wobbling, step in.

We both know there are sharks.

Saturday, February 15, 2020

A note


It's almost an injustice
You did not waste any of my time
Gave more in that short current
Than others I was part of didn't
Who were part of me.
The inequality of magic.
It's almost an injustice.

There are men who built their life
On one sentence of my advice
And women too.
I know the pitchforks. the brands the fearful bring.
They claim it justice.

Friday, February 14, 2020

Valentine

When you're famous
For being so powerfully glamorous
And have an office, staff and PA

Then I'll send you piece
To make your staff laugh at least
And you oblivious, can go on with your day.