For Sale:

Light-weight mobile home for sale
Excellent condition - strong and hardwaring 
Never raced
Very low mileage
Bijoux - but fully self-contained
perfect for one
fully waterproof 
surplus to requirements due to recent bereavement 
Open to offers
Contact: Mrs Snail (a relative of the deceased)


When we sleep


I prepare chicken for 
dinner as we are entertaining
this evening. As my wife 

attempts to wake the 
garden from its long winter 
slumber, a train slowly rumbles

into the station across
the end of our garden. I
raise my head briefly. The 

11:20 from London is full with 
people - people who know 
nothing of us, nothing of 

who we are, where we came 
from - our hopes and dreams
and of the places we go to...

when we sleep. 



Is Beyond Me!

With night fall and without the female 
the male of the species
leave the nest and head to the local petrol station.
They go in search of alcohol and rubbish things to eat
the kind of foods the female wouldn't touch nor feed theie off-spring.
The average male needs many cans of lager, found in packs of 4 - the cheaper the better
to wash down the trays of those meatballs - the rip off copies of those by the famous out of town Swedish furniture store.
A favourite of the male are the over-priced sandwiches 
because the male isn't able to place
a filling of their choosing
in-between two slices of Co-ops finest sliced white themselves.
They are then found with handfuls of bags of sweets
and as many packets of crisps as they can carry - of course they didn't bring a bag
so drop some.
Notice how they've gone dressed in the shirts of their favourite football teams 
some nights they go in preparation for an event called the "Big Match"
an event where United get stuffed by City - as usual 
The cans of lager help the male see the best of their team where perhaps there isn't any
especially as United are 15th in the league and falling like a rock!
Fully stocked
and quite unexpectedly 
the males don't return straight to their nests
but stop off at a place known as "the pub" where they are known
to buy hooky gear from a guy called "straight Tony"
as well as having a pint or six
despite their recent purchases from the petrol station.
On finallyreturning to the nest in the wee small hours
we see the female waiting on the door step.
The female will greet the male with
a piercing scream shouting
"If you've spend the bloody rent money again and pissed it up against a wall - I'll bloody well kill you!"
Slaming the door in the the males face
the female returns to the off-spring in the nest
the male
once more
faces another cold night sleeping in his van.
Quite how these two ever made a nest together
and managed to have four children - is beyond me!

(Haiku)

The moon sits amidst
clear night skies and winter fights 
springs awakening.

Career Advisor

All I ever wanted to be sort of waxed and waned
I never had big dreams
like wanting to be a spaceman
or drive a steam train
It all sort of came and went
I did think I might join the navy - but that idea went after 5 minutes
I'm nobody's sailor
it would have been a disaster!
I'm 63 and I still don't know what I want to do for a career!
I'd like to be a world famous poet or artist
or both
and make lots of money from my work
I might go and find a career advisor and see what they say!


Circle - A temporary fix

Scratching an itch
you think...
in scratching it 
you will relieve it
make it better - only...
you're going to damage your skin
if you keep scratching 
you're going to damage your skin
it's just a temporary fix
temporary relief 
you're just fooling the brain that it's all OK - it's cause and effect
sort out the cause!
or like
that long relaxing draw on a cigarette after a busy morning at work
stood in a huddle
outside in the rain
smoking
soothing the need 
the need for a quick fag - whilst it slowly kills you
or
biting the flesh of your finger in rage
subduing your anger 
whilst your teeth 
cut into your skin
or...
drinking
and drinking
and drinking
because you need it
and because you feel better after having it
but you realise just what you have become
and you hate yourself for it
for being an alcoholic 
so you have another drink
drinking to drown your sorrows 
drinking to lift your mood
drinking after a bad day 
damaging
damaging your liver
damaging your life - and slowly killing yourself!

It's a circle
a circle you need to break 
otherwise
...it's all just a temporary fix