Do You

Part Five

A blast

A switchblade of fire opened its jaw
Cockroach teeth gnawing away
Flowers incongruous amongst the offal
Decaying flesh and churned bones
I trembled as the blade snarled out
Ducking I held a beam aloft
It erupted in flame as the blade struck
Oh good I said
Standing to attention
This should be a blast
And it was


Robbers

Many's the day I've walked along
Minding my own business
When suddenly robbers emerged
Head to toe in black
Armed to the teeth, eyebrows and beyone
You name it
Eyeballs popping through head muffled slits
Running towards the lolloping individual
Who happened to be me
I saluted the lads
Make it for me boys
Carrying onto the postie to buy some comics


My Joyous Love

My darling wife
Who means the world to me
Has been given the all clear
I am so happy
My joyous love is well
To spend eternity with me


Butterballs would not Melt

Butterballs wouldn't
Wouldn't what?
Melt in his mouth
Who's
What do you mean who's?
Who's mouth they would not melt in
His of course
From the chippy
Down the road
You know
Course you do
Ooh whats his name?
Its on the tip of my tongue
Albert, Adrian, Alfred
Its gone
But whoever he is
Butterballs wouldn't melt


Judge Dredd

He manhandled the perp
Threw him in the catch wagon
Holstered his lawgiver
Straddled his lawmaster
His very name struck fear in MC-1
The jutting chin
The raspy voice
The never revealed face
Clad in black
The toughest of the tough
Judge to out judge the rest
Who am I talking about
JD
Judge Dredd
That's who.


The Truth

A wreck on the freeway
No one injured
I look with no mind
Aware of all
I am the world
The world is me
I've cleared all the crap
The Truth remains
I am the truth
So are you


Attentive

Feeling down
Down
Down
Throat feels off
Tastes like shit
Body itching all over
Ride with it
Don't think
Be attentive
No answers
No questions
No condemnation
Aware
No choice
Attentive


Constructed

Constructed
The noose getting tighter
Eyes feeling the strain
Choking pghelm issuing forth from my open mouth
No sound
Smiling eyes
Took off my jumper
Laughed


Pink Blossoms

I observed the tree outside my windows
Leafless branches stark in the winter light
Small pink blossoms hang gracefully


Have Faith

Relax my friend
Don't worry
Have faith


Slab of beer

A shotgun pellet bruised my left knee
Arcing arrows penetrated my chest
Green pus oozed slowly dripping
From the gaping open infected wound
I felt like a game of footie
Rang up a few friends
Grabbed a slab of beer.


Gazing

I gaze out my window
Watch the world float past
Mothers pushing prams
Holding toddlers arms
Postman delivering news
Only bills
Leaflet distributors
Old ladies mainly
Pushing in advertising literature
Kids bounce balls
Strut across on bikes
No lovers stroll here
Quiet lane
Birds flit from branch to branch
Cats scamper and fight
Our rabbit has escaped again
Wrecking havoc on the plants
Italian old guy visits his older dad
Ciao
I see my wife return
With my angel Sarah
The lights and loves of my life
I am watchful
Aware
Attentive
No me, no past
Simply what is
What is the Truth
Sat-chit-anada
Joy
Love.


A day of Jam

A coupla rounds of toast and tea please
That'll do for me
Plenty of butter
Dripping from the gutter

Eating the cat
Making sure I don't get fat
Alive in my belly
Eating the excess jelly

I sniffed the pollution outdoors
Poured on the jam to clean the floors
Oops sorry vicar
Have a sniff of this knicker

Love the dress Bob
Looks sexy and hides your knob
How long its grown
Plenty of meat on that bone

I saw yonder flaming moon
Pulled too hard and came too soon
Tidied up with a shirt
Had a roll in some slimy dirt


Game of Chess

I noticed the bird singing
Playing a love song on the viola
My heart leaped a beat
No thought
Absorbing the ecstatic rendition
Of Wagner and Richard
Lovely taste of salmon
Caught it with my own covered hands
Law of the land
An ant happened on board the train
I smiled
It chirruped
We sat staring at each other
Comfy in our mutual knowledge
Action is now
With no thought or choice
Both God
Both the world
Grasshoppers by the dozen
Jumped through an open skylight
Landed, dusted themselves off
Adjusted his bow tie
Sat down with self important airs
We brought out the chess set
Began playing.


