Friday, August 5, 2016

potatoes

Potatoes
I was on old steamer once it was loaded with
Idaho potatoes and bound for Peru it was not much fun
with the potatoes came rats and insects
but we got rid of them, the rats when unloading a Lima
Port, but there was a plague of crabs
that came onboard in Lima, but that was not the blame
of the potatoes.
I had thought the root vegetable potato was discovered
In Peru and brought Europe, I don`t if this was a blessing
seeing so many fat children
filling their faces with Pommes Frites.
When eating out, I make it quite clear I don`t want
any potatoes having seen a thousand rat dancing on top of them
but they still bring me potatoes; I used to give them to my dog
she got fat and had a heart attack
I had one too, but that was caused by smoking.
During the war when the Nazis occupied my country potatoes
boiled with the skin on was the norm, my mother said the vitamins are
under the skin, it could also be she hated peeling
I remember she was throwing up in the sink she blamed the spuds
But she was pregnant, and I didn`t know before

I had a younger brother who was fed mashed potatoes 

Sunday, February 14, 2016

Evening and Elvis Priestly

Evening and Elvis Priestly

Evening and Elvis Priestly

Saturday afternoon and it is raining
I flicked from channel to channel it is about war
and the endless suffering of the poor.
People living in cemeteries and children always
at some play thigh bones as sword, and other
live on a rubbish heap among rodent and flies
and they fight with seagulls for scraps of food
and the children get sick and die
because they cannot see a doctor and if they could
could not pay the medicine needed;
 and the war goes on 
a perpetual war machine that never stops.
An abject thought is all this for nothing
 – I blame the rain-
people born for no reason at all? No, it cannot be
like this young eyes meet young eyes
“Love me tender love me true…”
Mothers love their children and never let them go.
 The perpetual war machine revs up is it coming


our way, have we paid the piper?

Saturday, February 13, 2016

big rabbit sonnet

big rabbit sonnet

Big Rabbit Sonnet
 Giant rabbits are not
cute as you think when they
are in a group then they sneer at us and make funny
noises aping human speech, they live in the forest
across the road and frightens hunting dogs.
The small village where I live is almost empty people
have either died or moved to old folks home where
they live three people in each room and get beans and
lard to eat the home`s owner lives on imported caviar.

The huge rabbits wanted to take the village over crossed
 the road and in the
village square fought a battle with rats
that claimed the place belonged them by ancient rights.
A woman came out of one of a house kicked a rat lifted up
a rabbit and the rest went dewy-eyed, the cuddly had won


over the ugly, rabbits are edible rats not so much. 

Friday, February 12, 2016

the twilight zone | Write Out Loud

the twilight zone | Write Out Loud

The Twilight Zone
In the nearest town and close to all amenities
such as hospitals and funeral parlours my wife
and went to look at an elderly people’s hotel
where people of a certain age get a small flat to
live in, yet it has a café for the social evening with
where young ladies who have gone to university
and studied geriatrics, sing and give the recital of
something suitable not to offend and often
a priest comes around and talks about Jesus.

Sunny Lodge the place was called, and we thanked
the manager we should think about it and was given
brochures to read. Driving home my wife cried, she
has a daughter who is no quite there I have no offspring
we decided to live in our cottage as long as possible
egoistically, I hoped to die before her it would save me
the funeral and sorting out and throwing away my private
collections of bleakly second-grade poetry, blowing in


the dusty wind of forgotten time.

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

dead canines in Spaim

 Dead Canines in Spain

The Aegean Sea, another rubber dinghy sank 30 people drowned
most of them Syrians and from the hateful a smile when they are
stupid risking their life and come here wanting to live like us.
 A good Syrian is a dead one, and they did not have much of value
for a state to confiscate and none of them had a higher education just
some uneducated bodies bringing nothing but their humanity and
children now drowned.

To make matters worse, they were Muslims too, from rural backwaters of
 an alien culture, so we do not have to worry about them anymore,
expendable people both in their country and the countries they hoped would
give them succour. There are so many other inequities around, look at the way
they treat dogs in Spain isn`t that a shame something for the face- book.

 So send some money to the people who try to rescue the dogs.