Like Gold

When I am lost and wandering,
When I am scared and weak,
When I naively look around,
And tears slip down my cheek...
When a dark tempestuous moment comes,
And I know not what to do:
I take a little moment,
Till all my fears are gone,
And I do my best to pass lifes' tests
With the glassick of Goldie Hawn.

Pantoum on Sorrow

Sorrow, you will find no purchase here,
No longer wrapped around my heart,
Sorrow you will find no purchase here,
Shalt not fire those poison'd darts.

No longer wrapped around my heart,
I'm free to follow it's discourses
No longer wrapped around my heart,
No more horses for my courses.

I'm free to follow my discourses,
And commune where I may,
I'm free to follow my discourses,
To visit, trammel or stay.

And commune where I may,
I find I never miss thee,
And commune where I may,
Thou shalt not enter here.

I find I never miss thee,
Though our marriage seemed eternal,
I find I never miss thee,
and the future lights laburnal.

07/09/05

If I...

If I was tired and I was old

my hair was thin, my blood was cold

I'd have as much chance then, I fear

as I do now, with you, my dear.



I'd have as much chance then, I think

As I do now. You fink.3/4/5

Artless

I prayed that it would stop real soon

I prayed that it would never end

The strange disquiet of my loins

Thy fault! o! Artless Friend!3/4/05

Found Poem (buses)

It was a geiger spinning wheel

It was you know,

A geiger spinning wheel!

It was a geiger spinning wheel!



I swear she quoted Nietzche!



I swear she quoted Nietzche!



I swear she quoted Nietzche!



Are we having trout tonight?

Is it trout?

Are we having trout tonight?

Is it trout! 3/4/05

Found Poem 2

(Ask about the attic)

(Ask about the attic)

(Ask about the attic)

Hello, I'm phoning about the flat

we're thinking of taking it on.

(Ask about the attic)

What changes will be made and where?

(Ask about the attic)

Oh! The lounge will become the kitchen?

(Ask about the attic)

And how many bedrooms will there be?

(Ask about the attic)

So who should I ask for? Camilla, you say?

(Ask about the attic)

Alright Camilla, thankin you

(Ask about the attic)

And what will be happening with the attic? 3/4/05

On Preparation by a Pedant

O paint the powdered furnace dry,

clean around the rim!

polish up the skirting boards-

You'll never guess who's coming!

Clean up all the worktops crummery,

vacuum up the fleas!

Pray to god he doesn't get one-

Should I cut a set of keys?

Shave and pluck and wax and paint,

open up the wine,

play some corny ballads,

Don't kiss him dear, you can't!

But, feed him steaks and salads!
3/4/5

define me, malign me

make me complete

discuss me repulse me

O! what a feat!

O! how do I worry?

How do I curse!

Why I don't give a damn dear,

What I think's much worse!
3/4/05

Mister, mister should you guess

That on departure I loved thee less

Than all the days afar I courted

You ought to have more sense imported

Launching noticed I not thee

A growing dandi was there to see

Appearances conveyed the whole

Of the little dalli we courted

Rickety slippit like a newborn foal

It grew and then you kicked it.

There's little required of me now

'cept to disain thy glaikit brow

thy maudlin courtship quickly wilted

And I left stranded like a limpit

At once it was so paltry far

At once I leave it.
3/4/05

Trips upon a rainbow line

Countless glasses of cheap cheap wine

surfing all the midnight through

Infected with thy dreaming

Amie's ears are bent and groaning

However, I must live

And I can only thank you now

For the sweet incentive. 3/4/05

the more I know beauties

The more I like uglies

they're not so concerened

with their fair feathered face

In the mirror.



The more I know people

The more I like brains

To explore in the dark

It is less of a pain

But what wouldn't I give

For homers' permissive! 3/4/05

we lived here, he and I,

And soon we shall be leaving,

Nevermore shall I see your face

Pray god! I forget our meeting!

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O! Woe! Alas! Alack! Anon! 3/4/5