Skewer Spear Immunise. A tiny chrome harpoon stuck into your flabby thighs will make sure you’re immune. A […]
Flu jab
Silent falls the garden
The larks no longer fear the lawn soundly sleeps the shrew. Sparrows splash in sunlit pools, while wrens […]
Dust to dust
The new me is an older me. The old me once was young. Young me has no future […]
The Today programme
Some mornings when I wake up I remember to forget. They’re the ones I start the day without […]
Sooner or later
We’re all in eternity’s anteroom, waiting to step through the door. None of us knows when our name […]
The cleaner
A cleaner sees her client in the shop She doesn’t recognise me (We’ve never met in person) but […]
Silt
You can’t put out water with fire, burn off the sea in a day, outswim a tide of […]
Pas de chat
A better ballerina I bet I’ll never meet than my cat astride a fence post, so sure upon […]
Moustache
I couldn’t help but comment on that fiery facial fur, not thinking my kind words could be taken […]
Memories of times past
Remember when you used to be able to shit without a smartphone, and loosen your sphincter without a […]
Am I dying already?
Do I already own the clothes I’ll die in? The songs I won’t hear from my casket? What […]
Not so smart phone
Autocorrect corrects me less than I correct it. Its only purpose seems to be to make me look […]
An eye for an I
Deleted myself today. Wrote ‘love you’ without saying who. Not who to… (which was you) …only ‘I’ went […]
Telebomb
They took all the money they’d saved up for bombs and spent it on healthcare instead then ran […]
Almost is enough
It’s quite alright to live a life of ‘almost’ if you tried. To stretch for stars but barely […]
