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Derailment
Runaway train romance,rips me from reality,stars saunter down to the soft earth,shadowed by the smiling sun and mischievous moon.I don’t care if we go off the rails.We had a good run.
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I Will Probably Snap
I will not snap,but I will sail close with manic, meterosexual abandonment.I will smile for hours,like a man who has had a firm but enlightening conversation with his growing hair,confident and closed to critique,joyful and just the right side of smiling,not sinister, but safe, and sailing.
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Listening To The Wireless In The Shower
I need a cigarette,my weight in whisky and the love of a good woman,but I’m trapped in the cyclones of time.I shower in soapy water,solitude and the sad, sad tears of my spirits,lovingly watching the autumn leaves from the open window,ahead of their time like so many other things that I adore.I think, perhaps,I am…
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Found At Sea
My fluttering heart is tight within your grasp,gaining ground in our sweet game of flats,calling out across aching waves to my Captain,captured in your complex, chronic kiss. I line you with my lipstick,circling you, like salt,sealing you in my spell. Mine. Mine. Mine, alone. These are my wishes.These are my terms.
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Lessons
It was a Sunday night, and the pre work dread was beginning to sink deep into Nicki’s stomach. They sighed, flicking the switch on the kettle as they pulled a tub of hot chocolate from the cupboard. The weekend had sped past them, and now, as the clock crept closer to midnight, Monday was watching…