Tuesday, 14 June 2022

Happy birthday, Che Guevara

 Sorry, sir, but only the left brake is on

    "'Apologies for the convenience'"

Only left turns are available,

Meaning hot food items have to travel in the left hand,

The right shoulder occupied by those flies that make

The journey, unlike those who wiped

Off the face to

Make me recall when

Exactly

It was, the first time I

Decided not to kill the spider, but escort it outside,

And isn't killing flies by cycling into them

Also killing spiders?


By continuing to exist I am

Putting myself, Bolivia, Guinea-Bissau, Cuba, Angola,

Argenina, here, others, at risk of

More poetry

Specifically

By me

And,

Precisely,

It's the risk of writing three ideas at once and

The risk of revealing the limitations of each idea,

With every connection cloaked in

A lack of the real connection required for a story

Like Che's,

Or the last time I bought hot food items on the way home,

Dropping a can of ginger beer painfully slowly against the inside of the Porter's fridge door,

Exploding it, spraying it, arching it

Precisely

Onto the face of the young radical behind the counter.

Saturday, 5 March 2022

Listings

pilot night

two or more cultural lenses

you're invited to join us in honour

dive headfirst

a little absurd

Rain as a child's name

when 'Untitled' is used as a title

oil protesters are always a collective and are always different

choreopoem

emerging

projection

messy

lyrical, binaural, stereoscopic

messy

Monday, 3 January 2022

Poem written as self-indulgent procrastination, about my goals, when I should be taking concrete steps towards realising a life in which I am able to find enough time to write poems

Today I want to learn:

what is causing me to sneeze

how to care for the right knee I've suddenly developed

what a sprocket and what a cassette and what all the bike parts look like, so I can take care of the month-old clicking sound

whether it's worth writing to all the people I stopped contacting for minor perceived slights, or out of laziness, or fortune, over the past months and years

which plants prosper where, given the constraints of the flat

BOOMING IN THE BACKGROUND, OR AS AN ASIDE, THERE'S A VOICE: BUT I HAVE TO DO A MAJOR PROJECT, DUE TOMORROW! THIS IS ALL JUST NOISE.

more broadly, what I should do next

or if there should be a next?

what is a good thing to be doing for a while when you're in your forties?

is there anything that would seem likeable to be doing then?

do I have it as good as it will get already, and yet still complain?

how about a skincare regime, or

how to tie good knots

some words in Dutch

also the Italian and Polish courses I started last year

(because I finished flirting with German and Spanish)

maybe Chinese, Russian or Arabic, for an internatonal career

but is it all just more noise on different frequencies?

shouldn't I be focusing on:

how to block out the noise

and carry out an idea

like write a poem?

Certainly that, too, is more noise,

and it doesn't help me sort anything out,

but it will be nice to me, for just this past moment.