thanks for the coffee
and the stories too
in a world of actors
you hold your own
but I aint buying
I’m selling
I’m not a consumer
I’m purely product
this shit doesn’t just happen
I had to stitch each piece by hand
it took some time
and a little imagination
but just feel the quality of the material
my fiction has an unlikely provenance
a thousand hands sculpted its features
with brute force and ignorance
but the lies contained herein
were honestly acquired
every story needs a villain might as well be me coz I’m no fucking good but you’re stuck with me all I want from you is the killer
blow the coup de grace another
round one more drink should kill me off don’t worry, I won’t blame you I
have a conscience but it’s
slender no, I wouldn’t blame
you I’d blame myself I’m getting that heavy feeling again I’m all beat up totally punched out I’m not the man I thought I was that cunt thought he could fly but I’m paralysed from the neck up too many blows to the head too much poison in my cup I feel I’m halfway dead I do believe I’ve had enough
back to my
cubicle
curtained in
(do not disturb)
locked out
tubed up
and glued
down
the shadow
of a man
the simulacrum
of a corpse
I couldn’t
even scream
‘do you remember your name?’
‘do you know
where you are?’
‘do you
recognise me?’
don’t ask me
questions
I know
nothing
je suis un
zombie
the man
death left behind
I have
tasted her deadly promise
and it festers
in my mind
I fell from
the sky
and broke
all my bones
gravitational
force
just won’t
let me go
I fell from
the sky
but I proved
I can fly
most people
don’t
and they
never ask why
I fell from
the sky
believe me,
its true
I fell from
the sky
and so did
you
we fell from
the sky
to make this
our home
perhaps we
made a mistake
but at least
we’re not alone
I walked into a door
or the door walked into me I got
the usual cuts and bruises nothing
to scratch home about I’ve taken
some beatings and maybe I’m better
for them but I think I’ve learned my
lesson I think I got things
straight I’m not the man I was and that’s cause to celebrate
