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Shall I review the stats and likes
for cats in hats
and dogs riding bikes?
Folk punching lags
and chimps smoking fags
Fails and fatal trips
summarised with witty quips
Spending lost hours
searching through YouTube
desperately hoping
for a glimpse of celeb boob,
nipple shots of newspaper hotties
crashes and bashes
of incompetent yachties,
failed boat launches
staunching the will
fed like swill to pigs for ratings
waiting for fame
with only ourselves
and a poor sense of self
to blame

The Fear

Resist if you will
the insistence,
due to glares
of subway stares
into middle distance,
I know there's risk involved
and it may cause harm
but stay calm
we've evolved
hands held just so
just so you know,
posture and poise
no unwarranted noise,
no thought
or errant hair
for wars bought
and a vacant stare

Isms

Allow me to cheat
if I may
Avow me the feat
of abysmal dismay
Locked in a box
for the rest of my days
Idiot window flashing
and blinking
I'm thinking the days away
Can you see the traces
of monochrome painted faces?
Portraits portraying betrayal
portents failing me
as I'm falling
stalling for time
counting clocks
apoplexic and deflated
I wait
for the expiry
of my best before date

Paper Plates

Divided,
like slices of cake,
for fucks sake,
patiently waiting,
not minding but teeth grinding,
at the back of the queue,
in the hope I'll get a small taste of you.
Am I too needy?
wanton and greedy?
Arriving too late to a bare empty plate,
fingers and thumbs I'm picking up crumbs
to compress sponge and smears of cream
into dreams,
a pressing resemblance
of something I once consumed

Would Work

With blunt tools
are fashioned stumped fools.
Chipped and worn chisels
form whipped from birth wastrels.
Grinding fresh edges
to cut
with blinding rash pledges
Wedges and grudges driven deep
to split grain
for planes to follow
Bit and drill to bore
deep holes
where none existed before
Tight gripped vice like hold
the unrelenting measure
of a pressure
applied to describe
a much better mold