11 October 2018
Daisies
Hangover
we’re running low on drinks
this party’s hit the doldrums
and as the morning sinks
we godless frozen forms
pitch headlong into ashtrays
and empty bottles counted
then recycled in the telling
like the evidence that’s mounted
in the stories you’ve been selling
so paint me black in tales of woe
and fabricate the reason
to justify the fatal blow
and your final act of treason
.
3 October 2018
Insatiable
I shed a score
every time
I went
to the well
soon I was skint
and the well was dry
those are the dues
owed the
golden monkey
when your appetites
outstrip your means
and gluttony
obscures your reason
.
2 October 2018
The Final Link
I seen you in your big boots
threshing out your grapes of wrath
you only harvested bitter fruit
from your black vineyards
but you could never touch me
or the dope that I had stashed
even then I knew too much
to take your shit to heart
.
they say the sins of the father
are meted out to his sons
I guess you merely did
what own father had done
but that shit stops right here
I won’t let it go on
if I’m a link in that bloody chain
I’ll be the final one
22 September 2018
Sleepless
nowhere to rest my head
no cradle for my dreams
I pace the lonely hours
just bursting at the seams
I measure dusk ‘til dawn
and see them back again
I’ve little need for sleep
I have a faulty brain
in the cold grey dawn
I feel as thin as rain
it’s mornings such as these
could drive a soul insane
.