He's writing like YouTube comments now

Sitting at the breakfast nook
perched atop uncomfortable leather stools
eating our porridge slash cereal
the windowsill radio tuned to Capital Radio 95.8FM
for me, it was the pre-rock'n'roll era as in,
I wasn't obsessed yet mid 70s & all I had / heard
was low level breakfast radio

And Thursday TOTP on the upstairs portable TV
as it wasn't encouraged on the downstairs big TV
(lack of) volume was certainly an issue plus
no one at school ever talked about music
maybe once a year there was a
did-you-see buzz memorably
Sparks not Bowie 

Not having an older brother + sister
was also an issue, but
one radio standout was War's Low Rider
every time that came on there was a
glimpse of a different world
if only you could turn it up

Aide-mémoire

Last Sunday morning when
you coughed up a lung
sniffed up a sardine
pooped out a parrot and

Literally fell to the floor
flailing even gibbering
wondering if it was late variant covid

Just for reference
and full disclosure
you'd drunk four cans of Special Brew
the night before
case closed

Conflation

You got up on the horse
now you can get off off the horse
or fall in slow motion off the horse
don't matter much to me, ain't my horse

My indifference causes
an earthquake on Mars
(marsquake)

My mother (briefly) had a 'bosom pal'
Janice was a hairdresser who
lived in a tower block, not like us

She was always on about Crystal Palace
and together they laughed so much thick
as thieves yukking it up

Janice cut my hair and left me to
watch cartoons with orange juice

You climbed up up up upon that horse
now you can come off off off of that horse

Waillee Wednesday, February

Ended up in Southall
listening to Dorothy Carter in the rain
the relentless rain did I mention the rain took a bus
took a wrong turn saw the water tower
the town hall. An ex-colleague lived here
I imagined a dialogue, not unusual but

Fruitless, not even comforting

Remember, at some point, mention
delicious aromas and the vibrancy

Traditional folk, medieval revival,
psychedelic experimentation

In the rain prior, I went to Hayes & Harlington
took three or four wrong turnings there too
this is what we do now
ransack the outskirts on a wet Weds

For free, in yr spare
soakd unto drooned rat and this was the last
time I wore my long-life Berghaus before it
perished, mercifully
in an alien machine

one dry potato

now we are laying some say lying here
moribund and fizzing
now we are itching also scratching
the difference which of the foot slash feet
entering the bunkarts of albania
stop it now ssh it all now
playing cricket in the afterlife

now we are having to rise at 0600 military
with alarum music set for 0607 good reasons
restith cometh you awake afresh its 1212
now you are wearing fat slippers
now you are depositing distracting pee some say piss

now you are noticing the reassuring whoosh of the traffic
but whabout the less assuring whoosh
whine of your own earholes and whither
ist my tinnitus appointment
the clack and squawk of late homecomers, residual
longing for the increasingly rare lonesome train whistle

now take a deep side turn bet if tony and georgia
met you all have a laugh like pub quiz bike ride
sit and moisturize the feet awhile
radio on radio off

entering the caves in devon chislehurst also
the chilly step down into bonespace

aerial geometry field
school rulebook cloud
within cells interlinked

now are we awake now are we drifting no
we cannot be drifting if

Don't @ me

the boy on the bike yells 'Specsavers!'
at me after I cross the road
in front of him (executing my
crossing with great efficiently
in order not to cause him to slow down)

the women in the booth raps
her nails on the glass three times
and beckons me to show my passport
as I started to walk past her window
as she was engrossed in her phone

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