Raising a Tanka for Willie IV

Past t' chippy selling

Caviar sign that takes no crêpe 

Director's boots own

In place Russian fired fish

And a liar's eyewitness

Bouyant and Av'rage Tanka

Some fair bouyant

And av'rage felt a ghost stroke

His arse today as

The sponge of the area 

Wore daft on his sole that way

The Shopbottler

The spineclimbs

The bluebuilding

Intertwined

The twofor fivewine 

The shopbottler

Took the longwalk

'Fuckoff your

Entirechest'

He said

Inanoff balance

Stabbingincident 

'And keepsmiling 

At thedogs'

Turning whitethen

Roséred

Tankas for Goalposts

His brain defined as

A deflated Casey there

'Neath a back axle

Where he stooped to find jumpleads

For the goalposts of his mind

Tanka Fever Dream

All hedgehogs are from

New York I lost a pretend

Game of baseball too

Out with the in jokes and cog

Native matching wooden toes

Modern Tanka

You scared me and I

Accident'ly liked something

Started twitting at

Lookers and swipey Googlaze

Poems like this regurged bait

A Bridget over Troubled Tanka

On people watch at

Abstract show they've scruff of line

Earblast and oblong 

Spacing time large scale they can

Vas mono I make up throw

Toothbrush Tanka

I cannot believe You electric toothbrush lot Cannot stand the sink Batt'ry powered gravity Bowers wasting on the brink

End of Burnage Fold Tanka

Slash in the woods were

Ten steps bdown bdown b

Down f't' paper round

Swaping teeth break toffee then

F't' pub selling coffee now

Tanka for Ania

What teaches us the 

Drip of must that rolls down the 

Stablished thumbed page tea 

Is parties either lust or

Bust ne'er the bastards to be trust

Village Pub Waiting on Tanka

Village pub waiting

Int'resting incedent bait

Inward fruit machine's

Curtailing screaming out with

The gob in with the hating

ManU Sausage

Hilldweller's team's
From t'meat o't' city
Armbadges o' Celt &
Instabeef
Hipdweller's
From 20 10 milesaway
Strokes capitalbeard
Pushes 2veg frame
Peddles t'same
Polishes t'turd
Cuts thewhy
Hounds4 offgonemustard
Cept 2pints 4 10
Or 3 4 3
10a penny
Who's the wurst?

West Coast Irritanka

The husky voice-ed

Irritant has trained is wreck 

Owning aloud the 

Only joke worth having's no

One's ever done this before 

Another Taproom Passing

Another taproom passing 

Does not a poem make

Solid cabbies weeping

Another vacant space

Figuring the question inn

So beery asks another devastate

   Why you so upset? 

The reply described football style

By another commentate

   He owed me hundred quid! 

(It was then remembered 

Who he was 

Gob the size of the home end

Watch the price of a car

Landlady's clock

Around the head

For singing wrong songs

A name remembered

But yours forgotten

The partisan would anthem

Without full stop)

Therefore scored 

All laughter in his wake

As community shield's are

Played for keepers' sake

Offside the grief

The thing with tethers 

Feathers all nests

In willows break

Tanka the Horrible

Levelling killing 

Fields the mourning rain photo

Framed once housed these three

Horrible kids not their fault 

The coroner's painting peels

They've got your number

Last 4 digits Retirement age is APR Door flat 4 is Speed dial to AAA Lottery is Dates of death Statistics is Kids in care Years of service is Coins in cup Minutes of sleep is Number of bus
Stop Heart rate over 8 is Ticket in queue Death or glory is % swing red to blue

Shoreditch Haiku

Yap the winter dog
Cuts through grey wisp at crisp pace
Packet overtakes

An Ill-informed Tanka

No telegram to

Day only these leaves fell in

Cutting fields of thee

Dares compare the ill and ill

Informed processed meat and swill 

Lavish Bodice Bonus

(For the striking Wallace Collection workers)

For every 10k

Lavish bodice bonus

There are striking ruffs

Not asking much

In Century 21

And the only curio on display 

Is that fair pay can't be done

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

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

'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

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

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

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

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 

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 

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 

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

Song for AKS Zły

Who's that team AKS Zły? 

