all truth is relative all judgements subjective nothing’s as concrete as you’re led to believe history is a lie and so are you but it’s too late now to sing that song I had my special k for breakfast and fell down a rabbit hole all the world’s tired old clichés are gnawing on my bones I stand accused of stacking the deck and playing by my own rules but I don’t care how far I go as long as I get my jelly roll I’m talking now as a friend who understands the violence that breeds conformity I have to stay real with myself I don’t always do as I’m told
16 April 2024
15 April 2024
rehabilitation
they sent a man from the council to survey my state of being he condemned the building before he crushed my expectations and flushed them down the crapper he has a place in the country said I could get my head right there he promised me the good life as he understood it in supported living fucking do gooder has me on his list but I won’t move an inch I’ve embraced self improvement I’m seeing beneficial angles there might just be a score in this rehabilitation racket
10 April 2024
dear reader
we are all of us acquainted with sorrow and that being said we’re maybe better for it if that’s the natural order and it seems to be dear reader we have suffered we have suffered to our shame I hope for your sake that your greatest regret in this season of regrets was an affair of the heart that’s where it counts because that’s the best of us that’s where we live love and betrayal it’s a fearsome thing but the crimes we commit for love are perhaps our saving grace
9 April 2024
an empire of lies
don’t worry I’m not about to forgive you it’s not my place to forgive you people tell lies for all sorts of reasons it doesn’t mean they are bad it doesn’t make them wrong sometimes we lie to spare the feelings of others most of the time we lie because we are afraid fear makes liars of us all whole civilisations have been built on well-intentioned lies I know you meant no harm I’m sure you had the truth in mind at some point in the future this will be the past I’ve already burned my diary my last statement shall be ash life my friend is fleeting we shall leave no trace behind us and our troubles will have washed away diluted in the oceans of time
7 April 2024
ascension
long about midnight a certain time ago someone spiked my tea before they rifled through my drawers may long standing repercussions settle on their bones he who laughs last… well, let’s just wait and see… I’m too cool to care coz my head is full of stars I’m only a poor boy with a bloody hammer I get high I get low the symptoms are axiomatic they’re no problem at all it would take more than a lethal dose to silence this fat mouth
brother, you gave me a mountain but I climbed it what’s that the image of? men heaving over mountains? or drowning in their shadows? a
man needs a mountain like a bullet
needs a gun a mountain’s a load for
one back but I’m drawn to the weight
of it like a moth on a fatal trajectory simply coz it’s there coz it’s in my path I’m just a poor boy with a bloody hammer I
survived the assassin’s cup and
occasional subsequent avalanches but
I’ve been to the top of the mountain
and I have seen the world
2 April 2024
bourgeois heroes
the swill of propaganda and the opiate of aspiration are pumped out 24/7 in the age of sexualisation fetishized commodities and prostituted love
the name of the game is power and all power stems from oppression our courageous
captains of industry spread the
ideology of cancer in a torrent of greed and lust
way up on mount olympus cadres of billionaire demigods are forging tickets to heaven from second-hand clichés and
promissory notes we’re left counting
pennies while they organise a society
where hideous pagan idols are feasting on our blood
1 April 2024
bluebottles
I was my natural self being in a particular groove when I was accosted by bluebottles they was low types full of guile and craft and tried to locate my stash by rifling my pockets they were due a disappointment coz I’d already imbibed and was well off my rocker yeah herb means life, or so jah say everybody’s doing it nowadays I was indignant and stood on my rights they got suss and fled through the night but the war on drugs is never over we’re bound to meet again on another sorry day
31 March 2024
easter sunday
let’s drink to resurrection and poor boys coming home to triumph over life and death the second time around you’ll believe what you want to there ain’t no sin in that but words are what men live by and words were meant to count some things linger on in the universal mind they’re neither fact nor fiction but something in-between jesus was a poet and he’s alright by me
30 March 2024
outside women
another outside woman is borrowing my clothes she’s got my name and number that’s about all she knows she doesn’t bother to feed me and I don’t really care coz we’re only buying time while her man’s not there it’s become the well-worn ritual we don’t talk that much we keep it nice and simple and communicate by touch it’s a temporary arrangement we can always walk away but she likes to keep me stashed nearby for a rainy day
29 March 2024
problems
I’m no slave to silence I have the words but I don’t use them all you said I had a great face the kind that’s been lived in well it is lived in that is died in too but that’s another story you said I was gifted but that’s just a lie I’m experienced that’s what you bought no social experiment you bought a man a man of flesh and blood I fought the law but I never did no time they caged me in a hospital they said I’d lost my mind but minds are ten a penny they’re not so hard to find I’ve had problems we’ve all had problems but I used my imagination to finally cut loose what on earth did you do when hard times came around?
good friday
was that love? was it ever love? transmitted from a distance cloaked in the mysterious it was a far greater thing… and all that signifies to sacrifice yourself and the love the act implies I said I’d give my life for you but that was not enough I had to forsake my family and purchase your affections with promissory notes…
28 March 2024
pyrite
don’t mind me I’m just a basic guy with extravagant needs but a man’s got to live as he sees fit there’s no secret ambition burning holes in my pockets I’ve got natural medicine to spell me some cheer they say it’s a weakness but I don’t really care some diversions are sacred like words from the bible so don’t shoot me down until you hear what the deal is your complete satisfaction could be moments away