Friday 29 November 2019

Manchester Train Waiting

They're flogging
Mulled bubbles
Down the
Manc swank bar
They're standing
At the station
Contemplating Kid R
The coldness is atrocious
The bar crawl is precocious
The supping tins
Basket bins
Eyes out
Wi' fluffy bras
Kids with
Mid range
Pre-coital stinge
Recluse their rage
Thus far
Brought together
By separation and
Saggy private
Train operation
Scratchy tannoy
Mass mendacioun
Then a football fan 
With a driving ban
Sings this is MCR

Tanka on the Megabus

Shake up this bag of
Traffic strip search for salty
Packet plastic time
Piece waggons off the shoulder
In asymmetric aspic

Tuesday 26 November 2019

Domestic Machinery Scenery

It's aculture The whitegoods Are outagain Washers spinthedirt on Toilets cutoffbythecistern Fridges gassing matresses  Laidoff cursed forgotten No repairs upstairs For throwaway rotten This domesticmachineryscenery Epitaphs with bettingpen & Confuses hugely A landing robin

Does my brain look big in this?

Does my Brain Look Big in This? All these self-sacrificial Sheeping up to clothe Their own downfall conceit Would be free gifts For the schadenfreude Wolves of shopping mall street If it weren't for bleary-eyed Mirror-checks on Intellectual suicide vests & keeping the receipt

Monday 18 November 2019

'A' Non in J. Roth Street

Case no.
A
Non 
Heard by court judge
A
Non
Mr
A
Non
Was instructed
To find alter
Native accommod
A
Tion
Within five days
A
Failing which
Non
With 
Standing efforts
On
Thee most 
Strenuous efforts of
A
Behalf to do so
Mr
A
Non 
Would find himself punish
A
Ble 
On
Grounds of m
A
King
Himself homeless the
A
Pellant
Was further warned that in
A
Cor
Dance
With 361
Subsection
A
Te of criminal law such 
Punish
Ment
Will con
Sist
Of up to sick
Weaks in pris
On
And in 
A
Core
Dance
With 362
Transferred to the police
A
Thaw
Ritties for
A
Place in the workhouse
A
Proved and signed Mr
A
Non
Homelessmanand
A
Pol
Ease K's
Worker

Wednesday 13 November 2019

Classroom Shangri-la

The play entitled
"The disband of the
Supply and demand teacher
(Double feature)" 
Hit the cutting room floor

The cast of broken legs
Were signed off by kids
Boxed chocolates were scripts
For dwindling kindling
Unlistened to monologues
Were put to fire

There was no desire
To budget for another bucket
The caretaker was scared to
The head refused to
Remove itself from sand

The deputy danced
To the 11 year old band
At the Christmas show
Playing
Money money money

Slow
Real
Slow

Tuesday 12 November 2019

Cally Road Supermarket

Cally Road Supermarket Sweep Gormless & student Glide round in slippers Wide eyed slow picky Wollworthian nippers Mixing it with me Carrying his kitchen Here to get custard & A couple of 3 bits in They're snails & I'm fried & far from mustard My shopping list Hits the ditch

Sunday 10 November 2019

He wishes he was a little bit Tanka

The besuted soak
Watches the ball game basket
Fill itself under
Tbe bridge under the piss un
Do the top knot play some D

Tuesday 5 November 2019

The Fireworks on the Bridge Tanka

What's fireworks night
Got that I ain't got? The bridge 
Fireworks the bridge 
He took it to the and real
Eyesed he loved beer like a child 

Monday 4 November 2019

NY Jury Tanka

When the lowest bar's
Been raised these days these bloody
Days we ship Jurys
Surely the New York Times says
Best musical of the century 

Sunday 3 November 2019

Let's Idiot Ourselves a Tanka

Seeing the world through
Football eyes the only thing
We can summise is
Question whys we idiot 
Ourselves OK no replies 

Saturday 2 November 2019

Rumbardly and Trappist

The use
Deduced from
Faux Nins 
Plugged in
Jack from
The radio union
Spewed in
Chorton
Cum Hardy
Staid and
Plaid
Puts paid
The bowling alley
The lad
The cut
The chutspa
The input
Marked
Hardly
And out
Went the
Anything but
Views of
Nuns and
Narrow pins
Then some
Twelve son
Rumbardly
And trappist
They keep
On coming in

Poem whilst watching the nice breeders and the FT readers


The rah rahs
Cultivate the pub
The coffee bar spotifies
Dub
And in my
Overpriced
I knick me sandwiched
Knackered teeth
Pon de rub
And
If the English wind
Could be arsed
Twould 
Cry Mary
Maybe
*turns nose to snub