Back in the Land of the living

 I'll let you know 

If I'm still in the land of the living

I'll see you tomorrow

I've never seen a ghost

In the land of the living

I'm glad to be back in the land of the living

Glad to be the black cat and not grave digging

Glad for your life hack that kept me breathing

Glad to be back in the land of the living

 Am I really? Yes! Well why?

I guess, it's that we were born to die

And all our days are numbered

But if I thumbed a lift with Thumbelina

For a little time her trampolina

If I humbled myself at her cortina

A courtly show for a fashionista

But nothing must glow as hot and cold as

The sun we are all under

We regret to inform you

That it will not rise tomorrow

Has never crossed anyone's mind

But for the fact that she breathes

I cannot detach myself so well

I've tried to pull her out of my heart

But the seed was planted, love kick started

And now it's banished by her rule

I fell apart for a bit, not sure if I'm

Together again, just yet

It's just a letter I write from the base of wall

Which I fell off last night

It was just my pride that's hurt, I'll bet

I'm back in the land of the living

And I'm trying to live without regret

The body snatchers

 Moving the mannequins

How do we carry them?

How can the body be spare?

Nobodies, everybody nowhere

Nothing to wear, no hair, no air

But graceful poises, not making noises

Standing so silently, spare

In use or out of it, in storage in the cupboard

Up in the attic

Wholly vacant like some static

The status quo of not moving at all

All hail human existence

Looking in the mirror at the dummy

The numb, dumb country bumpkin

The straw man, scarecrow

Worzel Gummidge figure

Come in to transfigure the interior design

Portfolio of foliage

Caught a cold you know like Coleridge

Walking out in the snow and storm like Keats

Cathy come home staring out the window

For Heathcliff

On the cold moors, the dale

That separates our homes

Mechanical walking of limbs

Legs and spare arms carried

As if by medical students to the 

Dissecting theatre

The autopsy of the dead relative begins

Where is she now?

Where is her soul, I can't find it

In her model's eyes

What do I want with her body?

With her imperialist grey skies

That have dominated me

From sunrise to moonrise

The set order of a regimen of lies

To get me down the endless catwalk of Winter

Into Spring

Looking in shop window reflections

To make sure I still exist

And have not been turned into

Yet another of her mannequins

On her exhibition list 

Forty something

 I'm over forty

I've got Dr Wolff at my door

Howling out he's got a cure

For my grey hair

I'm over forty

Now I'm a victim of time and fate

If I wasn't before

Well now there's no time to wait

You see my father was over forty

Before I turned naughty

You see he is behind a bullet proof glass plate

And history always comes to those too late

They tell me to inject caffeine in my pores

They tell me to believe in the male menopause

Well I believe, I have no cause, it goes

The same with Santa Clause

But I don't remember anyone getting on his case

About his over rosy cheeks, rotund belly

Or beardy white fakes

Why didn't he ever use Just for Men?

I suppose they wouldn't trust any dark haired strangers

Coming undercover down chimney ranges

Probably would have burnt him in the grate

Than suffer the indignity of a milk tray lover

Whose cover's blown as is his sperm count of late

But as I say I'm an over forty victim of fate

I'm an over forty son of

A man who's over eighty

Who's father never run the clock so late

But you can't say I've begun to hate

I still feel love could come by my gate

And we'd meet

At number 28b

 or not 28B

Two score and twenty four blackbirds

Baked in a pie,

on Pigeon street

And don't be late

Valentines

 It's when you love the wrong woman

Valentines is a traitor's heart

broken in two

Pieces of a queen's tart

Lay it on thick

Holding all the cards

She's ready to take their heads

Queen of broken hearts 

How I wish you were dead

I thought I loved a woman

But in fact I loved the wine

That's where thinking gets you

Thinking, such a waste of time

Back in Blighty

 Returning to old blighty

It feels oh so mighty

With it's castles and mists

And memories of being kissed

In the dams and caravans

In the Springs and the Wells

Where I sprung a Welsh leek

And held a Scottish thistle

And the teacher blew their whistle

And I ran to pick up the sandbag

And I can't run anymore

I've been run down

Until I'm sore

Primary school against the wall

Counting down

Turning around

Looking for the wolf

He's always at your back

Ready to attack

Coming back to good old blighty

What a mighty time we had

But who are the good

And who the bad

How can we forget?

