Monday, 30 June 2025

Before the kick off

And me here thinking you'd taste like
peaches and apricot
grapefruit at a stretch at least
plum please forgive
my manifest delusions

And freakboy like Imperial
Leather and beef jerky
so manly yes the manliest
silver coins in a cowboy's pocket
sweat like raven's tears before 

We grow, with much reluctance
into the realm
of some acceptance

Sunday, 29 June 2025

MK morning / peptides

Walking back through Campbell Park
Hailu Mergia in my head
up to the Light Pyramid
5km in my legs // still moving
silver La Tour always in view

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

NYT Games Spelling Bee

Trying to tease out the pangram
from BLNFIOE
before I can begin my day

what could it be?

bellefino - an Italian sherry

lifebone - don't we all need a lifebone

fonebill - alternate spelling

bonefill - an archaelogical process

bonnelife - ancient Scots greeting

boonfile - archaic term for a will

nibbleoff - polite cake eating contest

lionbeef - forbidden meat

beefloin - see above

folbine - I got nothing

come on man
I don't have all day!
(are you sure about that)

grease the brain
cells with
coffee

and then it came to me
~~~~~~~~~
(no spoilers)

and some people say
I have too much
time
on my hands

Sunday, 22 June 2025

Orange Car Pile-Up and Forest Cricket

I started to add midweek runs
to my fitness routine la la la regime
but that week a series of unfortunates which
my legal rep has urged me not to reveal in this or any forum
led to not led to, cause not cause
a four-car pile-up and oddly all of them
were orange not yellow or gold which
you must agree is uncanny or merely symbolic 

It was an exhausting incident, and
I will ever jog along jong jong
jog along jong jong
a glong glong gong
down down down along along long

Into the
middle
of the
road again

Head held high full of unearned confidence
I went back to work, grids and cells
won't fill themselves

I was assigned to the cricket desk
the new series was played in dense and uneven woods
posing a novel challenge for batter, bowler,
umpire and spectator alike
tree hazards, low light, a muddy wocket
yes we renamed it a wocket I didn't just mistype

In retrospect someone must have known
this was a disastrous experiment, and on
returning to the office from the forest
I found the whole operation had been
wound up and closed down
at some point during the second innings
due to lack of funds and interest

My boss shrugged, said they're all robots out there
or do I mean automatons
anyway it means we're no better
and you won't get paid for this

Thursday, 19 June 2025

Straight up theft at 01.20

anime is the enemy
weeping in barbecue sauce
happy is way to live ooooooohhhhh
never replay excuse me *reply* with less
a close-up of a mosquito (no thanks)
a scattering of crinoid stems (somehow yes)
your podcast is flying by
eliminate the hey @grok peoples
why don't you ask the trees if they agree
hold your drink, just hold it there
it's Walton not Walter ffs even now
confusing numbness with peace
how do we ever retire to bed now
New Yorker cartoons are the best (worst)
'proper pooping posture' just kill yrself
elephant toothpaste experiment never gets old
make note of pink koshu grapes
///unbelievable discounts///
the steak was unrinsed
unprepared for graphical abstract
sell the forests now #pristine
next thing you're mimicking bird calls
dogs did not evolve for stairs
so much drama on the ocean floor some say bed
2050 soon closer than 2000, yeah
I give you the mausoleum of all hope
trajectory of missile
try to filter out regime filth not pron
& can someone pls turn me OFF

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

The apocalypse is overrated

But one vision I could endorse
is the scene early in 28 Days Later
when Jim leaves the hospital and
walks across Westminster Bridge into 
a deserted London at sunrise
as Godspeed You Black Emperor play

Finally I'd be the rightful
Imperator of London
raid supermarkets, steal cars
(it's not really stealing any more)
until, as the rest of the film
inevitably points out

You'd have to deal with
 the dead
 the undead
 the rats and
 the loneliness

Although I've been preparing
for that
my whole life

F♯ A♯ ∞




Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Utopian Sex Palace by Purity Quell

I'm not speaking to you. I'm speaking at you
Why don't you use in-vivo magnetic resonance
Auto salvage, and the birds she didn't write
I joyrode a tank across a field in Norfolk

    Foaming Wash Bar
    Make it better

No pigeonholes please. You define me
Why don't you employ morphometry or
Find out why 'Daddy was Missing'
Why he sat along in the hole, in golden robe

    Foaming Wash Bar
    Make it behave

His corpus ‎callosum all out of whack
There is a fish tank for their amusement and
Please park car in appropriate space
Your ritts be show. Your ritts be show

    Foaming Wash Bar
    Make it new

Is the polar vortex reversing, yes
The polar vortex is reversing
You have multiple doctorate degrees
But you still say somefink. A*I*T*A*

    Foaming Wash Bar
    Make it clear

Ring the Nurse With Wound list up the flagpole
Don't take the piss or you'll get a right panda
And don't even start with the
League of neurotoxic flavours 

    Foaming Wash Bar
    Make it clean