Archive for the 'Poems' Category

Every car is the Car of the Year;
they try to sneak this by you, hoping
the enthusiasm of their punctuation
obscures the memory. I try to tell them
this is hopeless – I may not have been raised with
Jesus, or strong heterosexual role models,
but we knew our mutual exclusivity
cold, what you weren’t because
someone else was, and the […]

More vacant dialogues with absent friends
took place this year than the last decade’s sum;
now you can hardly think amidst the hum
of conversations half the pair attends:
each roving girl with one good ear to lend
conspires with the air, reacts to winds,
first contradicts the silence, then rescinds
her words in loops that tirelessly extend.
This number will have grown […]

I come before you to refute the
argument that the 21st Century has killed good,
large things. I too remember the size of
promise, horizon’s kinetic scent wafting
through, those times we really thought
we had our pants on right;
I remember Huey Lewis.
I remember mapped, tangible genres of
music, with Princes and Queens,
massive, fertile icons, guaranteed
seats. Boy George
Michael. And before […]

I’d like to thank entropy,
the breaking down of all systems over
time, without whose support
this film could not have been made.
I’d never have starred as midlife
crisis, or had the chance to work with
unfaithful spouse – which was truly
a singular treat.
I’d not have learnt so much from ethnic
love interest, whom I totally
respect on a professional level and […]