Headache on the Train

Bum, bum, bum
Hammers descending on my head
I felt rough
Not through the drink
But still a nagging headache
Shut up
Keep that bleedin noise down
I fell and grasped for air
I needed attention
Wanted looking after
Please help me I feel sick
Vomit issued from my mouth
Spurting over the folks nearby
Help me
I beg you
Toy trains underfoot, spinning and tripping me
I danced like a madman
Making ugly faces at one and all
Chocolate melted on my bald pate
I needed that
My darling
Watch your dress
Take it off


The postman and swing

I have scoffed a lot of chick satay with peanut sauce
Lovely but as usual I have filled my belly
Never know when to stop. Continue shoveling it
In till I feel ill. What am I
Mad or something
Topped up with a glass or two of white wine, unchilled
How about 4 or 5 or six, you
Drunken bum. How about it, you old souse
Keep your big proboscus out of my affairs
My pleasure
Swivel baby and enjoy the ride of your life
Succumbing to more orderly pleasures I indulged
In a ride on the swing in the park across the road from my house
Up and down
Round and round
Higher and higher
Approaching the zenith
Can I do it
One last effort
Wow, up and over the bar
Try that kids if you can
They looked on with mouths to their knees
Still got it boys and girls
Try that if you dare
Mothers and fathers rushed out to usher their kids in before any
Could be mad enough to try.
Home James I sang to the postie and
True enough here I am now.


Soy Sauce on the floor

Black and gooey
Dripping from the overturned bottle
White cyclindrical triangular top
Culminating in a hole
Tip and pour over Chinese food
The tremor of my hand
Had hit it and knocked it sideways
Dark panel forming on the lacquered floor
Of tiles and burnished wood
It reeked of fish
Daughter adding to smell with a kaka bum
Full nappy of the brown variety
I licked up the sauce
Tasted good
Like brandy gone off after a thousand years
Knowing an egg of disreputable character
Looking like an eyeball in a patch of compost
Smelling abominable
But ay lad, a damn good chew
And it was too
I had two of them
One with marmalade
The other kippers
Nice cuppa tea
Brandy and cream


Human Species

The human species
Mates after gestation
Only animal to do this so I heard
Outlines our need for bonding
Not mere procreation
But to establish a warm and loving relationship.


Silly old bugger

I knocked on the door of life
Can I come in
Love to
Feels kinda cold in there
Well it is Winter
What, everywhere in life
Northern life at least
Can I go into Southern life
Suppose so
Ta, let us in then
What's the password
Eh
Password
I don't know
Come now I know
Open the door you silly old bugger


Sexual Urges

Sexual urges fall upon me
I gaze at my dynamite wife
Unclothe her with my eyes
Lips wetten
Limbs relax
Cock rises
Looking anew at my wife all the time
Reliving the early excitement
Coupled with the bonding and warmth now shared
Adds up to a potent mix
A joining into one
Exploration of each body
Rubbing and massaging with oil
Covering with cream and licking off
On the kitchen table
Plates shattering
Legs juddering
Bodies quivering
The nights dishes smashing on the floor
Enjoy your wife
Mine is beautiful and sexy.


World Service Radio

Radio whining in the distance
Voices garbled and chundering
Spewing forth inance chatter
Discussing this and that
Feeling hands massage the knobs
Twiddling nad tuning
Still scratchy
Noise in the background
Two channels overlapping
Voices intermingled
One on top of the other
Making more sense now than before
Woof
A dog runs and jumps on the radio
Mounting it from behind
Eyeballs agog
Electricity coursing through its veins
Hair shooting off sparks
Plug the hairdryer in
Dog falls exhausted and happy
Radio drones on and on
Waiting for the sport
English soccer on the World Service
Tuning, tuning
Will I ever find it.


Pipex and the fly tex

Pipex and the fly tex
From Texas City
To the big Meg
They come
Guns ablaze
Lasers shooting
Riding two headed horses
Unstoppable
On the way to Destiny
Judge Dredd
Judge No 1
He is the law in MC-1
A clash of megasaurs
How will it happen?
Who will come out alive?
Stay still to be heard
Dredd sleeps easy
Unknowing his death roaring near
For now let him sleep
Pipex and the fly tex
Are on their way
Lifeforms in the Cursed Earth scatter
Those two slow
Get blown away
Who can stop them?
Who, indeed!!


Royalty

The lion roars and sparrows cry
Flying between the teeth
Sharp and jagged
Gnashing and gnawing the carcass
But the birds skip joyfully
Through the gleeful terrors
Having their chew
Winking at the kings of the Jungle
Showing less respect
Than we humans to our kings
Who has the right idea?


Churning Morass

I looked inside
The jumble of thoughts engulfed me
In the mire
I struggled and staggered
Following one thought after another
Simply churning the morass up more
Finally I knew that chasing for answers was using
Thought to understand thought
Awakening to this fact
I surrendered, no longer chased
Simply observed
As I did so
The waters calmed
No longer stirred up
Everything became clearer
I smiled
I am the world
The world is me
Though there is no me
Just what is.


