Friday 28 June 2013

Crosses

Haunting
A friend
Friends
Family

I realise
I too am followed
A prevailing childhood souvenir
Appearing in unexpected places
Constantly in the background
Imposing on everyday objects
A sign
A tree
A necklace

Demanding a conscience
And filling it with guilt
The body
The blood
The unholy human urges

Sometimes
Even
I feel an urge
To say grace



(The inspiration: once you see a crucifix once)

Saturday 22 June 2013

Uncolliding

Bending along curves
Discussing wealth & wisdom
Bury exposed hopes and pray for them
Prey in them
Engorge on them
But do not be ashamed
Apparitions follow us all when the lights are out

Just as despondency dissolved in the old days
Dance in the space
Underneath awareness
Soulless phenomenon
Sounding out the syllables
Disclosing nothing to many
And all to few

Feverish desolation at the curse of ego
The joy of ego
Don't go jousting the peasantry
Await a match worth you selflessness

Winery of the minds eye
Discover nothing
But blissful satisfaction
                                    of the now

Tuesday 18 June 2013

A Short One



Cracks in the carpet
Through which demons escape
Invisible but for their effect on the people they encounter

The Insensibility of Sensibility



The Insensibility of Sensibility (Aka Accidentally Jane Austin)

The problem is not asking questions
The other problem is asking too many questions
Either way
None of it makes sense

We consume baby cow food
We eat chicken periods
We watch far too many American actors
Our cars run on million year old animals and plants
Our children run on Apple© products
One in ten people in Australia live alone

That’s just the surface
Scratch it and the itchy addiction begins
Society’s a bore

We live long lives
Minimum physical complaints
Maximum mental ills

Thank God for the Modern World
Or
Should that be
Thank Richard Dawkins?

Sunday 9 June 2013

An Ode to Credit Cards



Oh hail the mighty credit card
You allow near endless purchasing power
You give strength to all your lucky disciples
Strength to shout drinks
Strength to dress well
Strength to walk confidently down the street
More importantly
You give hope
Hope that the bill will never have to be paid
Therein lies the majesty of the credit card
Oh! That hope
Endless, fickle hope

And for me
I just hope I never get one

Friday 7 June 2013

Rule-ing



Move through the colours
Listed
Named
Filed
Put aside

Take out all the pencils
Order them based on thickness, 
Softness
Give them letters,
Or numbers
Put them neatly away

Lists of animals
Places
People

Create a definition of beauty
Score every thing on a scale
Ordered
Concise
No need for discussion

The entire world
Intimately immaculate
Properly pompous

The whole thing becomes worthless

Thursday 6 June 2013

I am a miss



I am a miss
Not amiss
Not a “ms”
I am a miss

Why?
You ask
Women’s rights allow us to be called ms
You say
It’s the female equivalent of mr
You state
It removes the importance of marriage

I get that
I reply
But, I am a miss
And here’s why

I’m not married
I’m more than happy for people to know that
It is part of who I am

So give me the right to tick the “ms” box
But don’t you dare take away my “miss” box
Because I am a miss

Wednesday 5 June 2013

Arrogant Pigeon



Arrogant pigeon
Bobbing by like he owns the place
The toughest birds hang out in the city

Before I have time to mull over this thought and its possible metaphorical elegance, my attention is stolen away

A murder of crows
Ripping apart a dead mouse
A young guy walks by
Without noticing
Then a kid on a pink scooter and her parents
Each, in turn, missing the gory scene
All the passers by pass by
The crows continue to tear at the creature
And I watch