How can we ever be sad

Except what else do you do here

Kiss the salty sand

Wait for one gland after another to pack up

Take up the slack and bear the share

The burden

It's no curtain to draw

No blanket of sack cloth to wear

Nothing is for certain

It's all fair

Love and war

You've been trained for

Ever since you grew up

In good old blighty

They train you to be mighty

Have a mighty heart

And to save the ones you love

For you to play your part

They told you how to live

How to run the game

How to take and how to give

And how to feel love and shame

And that's why blighty's in your bones

That's why you are always called home

But that's why you must escape the chrome

Nelson, the brass buckles

The shining buttons and waistcoats

The statues in museums

You saw history through

Like a peach black wind through hair

But love was a cummerbund

Of your joy and despair 

A good boat

 She's a good boat, she's a good boat

She's a very good boat to me

I like her lines

I like her curves

I'd walk her planks

But I'd always swerve

She's a good boat for me

I want to row right onto her ocean

It's like she's the vessel of my emotion

She carries me oft, hard or soft

Let the waves lash or the winds us blow off

Course, of course

I'll hold her straight, because I'm tied to her fate

She's a good boat, she's a good boat for me

I think we could float on the raging sea

She's a good boat, she's a good boat

She's a good boat for me

like bombshells falling on windmills

 Like butterflies' eyes

Falling eyelashes from the skies

Like bombshells falling on windmills

Like sky thrills filling

The windowsills

With sly shys, with nice guys

And dolls

And ice cold

souls

Like bombshells

falling on windmills

Gravity lane

 Gravity lane

Fallin down

Down on my luck again

In gravity lane

Wishing well quarter

I threw a dime in the water

Gravity pulled me in

I forgot how to swim

Won't you pull me out

I don't wanna drown

In the town 

where it rains 

forever and a day

Down gravity's lanes

Gotta walk on the moon

I'm gonna leap pretty soon

It's gonna be like a swoon

But it might take me til June

Cos here gravity's thick

Just like your lipstick

And I could float on your lips

Only your rip tide rips

And gravity pulled me down

Don't wanna wear this crown

It's heavy as horns

My little crown of thorns

So won't you tear it off

I love you hard not soft

But I can't wear your cloth

It drags me down to earth

And I need to be free

Cos I'm made of gravity

The phases of the moon

She I can't follow

Up and down like a yoyo

There's the new moon

Better let her know now

She, I can't follow

Silver thread to her bed

The Waning Crescent

She's the lady in red

She, I can't follow

I'm like a rainbow on the blink

The Third quarter 

She gives me a wink, I think

She, I can't follow

Her summer swallow

The Waning gibbous

Her wax wings I kiss

In her wax work museum

And the full moon

Was I a loon crying at noon?

Was it a neap tide

Was she a true bride?

