What do you do?
What do you do when you can’t find your smile and you look to the floor and you stare for a while and your poems sound like paper and your cheese tastes like bread, tap your foot for the demons that dance in your head. And you can’t find the light that shines out of your soul because you sold it for diamonds that you put in a hole, and your spade it got broken and covered in rust so you ...
Tuesday 5th November 2019 4:24 pm
2019
The year is 2019
The U.K and U.S have been taken over by xenophobic sociopaths with floppy hair
People haven’t got time to notice the absurdity, because they’re working 6 jobs
The retirement age is about to be raised to 103
My mate John paid more tax than Amazon did last year - John is a cleaner
We all still miss Freddie Mercury immensely
There’s an app that can track planes acro...
Thursday 26th September 2019 11:20 pm
You want a writing tip?
Get cheated on
Fall for somebody who can’t love you back
Have a breakdown/ a depression
In an abundancy of lack
Set sail upon a voyage
On a prison ship of demons
Your hands chained up in rhymes
While they keelhaul all your reasons
Drown yourself in sorrow
While you’re swimming for the light
Evaporate the line that divides
Your day and night
F...
Friday 26th April 2019 8:23 pm
Behind the Thoughts
I’m smoke on a lung, a line never written
A talk without words, an act of contrition
A scarecrow, a jester, a hullabaloo
Not the thing that you asked for
But the one that will do
The most serious nonsense that never transpired
An energy spike in the night when you’re tired
I’m wired, I’m bricks, I’m a skylight on acid
I’m electro shock therapy
Until you lay placid
...Friday 1st March 2019 11:20 am
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