So sharp

My pens and pencils are all well prepared
I have got a box of rubbers too
The pencils are so sharp they read my mind
And write down what they want me not to do

I am obsessed with implements and tools
But what are they without a task  to do?
Pens can write the words of any fool
As thinking is still legal although free

In my dreams I  meet with my old man
He wants me to go with him to Japan
I cannot get my pills inside my can
Thus I  will become an also ran

For nonsense is the wisdom of the Least
And all are welcome at the Pauper’s Feast

“Human Punctures”

My  new book “Human Punctures” will be published if and only if we stay in the EU.If you are Dutch please email me for a free tyre repair kit
You will be happy to know my electricity payments have not risen this year so no fuse wire is needed.
My Gas Service is being conducted by the Vicar as snow stopped British Gas from getting  to me.
My water is being analysed by Oxford University and I may be rewarded  by free leaks
I will have a bath this year.Then next year I’ll have a  toilet.
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  • Many  men’s hands make the lights work free
  • Two beds are better than one if you hate your  legs touching in the night.
  • Too many rooks died in the broth.
    Pleasure twice, cut at once
    You can’t have your cake and eat  my shoe
    A bird in the band is worth  a coo in the bush.
    The bride comes before all the maids
  • Don’t haunt Charles Dickens before he’s lost
    Is it   today  tomorrow?
    Please bite clowns

Inside out, no person saw me float

The rain fell on my new striped woollen coat
The stripes are red and blue and green and white
It struck me that  it needed creosote

To save my coat ,I turned it inside out
I started a new fashion or a blight.
The rain fell on my new striped woollen coat

My mind was fey and I was dull with doubt
Thought has never offered much delight
It struck me that such  fancies are remote

Inside out, no person saw  me float
Through the  swollen gutter water’s  grates
The water got a grip on my  faux stoat

Is this the Flood, or merely a blocked spout?
It’s hard to judge when  staying alive’s  one’s fate
It struck me that such garments are too “haute”

My main fault is of being too polite
Which makes men of a sullen type ignite
The rain fell on my new striped woollen coat
I found it is acrylic, and it smokes

 

 

 

 

 

Tell them home is where to start

Stan was cooking tea that day,

While his wife went out to play.

He cooked a pie of frogs and cress,

He wanted to impress.

Stan was wearing his old clothes.

Where old clothes come from,no-one knows.

He meant to change when he was done,

So he and Mary could have fun.

But Anne his neighbour rang the bell,

Stan was so surprised he fell.

He hit his head upon the stove,

And his poor scalp turned blue and mauve.

Ring 999 and ask for Dave,

This man is old yet must be saved

The paramedic gave him glue

To stick together his old shoe.

Then he rubbed on arnica..

His  head looked like Guernica.

“Get the camera,take a pic.”

Stan was feeling rather sick.

“How can you use my wounds as art?

Rest assured I’ll take no part.”

He hit the camera with his stick,

And felled his mistress with a brick.

So now they’re in a mixed sex ward,

This experience can be shared.

They get their food at 3 am

Half for the ladies,half for the men.

The doctor asked them what went wrong.

Both of them had lost their tongues.

Neither would say what they’d done!

Now their anger is all gone.

The moral of my myth is this:

Being an  adult is not bliss.

Mistresses can be a pain,

Especially if they’re very vain.

And better not to look for love,

Except with cats or sweet white doves.

Let your neighbour love you less!

And don’t make comments on his dress.

And as for voyeurs,keep a crutch.

Hit them hard, but not too much.

If they want a work of Art,

Tell them home is where to start.

How like a false god are my own beliefs

How like a prison are my own beliefs
Beliefs about my world and my desires
To give them up might give me much relief
Yet wish for safety  grips those who aspire

Anxiety will  curtail and make us tired
Its cheap  and free, no pill will give relief
Nor pacify the  tangles of barbed wire
How like a false god are my own beliefs

 

No crown  for she who suckles on  her grief
Nor for those who secretly are liars
Nor for those who fall like early leaves
When autumn has not lit its smokey fires

A new language of love may set us free
If only I can gently hold back me

 

Imprisoned spirits

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How like a prison   is my cubicle;

A prison,a trap, a cell,a place of fear.

For humans,this  is truth indubitable;

We need to roam ,to see,to smell,to hear.

 

Yet in the bureaucrat realm , we must observe,

The rules laid down by  generations gone.

And from their ancient code we cannot swerve.

Even if by rules we are undone.

 

Did Euclid discover how grave was a bath?

Did Moses fear  to see the burning bush?

Did Einstein follow someone’s else’s path?

Did Socrates  give voice to utter trash?

 

Imprisoned spirits are to revolution called.

Lest by Ariel they should be mauled.