Had she lied? We all lie

It's just the phases of the moon

It's only true at that time

The waxing gibbous 

She was melting like a candle

Too hot to handle

I never tried

The first quarter hid us

Occluded from the light

I saw a polaroid flash

I saw a polar bear dash

Across a wire and I didn't care

The Waning crescent slid

Down our throats

Like a lemon slice

Like a glass of wine it disappeared

Brought into focus

The sharp taste

Bitter as leaving your lover

And that's how I follow her

like the phases of the moon

After the glitter had fallen

 After the glitter had fallen

The ball had stopped spinning

The music turned off

The costumes were hanging on their hangers

The models had danced their socks off

After the manikins of bodkins

Had scaled the omphalos of night

After the slim ones, the trim ones

Had returned their souls to the light

After their bodies and shoddies 

Had shouldered their blames and their shames

After the love of their eyes had smouldered

In their ear's last refrain

After their mouths had powdered and chowdered 

and lisped their clasps undone

Then I knew that I was older, but not

colder for the sun had still shone

As the hall let down its decorations

Like a dog shaking off

As a christmas tree moults its needles

So spring crept into our midst

And winter was a burnt out candle

That really no one could handle or miss

Still I knew I was a vandal for the words

I'd used when instead I should've kissed

Yet Jesus still lay on the cross

And Mary Magdalene cried at his feet

And all the holy wine had cost

The word forgiveness spread on the street

Lily

 C I give you all my love, F Lily

G I give it to you for C free

C I'll give you all my love, GLily

F Yes, your heart is the C key

C I'll give you all my love F Lily

G Without you F I'm all at sea

G Oh so give me all your love

C Lily

C I've seen you like a dove G

F In my dreams, in my C dreams

C I've seen you like a dove

G Who I've set free

C And though you're G flying away

F I know you can'tG stay

C But still I'll give you all my love

G Lily

C I've seen the stars shine G above

F And held your hand, C I held your hand

C I've seen the diamonds sparkle

F like jewels in the sand

G And you are quite remarkable

C Oh yes, my little miracle

G I'll give you all my love

C Lily

Reused love

 I used to love you

Like an American loves Paris

I used to love the allure

The romance of you

But now I am embarrassed

Because all you ever were was a false messenger

You told me straight , but I never believed

You loved not him but her

I used to love you

Perhaps I still do

Just like I love a mountain

I've seen while passing through

But now I don't want to walk up its paths

I don't wish to explore the view

I used to love you

But now I'm sure 

it's not true

You did nothing wrong

That was my thing, I felt too strong

It wasn't you but me

I loved someone who was

already free

I thought I'd save you, but he

He has been a slave to you

And you to he

It's not that I see a golden cart come round the corner

With all the promises you made to him

Look like a pyramid, but taller

I think you lied to yourself

That's all and I came along for the order

You served me a dish of cold radishes

And expected nothing but a mourner

Well I can't be sad when your relationship has died

Because in my eyes it was all lies

no matter how hard you've tried

If you think I'll mop up the pieces

Or offer pity to those who have cried

I couldn't be the man in that city

So lonely that I could have died

You've used and abused his love

He's used up now and you've sucker punched

The blues out of him

While he's mourning his system

Of doubts, and about that he's listing

Just look at the way you have kissed him

The back of the neck

Like you're paying his cheque

You better bet that it was love you missed in him

I cannot love you, I'm disgusted by this betrayal

It's all just a home movie portrayal

Of love gone awry

But I'm an honest guy

I'll tell you, I can't stand to see this low railing

It's better to kill him than help him

If you love me, then there's no sense in the whelping

He's a beaten dog, let him lie with the hogs

I have no more pity than is self effacing

I love you still it seems, but it's physical

It's not what it means

I'd love to be close to you

To know and play host to you

But the most of you

Is the tail end of what's been

If you pass her by

 If you pass by my love

Tell her it's she

I've been thinking of

If you pass by, if you pass by my love

I won't pass by your love,

I won't pass by your love

It is all I can do

To try and stop thinking about you

Oh I won't pass by your love

She loves you not

 She loves you,

She doesn't love you

I'm just another piece of meat

In the street

She loves you like a cider apple

Bitter sweet

She loves, she doesn't love you

Bitter sweet

How can the moon rise

How can it turn into nothingness

Before your very eyes

She loves you

She loves you not

Just like the knot in the noose

She loves you, she loves you not

Just like the cards fallen

Played out of suit

I am just a game to her

One she cannot lose

Because I am no flame to her

Just another guy who hangs too loose

will the winds blow her away

Will she peel the end of love

I wish she would die and go away

I have no more love to use

The ventricle I left

 It was the ventricle I left

The same one I had no right

To be in

I was lost in your heart

Bereft

I turned down a one way street

Going against the flow

Your heart beat to my feet

But no further could I go

The city's hustle and bustle

Was too much for me

A busful of fat tourists

Looking for Cathedrals

And Vaults, Crypts and Mausoleums

Just nothing of the mournful museums

I left the chambers of commerce

I left the hallowed halls

I left all my promises

Behind the bars of prison walls

I kept visiting the prisoner

But my words felt hollow

I kept my vigil

In arteries, that led to capillaries

In chrysalis that hung like carcasses

In cold stores of the heart

But the butcher came out

And asked me what I wanted to eat

He said you can eat your heart out

But I ain't giving you no free meat

I had to pay on credit

I've got an account at the heart foundation

But I left the ventricle

Ashamed by my humiliation

I should have had the courage

To go in and ask for what I wanted

But I've always waited to be given

When others deem me daunted

Yet to be a rich man owning a city

To be a working man making a living

What can discourage you? Need no pity

To walk like a rooster, ready and willing

To bet it all, on a game of chance

No to given nothing except a dance

In the hall of the second glances

In the tower of freelances

Waiting to free the maiden of work

From the fell clutches of her enslaver

The dragon of capitalist return

The serpent of endeavour

The vacuum of a worthless worm

Who has ensnared her

My sink overfloweth with love

 Like the sea and the sand

Like the river and the land

We go together hand in hand

Hold me forever, I'll be your man

Give over, the shoulder, leg of lamb

It's a lamb to the slaughter

Water on the lam

Water daughter never taught her

How to stay close at hand

She always ran off from the land

I'm a king of fishes, I'm a fisher of kings

I'm making wishes I don't how to begin

Leave me in the lake

Let me drown, I think it's a mistake

That I wear this crown

Will you hold my life in your hands?

It's like water through the holes

Like using a sieve to catch sand

I've been borrowed before

I've cut and run

I've bet it all on a ball

Or a roulette hand

Show me how to fall

Let me tear it all down

I can't hear your call

Now I'm a wanted man

Right in the heart

 There was a time when waters flowed

When feet tapped to the drummer's art

When people danced and bands played

When rivers ran right in the heart

When church bells tolled

When markets stalled

When children schooled

Right in the heart

There was a time when snow drops sprang

When church bells rang

When prison's cart

And so when men believed

In nation's pride right in the heart

Right in the heart the spirit sprang

The choirs sang

The sun rays dart

When skies brighten as dark clouds depart

And future's form in solid gold

Moulded in, right in the heart

And on palisades, or in rocky glades

where cider's made, a cunning craft

Where times have changed

But some things remained

Because they stayed right in the heart

The Amulet, and church a couplet

A twin, like chalk and cheese

So far from each other's trouble

But in a bubble of cider's seas

And the bubble burst

All the thirst was scattered seeds

So gather up and sow again

In fertile earth

The rain will fall, new life it calls

will spring forth out of the dark

As things must turn right before the dawn

And kindle fire right in the heart

Provisional license to kill

I'm trying to find an enemy

It's the first time

But I've crossed too many lines

To ever go back

I'm learning to kill

But I don't want to turn black

She gave me a look

With her assassin's eyes

As I was chasing her across

The rooftop of the skies

Now I'm falling back down to earth

She shot me with a bullet from birth

Gave me a birthmark that glows in the dark

And I'm dying in her arms of mirth

They gave me a provisional license to kill

I'm a beginner in this love game

I never knew where to shoot her

And I need to practice my aim

I think I'm caught in her cross hairs

Because I can't remember my name

And when she interrogates me

I'm at a loss there

I say I'm only an agent for hire

I'm only a soldier of fortune

Seeking my fortune and fame

I dropped the document with the names of

All those other double crossing agents

She found it she took my statements

Is it true lies you can tell your torturers?

Is there anywhere left you can hide?

You can't stay dead your whole life

You've got to learn to hunt with a knife

I got a provisional license to kill

But I kept crashing and burning

There was nothing left in the thrill

The only thing I can do is keep learning

Chim cheroo sperm whale

 Sperm whale, sperm whale

Your frothy white foam

Stuck in the foam

White frothy foam

All there of, when they find they've got off

With their brothers and sisters

There's so many replicas of thee

I'll have to go back the sperm whale sea

Sperm whale, sperm whale

Where do you roam

Spreading your sperm all over the sea

You've made me a

Hoping to spread as far as can be

If the world's a lesbian

What would we be

A lesbian leviathan so deep in the sea

Only

to beat the beat at the sperm whale bank

Oh sperm whale, sperm whale where do you wank?

