• on the beach

    down to the seasideice lollies, buckets and spades?nowt but a dumb flag ~ CLP 26/06/2022

  • on time

    oh, your majestyit’s been a while since you passedI was in a Wimpey ~ n.b. Colmore Row, Birmingham, 1980/81 if I’m not mistaken, finishing a Quarter Pounder with cheese, waiting for the cavalcade to go by. You waved, I didn’t. Rude of me perhaps, but I was eating. CLP 11/06/2022

  • Collateral Damage

    what would we do if he dropped bombs here ? as we saw it fall we’d know it’s all over for us ! would we make up where we could offer necessary apologies long overdue balance our consciences play music say one final I love you ? ~ n.b. NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Twenty-eight prompt; Concrete

  • on luck (on Ukraine xxii)

    cold rain and Covidare we heating or eating?anything else? ~ n.b. Escape your oppressors, come to the UK. You’ll be welcomed with warm hearts once you have passed HM Border Force with your visa. CLP 30/03/2022

  • on time / on Ukraine xxi

    cash our currencywhile you pay in cold bloodtoo little too late? ~ n.b. We do what we can, but this is the only way we know how. Is it enough? CLP 27/03/2022

  • on Ukraine xviii

    Norwich station Saturday nighta Russian skinhead looking for a fightwearing blue, white, red of his nation’s flag,carrying two beer bottles in clenched handspolished boots and military trousers tucked in the topsproud to be Russian, looking for a fightthis is Norwich station, Saturday night ~ n.b. The human race never fails to disappoint. CLP 12/03/2022

  • on light

    Waterloo sunsetbounces off bus sat on redcity plays the blues ~ n.b. Something changed today. The truth is out; money might buy influence, or purchase trophies, but there is still right and wrong. Somebody finally turned the floodlights on Stamford Bridge. ~ CLP 10/03/2022

  • on borders

    ejected by North Searagged rubber dingy beachedno sign of the crew ~ n.b. Who braved the waves on this through Storm Dudley, Storm Eunice, or Storm Franklin? Did they make dry land? CLP 27/02/2022

  • on Ukraine ix

    It’s “a matter ofUkrainian self-defence”is all we offer ~ n.b. Expect little more than more hot air from a UK government led by a liar and a spiv, whose political party accepts money laundered through Londongrad. I am reminded of an old joke adapted: Q: How do I get out of this?A: Well, I wouldn’t

  • on memory

    six years on and morelies and denials pour outnational self-harm ~ The people of Britain have been robbed of EU citizenship. Plague Island is swimming in dirty money, weakened by fraud, led by mercenaries. CLP 31/01/2022