In the Bath

Doo dee doo
C'mon Sarah, into the bath


Missing Wife

He put his daughter in the bath
Undressed and joined his wife in the shower
Carressing and kissing each other
Listening to their daugther playing
He felt happy
His wife kisssed him and stepped outside
Moving out of the bathroom
Humming under the water stream
A relaxing glow came over him
Leavign the shower he dried himself
Laughing and playing with his daugher
Leaving the bathroom he found his wife nowhere
Kettle on the hob
Cups loaded with tea bags
Must be in the garden he mused
Returning to the bathroom to get his daughter out of the bath
Laughing and joking
Rubbed on the 'der
Put on nappy and clothes
Wheeeeeeeeeeee
'Darling get the kettle'
He remembered she was in the garden
Ran to the kitchen
Prepared the tea
He grabbed his wifes tea and walked outside
Not in back garden
Not in front garden
But car in drive
Where the heck is she?
He finished his tea and played with his daughter
By nightfall she had not returned
No police had rung
Husband seems less than concerned
What is going on?


Nightmares in bed

Falling
Falling
Falling
I ran out of bed
Out onto the black landing
Grabbed the handrail and
Vaulted into nothingness
Falling
Falling
Falling
Past huge ticking clocks
Lower and lower
But before hitting bottom I jerk up in bed
Perspiring all over
Heart banging ten to the dozen
Another nightmare
I pulled up the covers tightly over my head
Imagining safety in the dark
He'll not notice me
Covers dripping wet
I must look
I must
I peep over the cover
No one there
I sigh with relief
Swisshhhhhh!!!


The Blue Lamp

A blue gloved hand had come circling around my throat
Now then what have we here
Done nowt copper
Let me go pig
That's no way to talk sonny
Slap, slap
Down on suspects bald pate
I need a word with you
Down this ere alley
C'mon Fred, let's give it to him
Blows rained down
Refreshing as an April Shower
I heard the sound of washing dishes
Okay mum, I'll dry
Blissful rembrances of things long past
Marcel Proust
Anita Ekberg
Sunday morning matinee
The Blue Lamp


Grafitti

Grafitti covered the virgin white
A violation of the pure
Crisscrossing with no aim
Simply there and have done with it
Life should be like Grafiti
Spontaneous
With a sense of fun


Lose Yourself

Lose yourself in the music
Flow into it
Become one with it
No thoughts
No verbalising
Only experienceing the here and now.


Transforming the World

Encompassing old natures heart
Feelings summed up in age old conquests
Man having power over man and beast
Abusing and exploiting all and sundry
No regards for the whole
Thinking they live in their own shoddy world
For a certain time then die
No responsibility for the consequences of their actions
Dog eat dog
Its a competitive world out there
What can I do?
Who are you?
You can ask yourself these questions
Dive within yourself to find the answers
On the way you'll see the futility of the mind and ego
They cannot search for themselves
Like a dog chasing its own tail
Faster the dog goes
Faster the tail
Undestanding this not in the mind but
Actually feeling it here and now
Somewhere inside with no thought involved
No imagine
NO verbalisation
Simply the actual experience here and now
Undestanding this
One comes to the question
Knowing this only stirs up the mind more each day
Instead you watch
Not making any effort
Not bringing in will or trying
Just awareness
Passive awareness
The mind quietens itself
You find the awareness is the answer
Nothing more
Nothing less
You continue living, working, acting and sleepign but with no doer
No thought
No memory creating images to compare with
No past and no future
Just here and now
Living in the present, action with no actor
Oneness with the whole
Oneness with all humanity
Oneness with the universe
The world is me and I am the world
Not verbally knowing, not as a philosophical theory
To be debated until Kingdom Come
Instead knowing through actual experience
No experiencer to have the experience
NO I
No ego
Just the experience of oneself
In the change one can truly LOVE
All the world
One sees everyone as oneself
One must help with no ego or I
The world is elected
Ripples spread and affect others culminating in others looking within
Following no God or gun but themselves
What can I do?
You can let the change occur in you to transform the relationship you have with the Cup rider
Don't think about it
Do it


You are Buddha

I look afresh each moment
Dying to the past each second
Everything is new and alive
So much energy
So much love
For all and everything
No fear
NO silence
Awareness is the key
Feeling one with All
I am the world
The world is me
Make no effort
There is no doer
Relax and be
Look within
You are free already
No need to escape anywhere
You are Buddha
Accept it in your bones
And rejoice.

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