I've got you to thank you

The scan came back and it was all black and blue

Did you do it with a blue whale?

Oh well who knew

You've given your sperm out

And cast your net wide

Could it be your own daughter

Is even your bride?

I wish you would keep it

Inside your pants

But Sperm whale, sperm whale

Have you never heard of chants

I shall not ejaculate into the ocean

There are plenty more fish in the sea

 

Sperm whale, sperm whale oh where can you be

Searching the Aegean

The island of Lesbos

Hoping for yes woman to say yes boss

Putting these children inside of me

Did you do it on purpose with a porpoise

I'd like to know why you smile at me

And be my husband 

With incestuous children

Sperm whale where did you go

I heard a little secret all about you

That you've fathered ten thousand cetaceans

In a dozen different blue oceans

And now I don't know who's a cousin

of me

Just because you're a lesbian leviathan

It doesn't give you the right

to turkey baste my father and bring me to life

Sperm donor sperm donor where are you are roaming

beware of the whale who's always a homing

Around the isle of Lesbos

You had your way with a dolphin

And a right whale the wrong way round

The frothy sperm of the Dauphin

Who where's the frothy white crown

Jerking off a sperm whale

There's already too many

May as well have a sperm sale

Of the cetacean century

Sperm whale, sperm whale

did you take off your clothes

And do it with a dolphin

Who had a bottlenose?

Did you try with a hammer head

Or wasn't she your type

Oh tell me is there anywhere

Your willy hasn't wiped?

I heard even you'd danced in the dark

With a tiger, a great white, even a nursing shark

So many babies in so many seas

And I'm even one of them

Oh whoopey for me 

Sperm whale, sperm whale

Your genetics are skewed

And now they're spread far and wide

Because of how much you've screwed

Killer sperm

Humpback sperm

Your sperm to the left of me

 and your sperm to the right

They'll be nothing left of me

But many more mouths that bite

There's a gps signal lost

As the sperm whale cruises down the coast

Looking for his next victim

For him to inject himself in

The Sperm whale loves to boast

Trains in Spain

 The trains in Spain

Crash mainly on the plain

Now why is that?

The dragon in my chimney

 Time is rotting space away

I wish I could stay

time is a rabble

There's a dragon in my chimney

Saving face at break of day

I wish I could stay

But I have to travel

Peaches and nectarines

Summer fruit from afar

And I am an equestrian

Person standing at the bar

The bores and the idiots

Have removed to mars

But the floating cool ones

Oh those who make life

Look easy, oh those endlessly

Confident and interesting

When Spanish runs out

But never the stout

Oh to be among that number

When the saints come marching in

Comedy

 Sat through a comedy

It's all such a fucking comedy

But at least they're trying to be funny

Sending themselves up on stage

Playing the fool,

It's a reason to live after all

But they weren't that funny

Even the werewolf compere

Who wasn't meant to be funny

As a foil

That somehow elevates the comedians

Above the level of the ordinary

By contrast

Even her

With her assassin's face

She looked like a Rebecca

As unreachably attractive

As any I've known

Those who know their own looks

But perhaps

That's all they have

What a low down dirty mood I'm in

The coming storm

The waiting for it

And now it's here, wet and depressing

As if it will never end

How am I meant to make light of

Weather that wants to turn you

Into a slug?

I respect them these comedians

I don't find them that funny

But I respect them

Over-thinking

 I died of being sensible

They lived by being cruel

And not that it's defensible

But I'm going back to school

I need to learn that kindness kills

If not your health, then your thrills

It stops the natural order coming

The instincts aren't surrendered to

But replaced by rational thinking

Thinking, thinking where's that got me?

Down the street chewing toffee

Chewing on my cup of meat

Drinking down my coffee

Thinking, thinking it has scoffed me

Taken my time and torn it off me

Knocked me on my ass

Put my head through the glass

Mistaken the stars and moon for trash

Thinking where's that got me?

Oh to be free of

This need to look after me tod

Just a will to fill the stomach

Leaves the heart and genitals redundant

Nothing for them to do but fester

Then at some later time pester

You into action, but you'll survive

To live another day, or strive

Because whether we live or just survive

This is our lot and these are our lives

Try

 You say that it's the patriarchy

I say that it's the monarchy

You say that it's an oligarchy

I say it's a monopoly

Oh it's all just a theory

All just a pose

Position yourself in opposition

Of a loving dose

Give and take

But I can't forgive

Yet she says

It's better to act and ask forgiveness

Than to regret something

You've never done

I agree it's true

To try to live is better

Than never to try

And die

love traps

 I used to believe in love

But instead I see I'm in a power trap

I've fallen into the snare of

A woman who acts as a sly cat

You see that is feminism at work

The power dynamic shifted

Whether by subtle means and trickery

She has got her way

Behind all that must be feelings

But I am just a tool

For that achievement

A means by which she gets what she needs

In her own relationship

Extra leverage if you will

I've been naive it seems

And fallen for her innocent

Guileless demeanor 

When she is a cunning spider

In disguise

And I've been a gullible fly

Railway dreams

 I remember when we used to

cycle across the railway bridge

With friends

Down the road from Ashcott

And the walk through the glens

And hanging greenery

That was the woodland there

All is gone, or have I moved on?

