those pot hole eyes peeringthrough the lysergic purgewitness only the near, never the farlicentious attacks of false intentionsare the things you’ll rememberduring those lonely repasts… Read More

The work is never endingThe work goes on and onThe means of salvation?The route to damnation?Is not for me to judgeNor am I in the position to Even if I couldI was told the road of excessLea… Read More

I’m in chemical confinementl a s t ..o f f.. t h e.. b l o c k sheld in a generous solution replete with aspic crownmaybe something I saidcrossed that invisible lineI offered them cont… Read More

me and my dirty feet do well enoughour stony egress from domestic strifewas sanctioned by our physicianand relayed by express ridersacross the kitchen tablein a flourish of insult and injury… Read More

I’m coming cleancause it’s good for my soulI stole them words from a cracker boxI’m leaving town on a bus later ona circuitous route through the badlandsthrow any blood hou… Read More

where do you get your sharps?I need to know they’re cleanI’m allergic to dirty thingsso don’t touch my pistolunless you wash your handsI get more trouble that waythan oppos… Read More

deep inside your psycho tenementwhere I have eaten sacred rootsyou store up secret treasures of dirty lies and bitter truthsI did not return for your disclosureI have long since ceased to ca… Read More

Three’s crowd darlin’Did no one tell you that?Three caused more murdersThan greed ever doneAnd baby that’s a factThere’s a man odour in hereLike the smell of dying do… Read More

There was a crock of shit at the end of my rainbow. That’s the very first time I was gifted anything for nothing. There’s irony in that statement cause brothers and sisters &ndas&hell…Read More

a good night’s rest, so they sayis the next best thing to sleepbut I can’t stay still long enoughto get me some reliefI close my eyes on the worldto reveal a world withinI can&rs&hell…Read More

we were onceas shooting starsand countedourselves blessedfor we loved each other so dearlythat people said we were obsessedbut we strayed tooclose to Earthand gravitationput us to the testwe… Read More

I wish you’d take your can of worms and collect your dirty sheets. I don’t care where you go, or if you pound the streets. Why don’t you gather your scant belongings, it re… Read More

I just dummy up these days. No one cares to hear what I have to say. But I have seen what I have seen and I know what I know. I have witnessed our faint progress beneath remote uncaring star… Read More

it’s the stony cold silenceof the morning after the savage beating the night beforeit’s that fragile feelingof softly trembleand of crimson stainson the killing floorthe dawn rev… Read More

I got to learn to pace myself – too many hours spent hammering the keyboard has left me weary. I need a good read to fuel my head. I’m sick of ekphrastic gesticulations. I’… Read More

for those we are about to deceivemay the profits make us truly gratefuland though we have been known to fold our cards too early we still catch them worms cause there ain’t no flies on… Read More

There was arsenic in his voice, boozy and bitter with recrimination, dark and foreboding as a winter storm. He was hostage to his fate; tied down by a wife and mewling brats and locked into… Read More

3 am againand my mechanismis stretched to breakingtore a line from scriptureblessed are the poor in spiritfor they are on their todthey haunt the early hourssearching for their Godbut you kn… Read More

For what it’s worthNot one hair's breadthSeparates any of usThe worst and bestWe are all of us castIn the imperfect imageOf a mythic GodWith our feet of clayAnd star filled eyesFlawed… Read More

Skid row junkies shuffle dance like broken bears. They smile spoiled milk and stink of stale sweat and rotted cloth. The zombie nation has risen. Semi stiff cardboard men – flaccid hum… Read More

you were famousfor the snatch and flightthe derailleur gearsand the headlights brightthose diamond drapeswith shiny stud collarssharp as razor billsin assorted coloursyou always knew the sco… Read More

you either got itor you don’t got itsome folkdon’t have the earsfor itsome folkdon’t have the eyesthey’d be missing outon something specialfor most of the timeso let… Read More

the calendar of memoriesmeasures out the hoursin balmy summer afternoonsand sudden April showersand I remember heras snowflakes lost in play I was a damp November mornand she was Christmas d… Read More

resisting the impulse now that’s the trickthe difficult thingonce I’m committedto the spontaneousand the combustiblethere’s no alteringmy disastrous courseno temporary fudg… Read More

blow me a kisssingle returnreturning homea hard earned dayof daydreams and negotiated silenceinner peacefor pieces of skythe heavens shout out with special relevanceblue and vast cavernous s… Read More

