Sunday, 12 January 2020

2 Pints of Retribute and a Packet of Myths Please

There's a dent in
The bigdaft pub on the end
1 of those scarvesoff boozers

He Anglicised
His angereyes on the bend
2 of murdermayhem soon as

The crow goes
The backmarch bit back
3 times overstruck themoon as

It's postunder
The pooltable hit crack
4 force memory floors the loser

Saturday, 11 January 2020

Hamming it up a St. John's Tanka


Hamming it up St.
John's tavern eight round eight and
Plastic teeth don't fit
Crisp bread rapido and I
Berico the Archway fit

Sunday, 5 January 2020

Evidently Fat Cat Town

The Ashley PR's Ashley keen

To Ashley keep it Ashley clean

The Ashley chief’s an Ashley swine

Who Ashley draws an Ashley line

At Ashley winning Ashley games

The Ashley fans they Ashley blame

Are nowhere to be Ashley found

Anywhere in Fat Cat Town


The Ashley football's Ashley sad

The Ashley news is Ashley bad

The Ashley board are Ashley tanned

The Ashley press are Ashley banned

The Ashley folks are Ashley daft

Don’t make me Ashley laugh

It Ashley hurts to look around

Everywhere in Fat Cat Town


The Ashley pay is Ashley late

You Ashley wait you Ashley wait

You’re Ashley lost and Ashley found

Stuck in Ashley Fat Cat Town


The Ashley view is Ashley vile

At SJP for Ashley miles

The Ashley families Ashley cry

The Ashley workers Ashley die

The Ashley shops are full of muck

The Ashley shares are Ashley fucked

We're Ashley going Ashley down

Once again in Fat Cat Town


The Ashley pubs are Ashley dull

The Ashley club is Ashley full

Of Ashley girls and Ashley guys

With Ashley pound signs in Their eyes

An Ashley bloke is Ashley whacked 

The Ashley con in his contract

You Ashley stay at Ashley home

At least the neighbours Ashley moan

Sack The Ashley Steve Bruce clown

This is Ashley Fat Cat Town


The Ashley pay is Ashley late

You Ashley wait you Ashley wait

You’re Ashley lost and Ashley found

Stuck in Ashley Fat Cat Town


The Ashley pies are Ashley old

The Ashley chips are Ashley cold

The Ashley beer is Ashley flat

The Ashley cats are Ashley fat

The Ashley regime's Ashley wrong

The Ashley season's Ashley long

It Ashley gets you Ashley down

Evidently Fat Cat Town


Friday, 3 January 2020

Which One of Us is Driving this Tanka, Duck?

Time turns December
Withers into January 
Bills post and I'm all
Ready on the March question
Against us are you with us? 

Thursday, 2 January 2020

Paris, Tanka

Tract 827
One way sect is asking what
From the onset a
Mericana drama why
The horse long-faced nicely shot

The Skrike

The confort buzz of the oven 
The pebble shape of 
The earplug trying to find
The floor he found the floor
The glasses the noisy bastards 
The noise the sign the skrike
The sign he drew he cannot see
Assumes it says
Welcome to my life

Haiku 159

My first chopped herring
Last night new years' day turned out
Timmy Smells was right