What remains is just a memory

In my mind's ear I hear

The steam trains shuffling

Whistling clear

their boiler bellies puffing

And yet I know the end of the track is coming

And yet I know I'll follow it to the sea

Burnham and Highbridge

Try to launch ourselves

Across the Severn estuary

We have no chances

Just to be swept up

And drowned in the wash

Still there's the hope

We could catch a boat

And make it to Cardiff or Penarth

And we could keep going

Because the end of the line

Is so far off

Perhaps it's a lie

But it's a good one

I wish to tell myself

That we can reach the end

Of the rainbow

That there's a future

Worth thinking of

Folly

 We were standing at the folly

That silly place of fun

To build a tower to nowhere

But by building it, it's a somewhere

We stand and gather every year there

almost

Like you, folly, were almost a tower

Almost a mansion

Almost a reasonable action

Our friendships are for their own sake

Just because, needing no reason

But you're beautiful in your pillars,

Cornices, plinths to nowhere

To noone in particular

And therefore to everyone

And anyone who cares to visit

Can claim this folly as their own

Like you, we were created in the image of a

Grand design, the rest is left

To the imagination

Like that moment when we were

young and our futures

Were left unwritten

Still up to us to fill in

The blanks

Slow Owl

 Slow owl slow owl

you go so slowly

Why do you take so long

To wake up in the morning

Cause you've been hooting all night long

Slow owl, what d you mean about

burning the candle in the morning

and in the night time too?

Is it any wonder you're asunder

Caught between the devil

And the blue

If there was thunder would

you wonder

What on earth it all meant

To you?

Slow owl, oh can you tell

what I am knowing?

Slow owl, can you tell

If it is true?

That the lives we live

Are always going

Down the toilet

With the toilet paper too

Slow owl, slow owl

When you turn your head

I think that you aren't knowing

What you just said

I think the sun is slowing

Yes it's burning low and red

So slow owl, slow owl

It's time you showed 

Yourself instead

You and me

 Some people blame the patriarchy

Some blame the wishing well tree

And you, you blame the anarchy

Of what separates you from me

I loved an image, I loved an age

It was far gone in antiquity

And you, you love the liquidity

Of seasons that to me are strange

I fell asleep on my head

And you fell asleep on the page

And we would rather be dead

But Who am I to say that it's rage?

I kiss the ground that you walk on

But you kiss the cat on the stage

And she walks the cat walk of fashion

Which is a passion of our age

I think that I'm modern

You think that I'm caged

I blame it all on my mother

Who had me when she was middle aged

Maybe your theories are just theories

Maybe we are sand in the waves

Being washed by time's ravages

But it's in our love that we can be saved

To Be Having or not to be having

 Some people don't want what they have

a baby, a love or a cab

Some people want what they don't have

And that can be harder to grab

But which is the better?

The having or the missing?

The loss or the obtaining

I'm not complaining

Or even saying

Whether one is wrong or right

It's not in our hands to fight

But if you never fight

Then you never might

Gain control of what you

Want but do not need

It is food for the soul

Or is it fuel for greed

It's a skill to know

Whether you fail or succeed

For there's still a while to go

Before the sands of time bleed

American dreaming

 Let's hear it one more time for

The American dream

Fear and loathing

It's a brand of clothing

You can buy in a Walmart

But if you're smart

The Chinese have made it

And you've paid for it

With the American dream

Oh everybody's equal

Or so it would seem

But only in America

Because that's what it means

But really what they're saying is

We're better than you kids

Comprendez?

It's a foul game,

It's a penalty

Except the referee's

The one holding the keys to Life and Liberty

And how about the pursuit of happiness?

Well that only exists in excess

So buy, buy, buy your way to heaven

Unless you live the American dream

Who knew things could go so wrong?

It's just a show kid, no need to be your swan song

It's like we're playing Risk or a game of double jeopardy

On the Tv, with your host the President and his First Lady

It's not as if this is reality, could have fooled me

How about a parody? How about a comedy? How about a tragedy?

Is it any wonder that the world's a disparity?

The glass is half empty, or is it half full?

Well I know some have plenty and others hungerful

Can you see enough vulgarity, is it wonderful

Is this what you Americans want on your dinner plates?

Just a plastic president who spouts out rage and hate?

 Just a smarmy army, full of red neck types

Just a whisky swigger and stereotypes

Tell me if it's wonderful or really if it's ripe

That you're eating chicken by the binful

And scoffing down the tripe

I need to take a moment, I can't believe my eyes

No, justice is blind, or I thought that was right

Now I can't believe my ears are those my cries?

Or someone else in pain and should I try to be nice?

Now I've lost the power of speech, I'm mute

But the voice of reason it doesn't sound cute

And it wouldn't get a season on the Disney plus network

So Let's all just play dumb until the President forgets it

And nothing he says means anything at all

Because there is no truth just a game of lies 

in his American dream

Wait until Spring

 I can't, can't wait until Spring

Keep on, how long can you keep on

Fighting the darkness, battle to win?

Keep on, how long can you keep on?

