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Monday, 31 March 2025
Thursday, 27 March 2025
You are Britain’s Fairest Man (amended draft/unfinished)
Officer pushed him. He went forward.
Thought he had hit his head.
Expected blood beneath
the surface of the skin
or dead tissue above
the surface hair is an attribute,
part of the human body
it breaks into an arrangement
or configuration
the category of a weapon elegised to class
a pricket gathering
at the base of emergency situations,
with just enough hope
below that blood filled glow
is yours QC on moonbeams
a cruel vector of birchen pens,
The Director of Public Prosecutions
QC Keir Starmer
a redoubtable wielding roflcopter
of justice drugged
to taskforce a plea-filled earglow
your children's hopes
as burnt missives imagine
commercial leases imagine
the courtyard tribunal apex
upon which the presiding authority sat
imagine inside these delicate circles
that conceit hails exception
lawfully still like garlands
or stars circling together tonight
delighting on such a night
& the clouds that stilled like
Justices Face & not twist about
for public taste our legally enshrined
& age-old tradition spiked to peace
the Lauding State whittling germane
all-powerful love creates
& tends above,
to all things in its care
that's flashing through me right here!
& you repeat to stuttering
from The Last Stars uttering
The Power of the Bar!
Give us tools,
arguments & defence lines
to allow us to say
water cannons are necessary
plastic bullets permissible & all day
as to its deterring eternal embrace
is blissful & with good goodness
is their existence
policing over personnel codes
& what constitutes
a weapon previously growed?
Out The History of Judgecraft
alone as courts depart
merely ciphers for
Twenty-Four-Hour sittings
no pause on weekends
to increase the rate of convictions
& made a personal appearance
at 4am Highbury Magistrates Court
Morale Boost. Core Quality Standards.
Billing my head’s so burnt –
a thousand times before.
Scab who cried a placard weaponised
& in the end,
you’re just a disgusting shite
like tar & sulphur skein
pushed within
filing to desist in the portcullis
again these accoutrements meet
human rights guidelines
understand here:
Core Quality Standards
there's no remit
in a Snooper’s Charter
desist on rapid riot
prosecutions hovering roses
curves like burning above
as hearts may contest
yet words are truest,
said from clearest gathering
around its apex,
as framed I am here,
in my proper place.
It’s hard to see how anyone escapes.
Day may smile on us with odd gleams
yet night entwines us
in doorweb creaks,
a eulogising speech
breaks against my teeth
streamlining statutories
The Knight of the Realm,
raised to codes of conduct
granular predecessors
unremitting work ethics
again the emptiest spaces emerge
bleaches behind us,
a standing worth
& what was said
Sir State,
You are a perfectly decent
human being!
& servants perquisites
& protections
listening advisers,
exercises & focus groups
hatreds stilled to the edge
to receive on your knees
Court-news murdered close
your mouth & nose!
You are Britain’s Fairest Man.
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
The Torn Factory (draft/unfinished)
The Torn Factory
Your father as a territory manager
& midstream technology products
the rim of the sky
we never speak of it
that twilight Cameron Schlumberger Company
floating above Product Managers
scoured Surface Solutions
said aloud under Deepwater
Horizon Oil Spill 2010 Blowout Preventer
the last line of defence -(amended)
your father as a territory manager
spewing oil & gas into Gulf waters for 87 days,
a Filipino maid bent
on Jerusalem stone modified in China
the Macondo Well everything is upside down
inside its darkness
the largest in Marine history,
The American International School of Muscat
over whorls of punishment
& watching
comradesolidarity mewling
in circles circles
its mutual fear stage lit
wanting to be an immigrant
or to become one,
the 87-day-long
wait for thistles
impossible in the sun
& categorically barred feelings
nurse-like Contract Negotiations
White Fathers English Faces
SGV Frac Valves
machined aluminium
in red zones, hands
Kangaroo Court
WhatsApp Curse
talk about radical politics,
the infirmed the dead
the dead end red zones
& doggo SMS anodised cascade
efforts to bring it under control
a love tool you use on yourself
after to shame me alone
to spelling & unspelling
new Euclids Modern Homes
covered in ice
& gone suddenly
firebrands huddled
in the Torn Factory,
I believe in paranoia now
& the mad perfection of the disease
no matter what gratuitous things people do
to one another
it is best a scapegoat
is painted luminous yellow
& the anonymity of the firing squad
Whatsapp Kangaroo
Court Social Darwinism
cloisters one way glass
patio to soft glades
you use it on yourself at night
due process
gavel nixed metal
rond-points that turn
on a ruined Eherecht
terms & conditions
signed in the dark
synthetic blood provisions
things float in natural unison
& the unapproachable core
of that anonymity
burns around its edges
a major offshore accident,
your father as a territory manager
The High Density-Polyethylene
Houses just burn in daylight
remember & the endless
vanguards around
Purchese Street
Open Space diversionary concrete
Botched up Artwork
depicting
intra sexual, intra working class
love is a sadistic act
under the Emergency Powers Act,
an upturned ark
axel grease in the NHS hospital
again & the vocab
slips characteristic
auto-didact drugs I know
but class struggle
is really Customer Service
& the prescriptions
nothing more now
being symbolically dead
everybody has tears in their eyes
but does not mind them being there
probably doesn't even know
there are complex passwords
numerical codes
& physical keys,
& what it means
to undarken light somewhere
with peak freedom
the red tape rolodex
wraps around my neck
sheds a rubber stamp