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