I can't wait, wait until spring 

Winter's are glowing

And rain it is flowing

Down from grey skies

And I am knowing, yes I am knowing

I don't want to die

But I can't wait, no I can't wait

I can't wait for my life to begin

I can't, but I've got to wait now

I can't wait, wait until Spring

There are birds flocking the fields

Finding their meals, beating their wings

They can't wait, wait until Spring

And the martyrs are looking up from the puddles

The world's in a muddle, reflected within

They can't wait, wait until Spring

The sea under my thumb

 I had the sea under my thumb

I had a bee in my bonnet and a bread crumb

It came out of me like I had gone numb

Oh I had the sea under my thumb

We had really pushed the boat out

It was a flotilla of rudders and clout

It was seasoned by unders of trout

Floundering, foundering all about

I skinned a brass monkey flew six sheets to the wind

I wasted my money on blackjack but never to win

And old sally's army has me by the skin

Of my nose, my teeth and my false grin

They're liars those men I meet at the bar

They're liars, charlatans con artists they are

Pretending to be the wise men of the ship

But they're scrabbling round inside of a skip

Why did I ever offer up my piano

the last chance I had of bringing it narrow

Singing it sparrow

It was mine, but I gave it away

To people who will never be friends anyway

People who I pay

People who I pay

The sea is rotten as a green tomato

and I am forgotten before I even start oh

Have I an option, or am I overcome

With the greatest sadness of all, 

that's missing my mum

Seven seas or Oceans Eleven part 1

 There's the Pacific

That's Terrific

There's the Adriatic, quite dramatic

The Aegean, that's tragean 

The Caspian, that's almost Latvian

The Black sea it was a slack sea

The Red sea, it was ahead of me

As I rode back from the dead sea

Still alive quite luckily

Then the Atlantic, I was frantic

Sailing about in a panic

But I found my bearings

without the scarings in the Berings

But it wasn't easy and I got quite queasy

As I joined the Chukchi

The Strait was laced

With all I've faced

And ever hope to after

But chuckling laughter

Overcame me

As I headed North West towards Alaska

Yes it was a task Sir

I ask yer

Sailing the Beaufort scale

I hit every kind of gale

And tried to master

My ship from certain disaster

Crossed the map

The lap of land

They call The North Pole

Didn't see a soul

But thought I'd stay in control

As I circled the Arctic Ocean

There was a polar bear or two

In the Siberian vicinity

And a cuttlefish who knew

What it all meant to me

I put on the kettle

And tested my mettle

As I passed through Kara and Berrents

Whoever said there were only seven seas?

They didn't make any sense

I could have bet my bottom dollar

That that Norwegian with the high collar

Was Father Christmas

Or just getting pissed as 

A Svalbardi President Lincoln

After that I took a break in Greenland

And found it as green as grain of sand

But for all that I loved the diversity

Of all the titanic icebergs adversity

They made me glad I wasn't at university

Though of course I am sad at that perversity

Still I journeyed on to the Labrador Sea

It was a well behaved doggie

It barked and lapped

But I patted its back

And it fetched its tide there and slack

And I felt like a stick a drift

As I was lassoed by the Sargasso 

Toe to toe, I heave hoed

With every rope in the rigging

And I was jigged without much hope

Down onto the Caribbean 

The warm was wind

And the wind was warm

And the seaweed full of eels

And it made me feel

Head over heels

As I felt the tropic of Cancer

A thunder and a blowing storm

As night time was the right time

To drink rum and watch the wild Palms sway

I lay on my back in the sand

And visited bars

And lost nearly every hand

Of poker, but I played on

And penniless returned to sea

The truth hit me near Chile

That I'd scoffed a lot of chocolate

In the sea of Scotia

And it was heating up inside me

I need to cool off

So I molokoved down for a cocktail

In the Antarctic circle

What's the rush?

 Oh where do you think you're going?

And what's the rush

The sea is still flowing

And it's master of us

You're not the rulers of land or law

Her name is Nature

And she's red in tooth and in claw

Well, Jesus is the ruler of the hearts of me

And God his father in heaven above

But there's only one ruler under the sun

And her name is Nature 

and she's a son of a gun 

The drovers

 End of the drove

Where do they go?

All those people

When the bar closes?

All those lost people

All those lonely souls

Bitter as litter

That blows

When the field knows

The cattle in rows

Filled, eating the bar

Chewing the cud

Drifting back home

In their droves

But where do they go?

Another bar opens

And they hang there

Like pegs

On a line with no

Clothes

More you than me

It's more you than me

Like the fishes in the sea

When they hold out for school

We better get back to the cool

Oh it's more you than me

I've got an African doll

It's a voodoo for the soul

I've been meaning to break free

Oh it's more you than me

Have you heard the church bells?

The virtues they extol  

so why can't you see?

That it's more you than me

Amulet

 Amulet, oh amulet

Are you for sale or let?

It's the way you dangle like a charm

Just out of reach, fall into my arms

Swinging like a chandelier

Once so far, now so near

I'm in love with you Amulet

Oh Amulet, you're like Juliet

And I'm your Romeo

Come down from your balcony

And we'll go home-o

No I don't want an Emu, I want an Amu

But it'll have to be an IOU, I won't forget

If you want us to walk in our dancing shoes

Dear Amulet

Oh Amulet, oh Amulet

I can see how it's dangerous for you

To stand there so alone with vacant eyes

Like a warehouse with no goods

Empty as a pocket, oh my poor Amulet

Once you were filled with eyes and ears and legs

Once there were boys and girls and now

There's only pigeon eggs

Well if all the world's a stage,

Then your's hasn't been written yet

Woe betide those who've tried

To write-off the Amulet

You're going to make a come back

I can see it in the stars and I'll bet

You'll make a bloody good theatre

And you deserve another go-get

So let's raise a toast

And make a boast

Of our Dear Amulet

Joke 621

 What type of behaviour do fishmongers exhibit?

