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

* 

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

*

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

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.

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?

***

Banks of Light

BANKS OF LIGHT

A TIME OF ABRAHAM

Lucy's eyes glistened on the bank

as we walked to the nettled library

***

So we went off together...

***

A TIME OF CHRIST

Kate's glittering jewels far outranked

the joy of viewing Match of the Day

A TIME OF MO KUN

 

Hiro's hips sank him in a pleasure cell

where joy is standardised and free

A TIME OF LUCIFER

Rika's moves promised unfettered, well ...

the value of which I Wouldn't See

***

So I went off her...

***

Mo slaughted Lucifer, 

powered by the energies 

of Abraham and Christ