hug a boy –
one you have just found
gain planning consent
and redesign your lost and found
Almost Forty – Written September 2014 (Aged 39)
almost fifteen
and the wallpaper is coming down
i need to come clean
but i was a child
and i had never painted ceilings
Destination – Written Saturday 6th September 2014 (Aged 39)
i try too hard
and then when i do not need to
i somehow,
hang myself on the day
as i consider liars and cheats
Close My Eyes – Written Saturday 6th August 2014 (Aged 39)
but the damage
hangs in my galleries
pictures scrawled
of bitter sweet families
Push Back Harder – Written Saturday 6th September 2014 (Aged 39)
as a child
your horrid parents
took a long hard drag
and packed your childhood
into 1980’s carrier bags
Self – Written April 2009 (Aged 34)
Self it is – self, self, self torn up inside wishing to be somebody else lazy, lazy, lazy with an…
Hurts – Written April 2009 (Aged 34)
Hurts hurts to leave you i gave you all the chances you had all of me all my best glances…
Pots of Gold – Written April 2009 (Aged 34)
you break my heart
but this –
is the right thing to do
Fuse – Written April 2009 (Aged 34)
Fuse does getting older shorten the fuse in the words people say anything i can use too bad, too straight…
You Are Raindrops – Written April 2009 (Aged 34)
you have had –
a very committed relationship
with tragedy
you both appear entwined
