26 May 2009

Death

get away from me reaper man
get away from me
I'm not gonna to ride in your black limousine
I'm not gonna to play on your black tambourine
don't point your bone at me
don't rain on my parade
fear you not I'm not afraid
I wasn't born astride the grave
don't grind your teeth at me
I'm not gonna walk your wambeling road
I'm not unshouldering shouldery loads
away from me reaper man
away from me

Middle Age

Middle age is a stage,
full of teenagers,
in fashionable jeans,
playing music too fast,
while you search for a straw,
and try to ignore,
your best friend's new boyfriend,
who works for the government.

18 May 2009

Blue Gnomes

I looked out the window and my garden was full of gnomes dressed in little blue suits with pointy blue hats. I decided I would catch one, and I chased them around and around the garden. Finally I caught one but it turned its self into a blue bed-sheet. So I pegged it to the clothes line to stop it from escaping.

09 May 2009

Wolverine

Wolverine had tracked discovered that his mother was infact a supervillan, but that she was dead long ago. So he went to visit her secret lair. When he got to the lair he found that it was guarded by a giant troll, which he ran away from. But then he found that it was also guarded by a giant robot, so now he had both things chasing him. He discovered a sort of control panel that controlled everything in the lair, but it was in Chinese so he didn't know how to use it. He pressed some random buttons, and ended up releasing a giant lizard and also a giant mushroom with a mustache and a meat cleaver. Now he had four enemies. He pressed some more buttons and the floor gave way dropping him into a pool full of blood guarded by a giant serpent. It also released a ping-pong ball that if it touched the bottom of the pool the whole place would blow up. So to recap our here wolverine is now.....in a pool of blood wresteleing with a serpent whilst trying to stop the place blowing up, whilst a giant troll, robot, lizard and mushroom are all trying to kill him.........then I woke up.

Layers

Stripping away the layers
let's start with the luggage
then the home
then the language
stripping away the layers
let's continue with the cash
then the food
then the health
stripping away the layers
the friends who never showed up
the weather that turned bad
at the heart of this
all this...

I'm going to be a writer mum

I'm going to be a writer mum
you wouldn’t understand
I'll write some books
I'll write them good
So good tey will be banned
I know last week I said
that sculpting statues was for me
I know the tap dance classes
cost dad a modest fee
I know I haven't worked a day
Since 1993
But I'm going to be a writer mum
you'll see.

Put love in the dustbin

Put love in the dustbin,
Send it to the gutter,
tie it to a vehicle and push it off a cliff.
Send it to another country,
one way ticket.
Sell it to the highest bidder.
Camouflage it with technology.
Drown it like a bag of kittens.
Leave it in the rain and let it rot.
Throw it in the river and let it float.
Gather it into folds and set it on fire.
Smoke it like an illegal cigarette.
Push it in front of a train,
and wait.
Set your lawyers on it.
Set your dogs on it.
Set your god on it.
Be done with love.

Death of a Poet

What happens when a poet dies?
Well if their any good,
(touch wood)
Or even if they suck!
their family,
(but more likely lover)
get it published.
Then they stick them in the ground,
and people come around,
and throw flowers,
and wreaths,
and stuff.
Then the agent,
usually a small man,
(in a large suite)
creates some mythology,
to help sell the product.
Like that the poet was bi,
or insane,
or is not really dead at all.
(worked for Elvis).
Eventually the agent dies,
(and is forgotten as all agents are).
Then all that is left,
is the work,
the myth,
and a room full of bored high school students.

A poem about a song about you

A poem about a song about you.
I just thought I should write it.
I just thought you should know,
that I can be creative too,
in an inferior sort of way.
I cant sing it,
and I cant say it,
and it doesn’t rhyme,
but it had to be written.
For laughs if nothing ealse.

Go To the Dentist

Get off my mind! get off of my case!
Are you blind or just stupid!
This isn’t a race,
Stop fucking around!
And slow down your pace,
Cause you’ll end up dead
Or in jail.

Stop causing me worries!
Stop making me old!
Stop staying out late if you’ve got a bad cold!
Don’t give me grey hairs.
Grow up, get a job.
Stop relying on others!
Stop being a snob.

It’s like hitting my head, against a brick wall
You never listen! never ever at all,
Your so cruel! your so rude! Your so mean! your so tall.
It’s been months since you went to the dentist.

The Selfish Heart

The heart is a liar,
It can't see like the eyes,
or hear like the ears,
and yet it is always putting forth it's opinons.
It exists in it's own place,
apart from the world,
ill informed and ignorant.
It dose not eat like the stomach,
or need shelter like the skin,
it is selfish.

Nigel II

Nigel II loves me,
I love Nigel II,
Nigel II has a CPU
That never ever leaves me blue.
Nigel II is wise,
Nigel II supplies
me with the powers
to pass the hours,
I whish I could take
It in the shower,
But the electricity would kill me.