Who's that team we all adore? 

'Cos they play in black and white

And always want to fight

Rascism

Sexism

Homophobia

Give me Fritz Kola

And I'll sing this when I'm sober 'cos

Singing is in order

Tolerance the law

Who's that team we all adore? 

Poeting About Tanka

Always had the phrase

Appropriate about the

Look and gait of lads 

'Geezering about' now I'm

'Poeting about' and late

Arsenal Palace Tanka

The raucous north and

The uptight south a phase heard

In a football crowd

To drink the cattled upstairs

In suprise they'd find up there

Bryter Layter

It will be

Bryter layter

He said 

The pub teletext read

The brass they pay

For muck shifting

Antipodean

Hangs

Like a horse's head

Above the outdoor

To The Jacket Inn

Where

A month's paypacket 

Is a week

For JCB shitshovelling

Downunder

Downunder

I'm fuckingupforfuckingoff

Just youfuckingwatch

Whatsayyoulad

Eh? 

Factor this f'thee

No more factory 

No more

Nutsn'bolts

On buttered toast

No more scores daubed

On boilersuit backs

No stench

Where waste n' slack

Bubbles river n'

Deceases flowers as

The site collie barks the 

Effluents

No more

Strikesout

Of brittania matches

For seniorservice

Influence

No more

Welded dartsmatches

Or papered

Wanderers weekendwins

Or shiny shitroll

A thou' of an inch

Thin

No more

Rivetingrounds after

That 'r

Tapered t' ward

The dirt of what

Mightr'mightnot

Someone's missus

Mightr'mightnot

Get up to at

Peacetime piecerate

No more

Boyracing fitter's mates

Or the last surviving

Warehouse Elvis

Talking

Sugar soap sagas 

That just don't wash

And footbollocks wi'

Golfbores

Workbores n'

Pooling

Boringdraws

By the score

No more

Labour of swarfcuts n' 

Jobcuts n'

Crossedthreads that

Steely tread

Where

Gastaped

Armbanded colonels

Toast vents that

Clatter bare

Where

The trophy's took

To the strapping Jock

To polish it

Eatyafuckingdinneroffthatlad

Shiny square

Where

Sirens match

The hooter matches

Where back rows n' rows of

Overalls by ankles

Grunt f't Sun

With a tab on

After

The crack

Violence of eggyolk 

Across precarious

Outdated Industrialware

Reading pages

Back to 3

In perperfuckingtuity

No more

Wooden prospects

As halfsnapped yardbrooms

Asbestosly managed

Headtobastardtoe

In glazedraised

Portacabin shopfloorchic

With a report sneak

Of corrosiveliquid leak

Where

Corrosive tipoffs and

Calibrated ballots 'r

Forklifted by 

Dynasties of masculinity

On to millbranded

Pallets

Heaped

With standup teas of

Five sugars

Pleading lottery

And bonusbollocks at 

Ends of tabs n'

Ends of lines n'

Fish that big n'

Iron work thick in

Colours of ghosts that loom in

Boilerrooms

With the bang n' tick of

Barpressured

Overtime reliefshift

Schtick

Where

The polishedbrassmuck

Wi' governors 

Steaming pigs

About

Generalstrikes

That run out

Where

Corporalpunishments'

Major

For weepingscabs

For what

Nursesmaid of

Sucklinggrade

Plaster

All their ways

All the way

From the lathe

To the grave

And plenty

Of filterless

Eh? 

And plenty that 'r

Craven

Eh? 

And plenty of

Rightbastards

Rightbastards

Every bastard day

Eh?

It will be

Bryter layter

He says

On the way to fit

A nonreturn valve

Leaves 

Bosswhitefinger

Marks on

Blueleft shoulders

Canteenwise

In silent sympathy

Two filamenteyes

Describe goodbyes 

With no suprise

Aye

Reckon it will be

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