I was all fired upon the fleshy surfacebut shaken in the interiorand just a bit ashamedI was not preparedto stage an encoretrust me she said there will be pleasureinside the painbut empty pr… Read More

and we were only children with starlight in our hairand times were sweeter thenwhen we lived without a carefor we were fearless travellerswho had yet to pay the fare Read More

he’s got a little sugarin his tankI don’t mind thatbut he just crossed the linewith an unfamiliar touchI wasn’t really offendedbut this guy is my friendI don’t know h… Read More

they say that pain subsidesthe way old buildings doto sink slowly from the memoryand disappear from viewthey say that time’s a healerbut that isn’t always trueand I wanted you to… Read More

here’s to those louche lounge lizardsand licentious feline derelictswho propped me up to dip my pocketsand barfly angels who furnished me with fleshbut were blameless in my corruption… Read More

I’m not running from anythingI’ve outdistanced my regretsand there are no dark secretsthat I’m trying to forgetI don’t drink to rememberI drink for the effectbut this… Read More

was that real enough for you?I can still taste the bloodis there anything better than that?I should fuckin’ well hope soso you think you’ve had enough?who was that cat on the cro… Read More

the convenient fictions that constitute the truthcan carve intractable issuesthat remain unresolved during a lifetime of kitchen sink dramas for everyone you meet will take a bite of youbut… Read More

I turned a new leafshed my skinsloughed of my previousand wiped the slate cleanthe new and shinyappeals to my egoworldly still, but cleansleek and naturalin mint conditionwithout formover di… Read More

It is perhaps a measureof my perversitythat I share no faithnor take comfort inthe great hereafterbecause facts are so very rareand immutable in naturewhereas books are all fictitiouswhateve… Read More

I don’t fancy yoursthat’s not the worst of itno one twisted my armI was hostage to opportunityawakening in a stranger’s lairthere’s a sense of shudderin these awkward… Read More

The narrow bandwidth channels acting as conduits for the data colloquially referred to as knowledge have become irrelevant. However, it is deemed to be in the national interest to close down… Read More

Perhaps I was reckless, but it was one of those fight or flight situations and I don’t run too well these days. I smelled trouble; he filled the room with its stench. Men like that don… Read More

In my youth blood tainted carrion birds stole my grub stake and poisoned my prized ambitions with unrefined cynicism. I would have turned the other cheek given the opportunity, but they had… Read More

Back in the day punters flocked to sample our merchandise; such was the purity of the kit we were peddling. Much money was made, but many lives were lost in the game of dragons. Those were e… Read More

Down the hatchGreat draughts of liquid corruptionHave burned my gulletAnd scourged my brain panIt’s a lethal anaesthetic And a poor substitute for euphoriaBottoms upI should be so luck… Read More

  they frolicked in the warmth of the sun until they shone like children then they struck out for the summit and beckoned me to join them but I simply could not follow no, not wit… Read More

I’ve got my tourist face onall curious confusionand hopeful mistrustthe world is tilting southso I strike a jaunty angleby way of compensationI must look like a drunknot too far from t… Read More

I met my morning with a lithium flushthe crew preferred the traditional libationswe stood unfurled in our own skinsbefore an unscheduled eclipseand stumbled blindly in the darkour confusion… Read More

That rat faced fucker is slicker than deer guts on a door knob. They say he’s making decent money pimping refugees and extorting pennies from the homeless. From what I know of him he&r&hell…Read More

I seen them on my spectrum analyser. Those cats who vary their accounts with worn tongues and righteous jowls. I never fixed a device to sift their broken promises. I just rode the punches a… Read More

She gave me a semiwith just a winkand a smilethat’s the most actionI’ve had in yearsThere was little chance I knowof her reciprocationbut I deployed my flirtation devices in the… Read More

It takes one to know one they say and brother I know you you’re the perpetual outsider another square peg stuffed into the wrong shoe you’ve ascertained the facts but still don… Read More

It wasn’t the overdose It was the vomit that killed him Drowning in vomit No way for the beautiful to go And he was beautiful in so many ways So when I think of him As I often do I… Read More

I know the stuff is poison, but I neck it anyway. It’s a psychic shield against the vicissitudes of strife. What a happy delusion to carry around in my head. A soft and fuzzy lie I li… Read More

She gave me everything She gave me all her hopes and dreams She shared all her crazy schemes With her little girl lost routine Yes, she gave me everything Looking back it seems I’d so… Read More

it’s a heavy arithmetic that measures out the hours and subtracts the days of our reckoning time spent more in hope than knowledge of a final destination at journey’s end… Read More

She had suspicions, but that’s all she had. I denied everything, but my denials only made her more insistent. She started to cast names. She said I was a liar and a cheat. She called… Read More