I wanna be a Goth

I wanna be a goth,
I wanna be a goth,
I wanna dye my hair black,
slick black boots,
face powder eye liner,
toung piercing spider tattoo,
heavy metal concert band,
dog collar neck spike,
torn lace glove hands,
Marlin Manson fans,
cigarette smoke life aura.

Summer in Brisbane

Summer in Brisbane blows in on the breeze,
you start taking off layers.
The trees inappropriately burst into flower,
magpies ATTACK!
Rotten things start to stink,
every one starts feeling sexy.
The ibis worry the tourists.
Too much spring for one person to handle.

here/there

I'm here,
you’re there,
and between us . . .
A screen,
A book,
Electricity,
Two careers,
My neuroticism,
Your apathy,
and too much fucking opera.

Work Place

Forms,
Forms,
Misery and Forms!
Lunch breaks and tea breaks,
and Forms!
Petty motivations,
bad communications.
Gossips,
and meetings,
and Forms!
Forms about forms,
about forms about forms,
about forms about forms about fines.
Women's thinking,
baby photos,
tea mugs.
Forms!

The Clockwork Girl

She is the clockwork girl.
Crafted by your imagination.
Every morning round about 3
A creature comes to turn her key,
And she springs into action.
Her metal limbs go click,
Her little heart goes tick,
Her springs recoil
Her boiler boils.
The clockwork girl is ready for clock work.

All about the day she goes about the day.
Sings, eats, speaks and makes you feel.
Pours, digs, bends Iron bars for you.
She does not feel or need to heal,
She does not hear the things you say,
She does not sleep, she does not pray.

The shadows lengthen,
The key turns slower,
Slower,
Slower,
But in the moments before the end,
Before the program runs again,
She dreams.

Old Mc Donald

Old Mc Donald had a wolf,
ee I ee I O,
Attack dog trained and bullet proof,
ee I ee I O,
With big growl-growl and a disembowel,
Hear a hippy, there a copper, everywhere a nosy neighbour,
Old Mc Donald had a wolf,
ee I ee I O.

Old Mc Donalds deep in debt
ee I ee I O,
That's why he keeps his lovely pet,
ee I ee I O,
To guard his crop and scare the cops,
If he doesn’t pull the deal he'll lose the lot,
ee I ee I O.

Old Mc Donald's farming scag,
ee I ee I O,
High quality stuff good for a drag,
ee I ee I O,
There’s a field of the stuff but it's never enough,
Debt collectors, bills for payment, every where a dodgy dealer,
Old Mc Donald's farming scag,
ee I ee I O.

Proper

If I were a proper person,
I would work toward my goals,
my record would be clean,
and I'd know who saved my soul.

If I were a proper person,
I would make all the right jokes,
my teeth would be a perfect white,
and my life would be full of hope.

But sometimes I am sad, sad, sad.
If I were me, you'd think me mad.
I am a funny, bunny.

A Love Poem

Love Love Love,
Love Love.
A knowing look.
He strings up his mandolin.
She talks in metaphore.
A balcony scene,

a moonlit stroll,
a secret rondevoue by the fountain,
and intamacy in the ornamental maze.
Then the geleous brother,
or mother,
or aunt.
A secret coat pocket letter,
several disguises,
perhaps a lost slipper,
or a fan.
Love Love Love,
then some conflict,
and perhaps a tragic ending.
Shakespear could not have done better himself.

Benjamin

Benjamin Benjamin!
A common enough name but then,
Your wit.
Your fearlessness.
Your Childishness.
Your mean-streak.
The way you get sunburnt quicker than most.
Your humming-bird metabolism.
What a good friend to have,
when defrosting a refrigerator.

Numb

Some people died today.
In a tragic way.
But what do I know of it.
I sit here and eat fruit,
and watch the news,
and a lady with bottle blonde hair says,
"The destruction was total"
and
"The poor worst affected".
Then the topic changes to sports.
Australia's rigamortis.

Tsunami

Meters tall the water wall rose,
and swallowed up many souls.
And dumped the silt upon the roads,
where now the wild flowers grow.

Old Friends

You pass through my mind quietly like a frightened beast.
Like a spider web caught on my sleeve.
Like a breeze passing silently through the crack in the window pane.
Like the tropical down pour on a thick humid evening.
You are all silence,
and sadness,
and peace.

Dream Man

There he is, the man of my dreams!
Sleek! Like a panther,
or a cabbage.
Impossibly romantic!
With a violin in one hand,
and a candle in the other,
and a paint brush in the other,
and a bunch of roses held in place by Velcro.