Selfish behaviour

House of love

 Put one brick upon another

 For your father, for your mother

And build a house of love

Put one brick upon another

For your sister, for your brother

And build a house of love

Build a bridge across the valley

Throw your TV into the alley

And Let's build a house of love

Build a bridge across the valley

Let the train run forth and sally

And build a house of love

Yes it's a coming out the dark

It's a burning with a spark

So let's build a house of love

Let's leave behind the darkness

Turn on the heat of the furnace

And let's build ourselves a house of love

Yes, you know this could be our finest hour

And it's all in our hands, within our power

So come on let's build a house of love

I heard an owl call

It was a roll call

To build a house of love

I heard an owl call

Gather one an all

Let's build a house of love

Everything has changed

 She sits alone in her room

Contemplating her doom

I walk along I hear an owl

I think I hear a baby howl

The mist fills the road

Like a broom

Sweeping up everything

On its loom

And silently the world 

Has rearranged

Yes it seems like

Everything has changed

Oh yes I can feel it

Everything has changed

In the park is all so dark

On the stage it's turned over a page

And the night has turned on it's light

Yes everything has changed

Everything has changed

Everything has changed

Everything has changed

It's like a needle and a thread

I'm half alive

But I'm also half dead

I've got this real drama

In her polka-dot pyjama

And I've got

All the shots

Of love and rage

And everything has changed

Everything has changed

Dingos eating honey

 You make me feel like the world's unsafe

You tell us all that we can't trust ourselves

You've undermined my faith in humanity

You stir and instil a sense of fear

And before you came it wasn't near

So get the hell off the radio and tv screens

And don't darken the doorway to my dreams

Oh Trump and Elon you all are liars

Sitting up there in your towers on fire

Get out now, I won't bow to you

Because you're the big man with the big world view

Oh get off now it's your funeral pyre

And you built your castle on AI wires

And thought so thoughtless

It's not thought through

Because you only asked an intelligence

That just wants to please you

You got rocks in your brain, and you ain't worth mud

So just wash down my drain with all your spilt blood

And dissolve in the sea and never come back to flood

Our thoughts and our times with your brand of crud

River Mouth Smile

 below the delta

Interminable, intermingled

In the sadness of a thousand water webs

Caught again

The fly is hungry for the gold

Of flow and ebb

That gold thread just beyond its reach

And in the silt, of muddied eyes

It sees the thousand skies

And sands of a thousand islands

All being built beneath the delta

In the mangroves

Below the delta

Where the river leaves its pith

And anger

On its stolen safari through

The land, roving near and far

In its meander

Leaving but a scar

And a smile

On its river mouth

Below the delta

And I am there in my dreams

Washed up between you

And the shore

Washed up between you

And the sea

Knowing not which way to turn

Will the river want more

Want more from me

Or will it set me free

Below the delta

Impeachments

 Moving to a country, gonna have a lot of impeachments

 Moving to a country, gonna have a lot of impeachments

Impeachments come from a can, they were put there by a man

In a courthouse uptown

If I had my way those impeachments would be here to stay

Like a ladder of law that never fade

 Moving to America, gonna have a lot of impeachments

 Moving to America, gonna have a lot of impeachments

I looked at a little map, where the routes all twist

Squished a rotten president in my fist

And dreamed about America's freedom

I poked my nose inside the white house doors

And made room for one immigrant or more

Nature's justice in my hand, impeachments come from a can

As American as apple pie

Millions of impeachments, impeachments for me

Millions of impeachments, impeachments for free, look out

Millions of impeachments, impeachments for me

Millions of impeachments, impeachments for free, look out

The Liberty bell

 We banked up the bank

With our wave of flags

Rooted in the sand as secure

As biting crabs

And we grabbed the weighing anchor

And lowered her to ground

And it found the depth we were seeking

It rang the deepest sound

And the ship was lolling on the rolling sea

And our bell it was tolling out for liberty

But cracked, it came a looming

Like a death knell a dooming

And fell right through the deck 

Stopped on the bunk on top of me

Well too much freedom it will kill you

It seemed to be saying to me

As I stared up into its mouth's vast entirety

Like a Whale's and might I Jonah be?

Well the ship it listed and the bell rung on

Clanking its hammer over my head ding-dong

Alarums, alarums the other sailors rushed forth

What is it? This seaman has save us of course

But the bell was lodged firmly into the bunk

And we left it there fearing else we'd be sunk

Oh come you democrats and tell all your cousins

This ship is a republic, we'll hang royals by the dozen

If you call her America she'll sally forth

But leave far behind the land of her berth

You see our Captain was a tyrant a rogue and a gambler

He played with our lives like they were daft shamblers 

And told us to scrub and told us to heave ho

The ropes and the sails and after mad whales row

It shocked me, it shook us to our foundations

That a ship of our size which had lead other nations

Could be steered into waters too treacherous to fathom

And at the helm always was our mad captain 

Mocking bird

 Mockingbird, mockingbird

Cry me a river

I hear you calling

How can you forgive her

For talking to him in that way?