They say that hunger makes thieves of us all and that poverty lurks in slender pay packets. Many of us now live hand to mouth and day to day. Under competent governance poverty would be s… Read More

I pulled the plug the dividends were huge I cut the chord and learned how to breathe I renounce violence in its every dimension I own my fear if fear becomes me When pricked I bleed When so… Read More

There is more smoke than fire in this dystopia Less fact than fiction in the corridors of power These are the days of empty rhetoric Of pointing fingers and wagging tongues This is not the… Read More

They’re busing migrants to the border. These huddled masses draw their last free breath beneath the statue of bigotry. We’re building walls and digging trenches. Planting t… Read More

He looked like a big dog. He barked like a big dog. I was suitably unimpressed. I’d forgotten to be afraid. Somewhere along the road I’d shed my fear and the casual air of viole… Read More

I said a prayer to the highway god. Please don’t let me die alone Out on this road So far from home They say that hungry worms conspire to rend the flesh of the recently expired. T… Read More

it’s said the author lacks a soul but he’s just sick and tired of living on the dole the objects he desired the trinkets that he stole the contraband acquired have broken his p… Read More

She had turned her dressing table into a shrine and it broke my heart to see; there were photographs, postcards, letters, jewellery, trinkets and all the bric-a-brac of romance. Two years a… Read More

Big Malky went down hard. He took a hell of a beating before he cracked, but crack he did. After a couple of hours of relentless punishment he was sobbing like a baby and pleading for his l… Read More

We all go out to harvest bones in the wilderness. It’s a world away from titties and beer, but it puts meat on the table and that’s what sifts the men from the boys. Bone men d… Read More

his passing was no surprise they said he’d been living on borrowed time but baby it’s all borrowed time and when I dummy up I can hear my life grow fainter with every heartbea… Read More

way back when in the happy ever after when we all got by solely on the never never not just now and then but now, then and forever   they said times were changing in the form of… Read More

they don’t give you much room around here they’ll steal yer face or stamp on yer stones just for a chuckle but not me I relinquished the instruments of violence many years ago… Read More

I need a doctor to tend to my blues send me a physician who can prescribe god’s own medicine a scripture green and gold a liturgy of soft and splendid fancies the only elixir that&r&helli…Read More

  they commandeered my zap, my zeal, my mojo they said it was in the national interest here come the smiles I have no soul no zeal, no mojo I’m lying through my plastic t… Read More

    got my beast on I’m the uncrowned king of countless seasons left out in the rain the collateral damage I caused in ignorance was simply staggering those cretinou… Read More

my head was hurting like a long loud scream she hit a vein right away the black wind blew the relief was palpable some men prefer love on their haunches I just steam on in all suited up th… Read More

It was Easter Sunday and the city was dead. It looked like the resurrection had been cancelled for another year. Still, the off licences were still open – so it wasn’t a dead lo… Read More

  Frank was looking forward to a wee break in Florida. A fortnight in the sun would wash away the winter blues with their cauld squalls and icy rain; a break from the eternal gloom and… Read More

  That cunt’s been let off his lead. He got his divorce papers last week and now he’s suited, booted and off up the toon on the razzle. I wish ah wiz in his shoes – no… Read More

the whole world has gone tits up and I’m nailed in place as a latent appendage to my own living room but the sorry critters who really take the biscuit are knocking doors an… Read More

a trail of crumbs an A to Z a broken twig a cup of tea a torn photograph a letter from mum the faulty map and rule of thumb the careless slap that leaves you numb will help find y… Read More

Tired yet baleful concrete tenements glowered down on deserted streets during the daytime and the place seemed as if it were long ago abandoned by man. It was only during the night that the… Read More

  We ran and ran until our legs would carry us no more – our pursuers had stopped chasing us a mile back – but we were running for the joy of it. We were gasping and panting… Read More

your jailers send their most convivial regards they offer you 10% off your next purchase and to ensure your complete cooperation remind you that they have hostages the wheels of commerc… Read More

  I was five or six when my father decided that it was time I learned to swim. So one Saturday morning we set out together for the lido in the park. It was located close to where the ne… Read More

we cling to the great curve with our suicide pants bunched around our ankles and our arses hanging in the wind we long ago abandoned any pretence of modesty and our protestations of innoce… Read More

It was in the days following decimalisation when our pockets bulged with useless pennies. We’d take our coins down to the railway yard and place them on the tracks where great Type Tw… Read More

To most people he was a leper, a pariah and a filthy pervert. Remember those were the days when the most enlightened opinion thought of homosexuality as a disease and the least considered i… Read More