Monday, February 06, 2023

Hope is more than tobacco

 Hope is more than tobacco


I’ve got a woman 

And they fulfilled my dreams

Gave me love and trouble

In equal means

Hope rises wherever I go

in this capital place,

It's not just the tobacco

It’s their never ending face

 *

Soft white pompoms dangle

round their business suit neck

Notetaking & munching

turning me into a 

train wreck

 *

Su served my order, oblivious

to changes on the menu

“C setto unavailable” says another

And neither am I

*

Unavailable for Pompom 

Unavailable for Su

For 

I've got a woman and 

in equal means:

*

They gave me love and trouble

and fulfilled my dreams

*

I’ve got a woman who I love

Sunday, February 05, 2023

Irish landlord


Since we handed over the keys to an Irish landlord

the mood has been lightened;

Kennedy changed the gears,

introduced Dublin-made-parts

And all parts tightened.


All seemed right with our earnest Irish landlord

But suddenly the screws were loose

and Sean made the House rough

Old Marquis wouldn't recognise the place

if he watches from his distant caboose


Looking upwards thanks to our trusty landlord

The league's too small for our Dublin Framework

Duffy and Erhahon primed and ready

& the bank will soon look palatial:

*

This Anglo-Irish agreement will surely work

*

Saturday, February 04, 2023

Pixie Perfect

Pixie Perfect



Izumi saved my day
which started at a canter in 10
Coffees in and doubt soon outed
Q codes offering a fine fine brew

I sailed swift though Babylon
lacking aim or purpose strong
Needing a place to dock
sing song rock 

(drown the ever-present tick tock)

And Izumi was there waiting
Neither to rock nor to mock
But to regale True Tales
of popular cats with similar sounds:

Lawrence and Rollins
Collins and Frame
Keiji Haino 
Unspeakable winos

Her pastels painted a popular pitch
Much to my taste and for which?
Mizutani? Nakatani? 
I tell you Sunny:

Izumi 
You saved my day

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Friday, February 03, 2023

Banking Berk

Banking Berk




Banking Work

Sue me Tomi and screw me Tomoko

Stew of Kiki and nails of Galileo

The shame was intense

The shame did humiliate

Taking us over.


Shame as I forgot sets of numbers 

Passwords escaping recall

Ansho bangos that I used daily

in multiple types of shopping mall


But I forgot 

And clouds appeared in my eyes

"He might as well be in a cot

A mother coddling him in her thighs."


This is indeed what you have got


The finale of thousands of choices made (not)

that unless you fix will make you fade

And make the lack of banking work

turn you into a 

24-carat berk.

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Thursday, February 02, 2023

Unaffordable justice




The quest for cosmic justice?

Broken.
A GRE General Test book?
Bespoken
(but not for me)

Past dreams gone off to Book Off ...

for free
No credits nor payment requested
Utopian
(only way I can be)

No property: I can't go home 
unless I become an Ibis Hotel Man;
No security: warmth withheld 
In hands pulled towards me.

Am I so wrong to worry about 
Security in Old Age
when the agency in my hands 
is crumbling?

Was I so wrong 
to choose to be landlocked 
in love's eternal trap?
No.

But I shall not shake;
For love's untidy evidence 
walks towards me 
Requiring more cash!

It's the Way of the World
A Payment to The System

No, there ain't no 
Cosmic Justice
 my friend

Not in this life, anyway,

***

The blessings I've had though!

Who cares if I 
give much away
for free?

***

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