The Expert

I'm an expert on peace and conflict.
Conflicting peace,
peaceful conflict,
conflicting peaceful conflict,
peaceful conflicting conflict,
The conflicting peaceful conflicts of peace in times of conflict.
I did my thesis at oxford
and I'm very well paid.

Marble Eyes

Good Friend!
Your eyes are like marbles in your head.
Cats eye marbles.
Round,
smooth,
and forever rolling in circles.
I think perhaps that part is my fault.

Be Still

Be still.
Don't sneeze,
leave,
or tease.
Just be still.
Let the traffic drive noisily past,
Let the neighbors dog bark.
Ignore the sun which is shining into your eyes,
and be still.

Roses are Red

Roses are red,
Violets are violet.

Death of a muse

You should have come to my party
but you went to the gorge instead.
And so, while you were driving home
you swerved and now you’re dead.

12/6/04

Urban

A cotton-wool prefab existence is great
No room for love and no room for hate
And the flowers of spring don’t cause you to stress
As you pull down the blinds while you dress to impress
The linoleum sparkles, the counter top shines
As you pop out the cork from your bottle of wine
And the dinner guests chat as the chocolate’s passed round
The apartments are snug on this side of town

The Spell Checker

I know it's going to do it soon
I never get it right,
and it under lines one of the words
in the poems that I type.
Which one will it be, thinks I
the one that I get wrong,
I never really know for sure
so I'd better just press on.
When it does I'll have to stop,
and write the word again,
the bloody Microsoft spell checker
is an ever present pain.
Maybe if I keep it simple,
try not to be too fancy,
I could write about my cat or dog
or my aged aunt Nancy.
Wow I'm really doing well so far!
Not a singe word is wrong,
maybe I can start to do
some words that are long.
Some reporters with great verisimilitude
went for a walk one day,
but in their post-modernistic residual perceptions,
they found they'd lost their way.
Well that went well and I'm nearly done
with out a single mistake,
and once I've finished this poem
I can take a coffee break.
THE NED.

Like me

I'm so tired of being me,
may I be you for a little while?
I'm so tired of trying to smile,
Can I run and hide for a little while?
I'm so tired of waging war,
I'm so tired of feeling small,
Crush it up, destroy it all!
But where would I be then?

All Nighter

Angel craft over head
slowly wakes me up from bed.
Check my looks,
Check my books.
Now I'm on my way.

Little green froggy girls,
slowly walking to their study,
none of them in a hurry.
Their really quite like me.

Me with my pallid eyes,
grey slippery pallid eyes,
bloby assignment computer eyes.
Perhaps their not like me.

Desktop Girl

Gazing at me with her eyebrows arched down,
Hair hanging straight,
Muscles Rippling,
Guns Loaded,
My desktop girl is set.
Ready to pounce on file invaders,
hard drive bandits,
and naughty computer-repair men.

Poem from a study carrel

TITS ARE AWESOME!
PB loves KB
Think I’m getting bored to death soon
Toro tomatsuppe
SPROOSE MOOSE
I love fucking
Many are called but few are chosen
John Tynan loves Ashleigh Stitt
God is awesome
EAT A DICK
IS THIS A PORN CARREL?
Jesus loves you and me
Smoke my cock bitch
No matter what
I hate Aussie girls
some of them are friendly
I love you BB
Same shit, different day.

Coming Down

I'm searching for the future,
I'm searching for a past,
I run as fast as I can run,
but I'm always coming last.
I'm sucking up the acid,
I live upon bought time.
I'm searching for a grain of truth,
but there's nothing left to find.
I'm wandering the wasteland,
a lone wolf on the prowl
There is no good inside me
Not never not now.
I'm cutting all the corners,
I'm turning back the clocks,
I'm burning out the break pads
So there's no way left to stop.
I'm a heart attack victim
in the making, though I’m young.
I'm slowly picking up my speed
like a lame man on the run.
Don't talk to me about yourself,
Don't talk to me at all
I'm making up my own mind
Even if I have to crawl.
I'm climbing up the lampposts,
riding on back beats,
flying round the planets
and falling off my feet.
I'm running out of patients
and I'm running out of lies.
Reflections of reality are swimming in my eyes.
and if reality would shake shake shake my shaking hand
Then my dreaming falls to pieces and my body turns to sand.

Clikety Clack

Clikety Clack along the track,
Clikety Clack, Clikety Clack,
Where I go I shan't come back,
Clikety Clikety Clack.
Restless Reckless Ruthless Steel.
Turn'e Winding Grinding Wheel.
Clikety Clack along the track,
I shan't come back.

Liar

Liar! Liar! pants on fire,
Lying to my very face,
You told me I'd won the race,
you told me I came first place,
You told me to my very face,
And then you took the trophy back.

