the escape

the escapeThe Escape

When Rudolph the red nosed reindeer wanted to

Be normal and join the flock on earth, Santa got depressed

Sat by many of Finland’s lakes contemplating his life

He too was tired of flying through the air and gets a cold

He wanted sunlight and a sandy beach.

He got hold of a tame water buffalo and an unemployed

Drunk from Helsinki and for a while they got away with it

Till an elf with a grudge told a newspaper about it and children too

Had long wondered why Rudolph had two horn, not antler and why

Santa was late, swore and kept falling off his sledge.

Santa had to come back from Thailand and sort out this corruption

He told twitter he was sorry, but fired blabber mouthed elf.

He had to look for a sober man to act as Santa and train a new reindeer,

Because Rudolph and had got the taste of the high life. 

epigram

Epigram

I don`t want to wait long patience is not my virtue

But when it does happens it will happen too fast

Just as I want time to slow down.

Geography and Racism

Geography and Geography and Racism

I have only seen

Africa from the deck

Of a ship sailing by

What I know comes

From books

White men meeting

In darkest Africa

The merchants followed

Soldiers

And colonisation

Racism is contagious and

It settled in the mind

Of Europeans

The illness widened to

Include everyone not white

Now we live

With our trespasses

It truly is a burden

mystery tour

Mystery Tour

I hired a car wanted to drive to the country side

where I spent part of my childhood.

By a farmhouse that looked familiar, I stopped

a dog came out of an up ended barrel greeted me,

Is Jason coming home?

The farmer and his wife came out, he patted me

on my head, and his wife gave me a hug and said:

“a little boy once lived here.”

In the kitchen, they gave me two slices of loaf with

blueberry jam on, my favourite food as a child.

The couple had not aged in fifty years and their

eyes I was that little boy

 I took my farewells and promised to visit soon.

A bus drove passed throwing up dust and when it settled the couple,

 and the farm had disappeared into the mist of time.   

Misapprehension | Write Out Loud

Misapprehension | Write Out Loud

the fest

The Fest  

The Christmas Eve began with smiles and laughter,

where I come from Christmas day is a hanger over day

after excesses the night before.

Plenty of food and drink, aquavit and beer this was long

before wine came the in thing to drink and we sang and gave

presents and had a jolly good time for a while.

Someone made a sarcastic remark that was met with

a bad-tempered answered, suddenly everyone remembered

a slight going back twenty years ago and more

A fight broke out the yule tree ended up in the snow

police were called to calm things down and mother

came out of the kitchen serving coffee.

Next morning my father went out and collected tree decorations,

 good for next year`s Christmas party he wearily said,

and for once no once no one was arrested.