Shy, shy, oh shy away

Denial is the better part of our foreplay

For what is love but a footprint in the clay

Left by a rambler who has walked on their way

Mocking bird of the mountain

Call me back one day

Sing of how the others sing

Sing of what they say

Are you a writer, are you an artist?

Do you show life at its smartest or hardest?

Worst or best news spread around the glade

Mockingbird, mockingbird sing your sweet serenade

Rubba a dub dub three men on a drug

 Heroine is the villain

And Crack is the Kraken

And the Hero is Smith and Wesson

And it's hold up in the guestroom

And Ketamine is the Veteran

Of the Veterinarian

And Cannabis is the Anubis

Of the Egyptian Harum Scarum

The scarab is an arab

With a vix vapour rub

And the cold room of the Hareem

Is the bathtub plug 

So scary a divertimento

Leaving a momento

Of your time in the prison of assassin grins

And wiles

While all the while you try to smile

At the fear factory boredom maker

The boardroom baker

Bake me a file as fast as you can

Can it in the can can

Of a thousand steps to dance

And finally fall asleep

Upon your own sordid lance 

Wassail song

Wassail, wassail bring us a bowl of cider

Delicious and good it churns up inside ya

We go a wassailing, wassailing, wassailing

Fear no more the dark times' assailing

Forces of Winter, nor the evil spirits 

We shall dance merrily around with sprigits

Of your finest branches, blanche not in fright

For the fire is warming and brings a good light

All of us together the darkness cannot turn

For we are apple lovers and to the new spring learn

How to live in light and joy of coming season

So Wassail, wassail for what better reason?

Share in good cheer, and share with the tree

For this year's harvest the best of ever will be

Come gather round all and hear our wassail song

Let the Robins and orchard birds all sing along

We pour cider on your roots so you may grow strong

 We beat our pots and pans and sound our loud drums

And soon we'll be drinking and raising spirits high

As the past year's sad ghosts flee off into the sky

So come with us now and join our merry rabble

With good heart through the year may you now travel 

Prospects for 2026?

 What is this life but a shadow on the wall

A woman is shot in an Immigration hall

It sparks a revolution, an American civil war

The guns are a shooting, and will missiles soar

And heads of state topple, it's all enthrall

The livers of policemen hang like guttural

Cries of religion upon depleted market stalls

Back in England, we are digging up the past

Clans who once were destined, now given a second chance

Lost in insurrection America stumbles and falls

Russia are battering on Europe's backwall

And Suddenly we wake up as if a Carnix cry

The streets are a heaving we realize we don't want to die

And people begin to fight

America shrinks, but so does the world

Because they can't sell Soybeans to China

And So the Chinese stomachs wimper minor

Keys of pity

And though they try to invade Taiwan

Domestic starvation leads to economic wan

The lights go out in the city

Their tech companies cannot save them

For who can buy it but Americans

And the dollar is crumbling

And Russia have hit back,

The US satellites are tumbling

After a Russian missile attack

So then the infrastructure of the world is in collapse

And the world wide web is in shreds

Like the spiders have been given up for dead

And have left the secret skills of weaving under wraps

I'm still holding out for a solution

But Then the nukes start to launch

And what isn't left in dire pollution 

Has suddenly got torched

And not to put too finer point

On the end of 2026

But those of us who do wake up

Need our weetabix

Slowly oh so slowly

We begin to feel and move

And There is food,

But it is local only grown

where there's technology it's only crude

And travel is anathema to any common sense

Because when you leave the confines of your country's fence

You realize everywhere's in ruins

And you might as well build strong your home

And it really did take all those years

To build up the city of Rome

So we talk to our neighbour because

Only half the world survived

And we learn how to treat them better

And how to live better lives

After death

 After a near encounter with death

It felt like slipping into a dark hole

A pit of an endless fall

The fear of losing life,

Losing self-control

I see the sun on the brick wall

And it is beautiful

As I remember when I was a child

In an orchard

Just lying on the grass

Doing nothing at all

We are so lucky to live in this world

The willow grows, reaches to the sun

And I breathe, free air

Where the body is trusted

And I think what sin it's been

That I ever lacked self care

I want the sun forever

And I don't want to lose myself in the moon

I want the sun's goodness to guide me

I want to visit the sea

And ask her to hold me there

I want to stay in bed and admire the sun on the bricks on the wall

Opposite my room on the street of Saint Paul

Broken mass

 King Midas sat on the toilet

Turning his shit into gold

Just gold bricking it, shitting it out

Until that toilet got sold

And you're like some shit alchemist

Who turns my gold into lead

To whom I bring my desire and you insist

That I take it elsewhere instead

And yet you hold up your fire

As if a beacon to guide me home

And I rise ever higher and higher

Only to always come down alone

So what is the point to this dichotomy

One in which you only give out vasectomy

And leave my dead flowers to rot til eternity

Comes round or hell freezes over

I'm cutting off now before I'm run over

I'm already a burn victim in the vice of the system

I'm as undisciplined as my rhyme scheme

I'm holding aloft my flag of surrender

Saying I can't take it anymore

Just leave me alone on my own private shore

This is the end of our un-alchemical amore