Gone 10 seconds

Your gone 10 seconds,
I'm falling off the edge of my seat.
Jumping at the smallest sound,
writing bad poetry,
drinking hard liquor,
chewing my nails,
subverting the status quos,
breaking my wrist watch,
arguing,
brawling,
fighting,
screaming.
Oh thank god your back!

Sex

sex,
sex,
s,
e,
x,
A rather messy steamy state.
The only reason men create,
the only reason people date,
the only reason girls are late,
even cauliflowers mate.
But mostly it sells cars.

S11

A building fell on some people,
A building fell on some people,
A plane fell on some people,
Some people fell with a plane.
Who is to blame?
Who is to gain?

Beach

I run bare foot,
down to the sea edge,
I can't swim,
So I sit on the sand.
Sand castle very high,
I brought my kite to fly,
Sea gull scream and cry,
and so do I.
Sand in my togs now,
sand in my hand,
sand in my sandwiches,
sand upon sand.
And no site of land,
and the sea side band,
has started to stand,
paking up trombones,
night rolls in.

Pup

What ball of woolly nonsense is this,
sniffing my foot.
What black eyed lap thing,
more loved than the humans around it.
If not scampering on legs to short to be called legs,
then toted by a fashionable but broody young lady.
A self serving tangle of white fluff.
Sit!
nothing.
Stay!
nothing.
Roll over!
nothing!
Shake hands!
NOTHING!
perhaps it catches rats?

Nee

Went for jog,
Watch the time,
Kayja say SLOW DOWN!
kayja wise!
Silly nee!
Silly me!
Silly nee on me!
Silly clicky nee on me,
when surgery no longer free.

Recycle

I am made of recycled materials.
I contain no preservatives or colorings.
No animals were harmed during the construction of me.
I should be taken twice daily with meals.
I fit a wide range of dispensers.
I come in many colors and sizes.
Batteries are included.
I am gluten free,
lactose free,
egg free,
and contain no animal products.
I may contain traces of nuts.
I buff to a high gloss shine.
I take 2-3 hours to dry.
I should be baked on high.
I am water proof and air tight.
I should be disposed of thoughtfully.

Mary had a motorbike

Mary has a motorbike
A trailer and a gun.
And every where that Mary goes,
she has a lot of fun.
Mary ate her little lamb.
It followed her around too much.

Here They Come

here they come,
case in hand,
shirt tucked in,
face set to "frown",
tie smoothed down,
socks pulled up,
these are the people who do; "things",
pass clipped on,
hair smoothed back
OUT OF THE WAY!
diary planned!
these are the people who,
get.
things.
done.
maybe they'll do me one day.

Your Song

play, play, play your song for me.
And I will Follow.
To the ends of the dirt and the watery sky,
past the moons of Jupiter.
Beyond the place where the flesh will die,
home to the rings of the radient sun,
near to the place where the dance begun,
back to the time when our song was sung,
in the corner of the cyclones eye.
Where all the things that have an end
will finally begin again.

Aubergines and Red Berets

Aubergines and red berets my psychiatric doctor says,
are the first sign of madness.
Word salad is the second.
I said I don’t like salad,
unless it has a dressing.
Preferably of mayonnaise,
not aubergines or any type of oil.
My dearest friendly friend he says his psychiatric doctor pays,
to have his name and letters blazed on calendars with pictures of puppy dogs.
He gave him one last Tuesday.
As a present I belive,
whilst asking him to leave,
his office.
So he then tipped his red beret,
(and put his aubergine away),
and gave the nurse a check to pay,
for his psychiatric session.

Bic

click
unclick
click
unclick
I flick my bic.

Omnivore

I'm being chased by a hungry looking omnivore
teeth hanging out always there coming back for more
I'm being watched by a hungry looking omnivore
claws stretching out wanting me coming back for more
oh raptor
oh raptor
the finest of the dinosaur
omnivore
omnivore
i'm being stalked by a hungry hungry omnivore
it wants my bones, want my nose, wants to eat it all
no time to cook, just grab me and eat me raw
i'm being stalked by a hungry omnivore
oh raptor
oh raptor
coming back for more
omnivore
il' dig a pit, set a trap, but its useless
it has these fangs, gets these pangs, i am toothless
oh baby
oh baby
oh baby
give me a gun
lets have some fun
dinosaur for dinner
my ass is looking thinner
with vodka melon spinner
the lights are getting dimmer
lets pull the fucking trigger
dinosaur is yum
now i'm getting fat on a hungry hungry omnivore
shot in the back, its so tasty, can i have some more
backed with potatoes, tomatoes, and green paw paw
oh omnivore
omnivore

Sponge cake and rock

You’re like a sponge cake,
and I’m like a rock,
you’re light and fluffy, people like you a lot,
I get tied to peoples necks, when they drown,
but sponge cakes get eaten, whilst rocks hang around.