Confessional

Of course my so-called real name is not
Lee Holloway Towers
I changed it by dead pool
around the turn of the century

After turning up at my new job
trying to fit in, making the small talk
when I'm asked point blank by
the owlish girl
'Do you write poetry?'

What an outrageous question

Of course I denied it as I would surely
have denied the Lord. What kind of a pervert
would admit to being one of those people?

Perhaps someone lacking in shame and pure of heart

Of course she'd googled the new recruit
and found some incriminating results
submissions from the earliest days of the internet

'There must be more than one of me'

A lesson was learned
a new name was gained
a fresh beast was born

Waste transfer notes

significant levels of contamination
it's the taxpayer who foots
no interest in protecting
waste producers, waste brokers
80,000 documents

no intention of complying
after a painstaking trawl
a series of boreholes
falsifying documents
the public purse
waste producers, waste brokers
and 80,000 documents

recover all of his assets
noncompliance with a permit
delve into the paperwork
it was the right result
from Lowestoft to Leeds to Liverpool
it had all the ingredients
waste producers, waste brokers
80,000 documents

provided us with waste transfer notes
convicted the site owner
proximity to the water supply
*the crown court*
to avoid paying landfill tax
thousands of inert sites but
waste producers, waste brokers
and 80,000 documents

in polluting the environment
mounted a thin defence
samples taken by consultant
illegal activity
incriminating evidence
one of the more feeble excuses
hazardous materials
the conditions of the permit
unsuitable, unlined
waste producers, waste brokers
80,000 documents

the cost of building a new reservoir
the outright lying
blinded by greed
*reconstruction*
toxic chemicals
he was turning a tidy profit
eventually, he pleads guilty
+this site is currently closed+

waste producers, waste brokers
80,000 documents
and it's unusual to see
custodial sentences
for environmental offences

Car and Girl

I remember when       we were driving
driving in your car      yes we were driving
                                driving in your car
       like this moment now here   
       now    there        could never end

In a blue Ford Mustang 5.0 GT
four speed automatic, Virginia plates
cruise control and everything

We were driving and singing
laughing and riding
just like young lovers
just like real people do

This was before your drinks were spiked
and my face got rearranged

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Bad Weather for Ducks

All the lame ducks were swimming in the waters of your mucky wake

So you became the magnetic collector of hamstrung mallardians

Claimed you never meant to hook them off the dusty shelf

Then why did you travel to the lonely fairground

You pleaded you didn't mean to lead them down dead end paths

But did you not hover around their nesting grounds

Did you not breed a feeble trail of crumbs

To keep them waddling deeper down the narrows

Please perverted piper don't deny how you trapped them

In the oily waters of your filthy slipstream

No time to wipe them clean or listen to their wounds

Or even scoff at their lame and injured quackeries

Kid yourself you were only waiting

for the golden goose

and the magic egg

and the holy barnyard

Silent Pop

After being fully cured of brain weevils
his brave and tortured feet trod meaningfully if not
magnificently towards the shopping mall
ready at last for the arcade of abundance

When a dancing sphere not quite
lighter than air but certainly greener and fatter
bounced along the road beside him
he recognised a portent as well as the next ape

Should he adopt it, or release it
back into the nearest ocean?

It swerved into the road and survived strikes
from not one but two vehicles before
silently popping beneath a third

It was certainly like something but what

Platinum Jubilee David

Holding his cigarette between his transition to
working again in book was asked by
every like champagne in celebration of the fabric
of the surveyor unafraid and generous
and beyond them him to
understand optics master for joy 

Some years later to get in contact with David the long
email chain to invite him to make a stained mythical
mythical awestruck utterly working in book
mythical 1980s Hollywood Thanksgiving
insatiably voraciously curiously
assured master for joy 

There have been few eyes
they are brown
because days going
resolved by thinking Deans in the end
brother Ptolemy appointed as David came to see
a guided three piece suit
and after that we became friends
Rufus in his school play of the hawthorn
bushes exploding my glass window
and in Yorkshire the hedgerows 

To film David smoking his young self
took a bit of convincing but in the end
a glass window like champagne in celebration
in surveyor of the fabric of
platinum David invited to make a stained Yorkshire
he resolved by thinking of
the long email chain the guided hedgerows
the blue greater pleasures of his poorly space

Some years later Ptolemy appointed
his native contact with David in Cabaret
of the hawthorn bushes exploding if he knew
the then Dean Abbey in honour of paint yourself
was asked by Rufus in his school play
was asked by scientists in their technologies 

Our family maxim "Inspiration she does just had
his 11th birthday"

Rufus in his three piece school play
Yorkshire a stained bore and
Westminster Abbey asked by the hawthorn bushes
to fetch a canvas dressed parents
exploding he resolved by thinking
brother Ptolemy newly guided like
our son Rufus like champagne in celebration
took a bit of convincing to invite him like
our son Rufus like champagne curiosity

To make fabric of the email chain
some years later in honour of the hedgerows
if he knew how to get the Abbey or how
to get in contact with the Queen's Platinum David

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/12/david-hockney-remembered-artists-rachel-whiteread-jeremy-deller

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