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Friday 15 March 2024

Not Yet, But Let's Get Real

I don’t like pain. It hurts.

That’s why I don’t run marathons.

Hangovers an irritation.


I’m kind of fascinated;

Eager, somewhat, to see the credits roll.

Obviously, not any time soon

(or ever, but let’s get real.)


I thought at one time I’d do the same

as Aldous Huxley. Go out tripping

my tits off.

Ludicrousness wonder clarity.


But, no. I’ll cop it,

not cop out.


That said, if I’m

in paroxysms and incoherent -

turn the morphine the fuck up to full

and let me dream into distance,

into delusion, into comfort;

I do dissolve.


Squinting a fading

idea of sighing mind -

fade beyond feel -

a welcome home

from gigglers gone.



Wednesday 13 March 2024

Ocean

I reckoned life was a boat

on the endless universe’s ocean.

But perhaps life is the ocean

and the boat is understanding.



Things

 My mind told me to list

all the things

that I’d probably never do again.

All the Things

that I’ve been and done.


Then I told my mind

that to be here at all

to be able to think of

listing those things

was enough.


And that to be here

probably might mean

there were some

unexpected Things

yet to come.



Tuesday 2 January 2024

Why Tories are so shit at economics - in a nutshell

Right wing governments always want to cut back on public spending because when they actually do have to spend money they have no clue how to do it.

They have no idea what anything costs. 

No sense of value vs price. 

They are taken in by any smooth talking snake oil sellers - because the right wing power structure has no actual connection with reality as it pertains to anyone who isn’t themselves.

Because they don't care about how things actually work, they assume everyone is well off enough to get through.

They lack the vital understanding that people are forced to be amazingly and tragically inventive when they/we have no money: we make it through somehow despite the lack of cash. This is something most Tories have no experience of. It's like trying to explain colours to someone born blind.

Right wing governments don't like spending money cause THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO IT.

Friday 15 December 2023

Sessions

we pondered at great length

and discussed for quite a while

the fact that I was prone

to overthinking


uh 


it takes most of a session

to reach down deep enough

to start to untangle something

then the time is gone and

well

see you next week


I like to finish on an up note

if I can

an affirmation 

or acknowledgement

of something positive


trouble is

once I leave the chair

and leave the room

and leave the building

the world is there

I mean

carrying on of course

and yeah of course of course 


Nobody cares, I know that,

or better to say that

everybody cares but there is no time

because the earth spins, etc,

and work and whatnot

and so on and all that


gadzooks


did they ever find out

where Square One was?




Thursday 23 November 2023

A Slow Dive

Supposed a slip

but the ground fell away

your trajectory twisted

inelegant sprawl

red zone suspension

through the muddy squall

negligent absence

darker distractions


Cry wolf/help/blame

a learnt malevolence

staged rage. 


But no matter:

it is all wrapped pain.


There is no possible

control of what

should not be;

neither should we

suffer unduly for that

which is done to us

for there is a future

when we catch each other.