O how many houses have we lived in? How many still are standing after each and every fall Of you and me Brother Lock and Sister Key? And I would think it funny were it not so wretched In how it plays out like the cheapest fare This age adores But then what are we, Brother Lock and Sister Key? Only exile, only separation, only disavowal When the...Learn More

Three dozen cycles, give or take a sum The sum of that experience - how to keep running O I know justice, it's a birthright if you're born right And I know how handsome is that trick of the light So don't be mistaken in thinking I'll do right Given the chance to do wrong again and again Summer romeos casing the park By the uniform urinals of...Learn More

Muddy and familiar tracks lead into the room where no-one goes Only I know its true dimensions - In a hotel on a burning shore, derelict and furnished by the war That no-one ever mentions Give it all away, baby give it all away, nobody wants to Hear about the price you pay, you're a dog starved Everybody knows their own, stick to their imaginary...Learn More

Uncanny Island, flickering asylum Strange to me, and ordinary Girt by the ocean, property of ghosts - From dreams of violence Wakening to silence They are born to rule you, like base desires school you Indian miner wants to get to China (through a wide and open Wide and open wound) I don’t recognise you Though you comport almost the same There’s...Learn More

My brother in law is a miner My brother in law is a mixed race man Is he conflicted? Well you could wonder He makes his living deep and under the ground My brother in law loves my sister And that’s the matter, and all the matter There is a tide in the cares of men Mine has gone out, and it’s not coming back in Now nothing is in itself...Learn More

When I was younger I heard a sound Came to me from the dark side of town They were getting the cattle in Never heard such a mournful din To the place where they render the beasts into muck For frozen burgers and discount chuck I caught the chorus on the reel to reel You can still hear them singing But it’s a song that won’t ever be heard On the...Learn More

Nothing gave birth to time Time has no birthday No mum, no dad Nobody ever taught time No social contract, moral code No good, no bad And in the dirt, in the bottle of our poor atmosphere The lesson here is never learnt You feed on dogs bodies, on carcasses of government You tongue the graft over the grief Bastard time, you give no relief But...Learn More

It’s a pleasure, a pleasure to be useful Surprising how long it took me to see… A pleasure to be dutiful Only the question remains…how may I be? Whether in the realm of friendship Where I’m good for a laugh and frequently liquid Or be it the forge of industry I am the deadline, I’m the one you want to stick with As long as there’s a need For as...Learn More

After the fun, after the freedom The discipline of married men? What a fanned out feather paints it rosy What a rank file of flowers make the posey What a limp congregation I was sick before the germ got a handle on I might've been the very cattle it was riding on With the right information Moderate education, middle home What a fella needs to...Learn More

All grace, all our grace, in a dirty thimble In palsy halls some paintings kept In ricket basements a trinket or two Maybe a leopard survives in a zoo No renaissance, no emerald dawn But porn and bloodsport, bloodsport and porn And a song, and some play, a shiny violin In a vault in a fuckwit’s mansion Excavated yesterday - Curse this elevated...Learn More

When should I wash the smell of you from my hands? I've a bottle set by for the afternoon but I've yet to make my plans I been trying to clean up But there's always another nest of glass, another nick above the eye Trails of blood in the grass But the folly wants reason, thinks it's justified That I should parse the matter…? I tried to care for...Learn More

To be A bee, a moth Four wings spread for the soft last touch Of glory sun Remembering blood plums and lips and lemons - One hundred different suns In a hundred different heavens Spied from a rowboat - Stroke, nought is spoken Before you know it, the spell is broken You might wonder where you are Floating on the reservoir I have counted the...Learn More