#English #XXCentury #XXICentury
He splashed down in rough seas off… I watched through a coin-op telesc… with a lollipop stick as a trawler… of the waves and ferried him back… Control on a trading estate near t…
Here on the Hard, you’re welcome… there’s a flat fee of a quid for p… And wandering over the dunes, who… for the view: an endless estate of… kept out of the bay by the dam-wal…
Of all the public places, dear to make a scene, I’ve chosen here. Of all the doorways in the world to choose to sleep, I’ve chosen yo… I’m on the street, under the stars…
I was pegging out your lime-green… you were hoping the last of the su… might sip the last few beads of dr… from its lime-green hem. I had a blister-stigmata the size…
It begins as a house, an end terra… in this case but it will not stop there. Soon i… an avenue which cambers arrogantly past the…
“Which of these films was Dirk Bo… not in? One hundredweight of bauxi… makes how much aluminium? how many tales in ‘The Decameron’… General Studies, the upper sixth,…
Five pounds fifty in change, exact… a library card on its date of expi… A postcard stamped, unwritten, but franked, a pocket size diary slashed with a…
I have not bummed across America with only a dollar to spare, one p… of busted Levi’s and a bowie knife… I have lived with thieves in Manc… I have not padded through the Taj…
I am very bothered when I think of the bad things I have done in m… Not least that time in the chemist… when I held a pair of scissors by… and played the handles
We hunted, swept the planet pole t… to capture a glimpse of that rare… Through a thermal lens we spotted… picked up the trail of nuggety fae… then tagged the shiniest beast in…
Just how it came to rest where it… miles out, miles from the last far… was a fair question. Dropped by hu… or aeroplane perhaps for some reas… put down as a cairn or marker, the…
We went out into the school yard together, me… whose name and face I don’t remember. We were testing… of the human voice:
In later life I retired from poet… ploughed the profits into a family restaurant in the town of Holzminden, in lowe… It was small and traditional:
The sun comes like a head through last night’s turtleneck. A pigeon in the yard turns tail and offers me a card. Any card. From pillar to post, a pantomime
Anyone here had a go at themselves for a laugh? Anyone opened their w… with a blade in the bath? Those in… at the back, listen hard. Those at… in the know, those of us who have,…