Come friendly bombers, and take out my carriage;
I can't leave my nation except by marriage
It doesn't want me and I don't want it
We're up to our necks, drowning in shit
There's fascism waking and democracy's sick
Just blow up my tube, I beg you - and quick.

Things I have done in addition to suicidal ideation and screaming and unfollowing people ( Read more... )

poetry

the last runner

(I've been looking at a cyberpunk blog on tumblr and that happened. I don't really have an opinion on the Orlando shooting. I stopped having opinions on - or indeed feelings about - both homophobic attacks and mass shootings quite a long time ago. Feel rather fatalistic at the moment anyway).

Poetry

old world genealogy

Any time my dreams would like to stop being horrific kidnappings of my consciousness awash with guilt and misery and hell I would be fully on board with this decision.

Poetry

Only you can prevent

As noted elsewhere, being BLINDINGLY FURIOUS is a good way to make poetry happen. Best we don't ask why.

LAST NIGHT, right, I went to THE BBC and watched two hours of Natalie Haynes and guests making jokes about Ovid and Agrippina the Younger and it was GREAT. The audience were disgusting I have never heard so many ( Read more... )

Poetry

woodsman

Yes yes alright I am sensitive poet boy, fine.

Insanity check1. Have perfectly civil conversation with man selling mushrooms. Demonstrate vague knowledge of some mushrooms ( Read more... )

poetry

tourist tout

poetry

the penitent wife
ghosts of those not yet born

sick, eywell, definitely ill. but in the grand scheme of things my mental health matters more to me than my physical health, so i cannot stay in bed or indoors. went out today and totally failed to look for george's t-shirt (i have the rest of this week); successfully got more of the gf's ( Read more... )

This pretty much just appeared fully-formed in my head last night. I feel very "I put on cat" at the moment.

Poetry

appetites

Update update ( Read more... )

It's melodramatic to refer to changes you make to yourself as "leaving a burning building" but I don't know how else to express how much it's not actually possible to go BACK, even when going forward is, as it currently is, strewn with obstacles which are repetitive and expensive and shitty. I'd say "insurmountable" but they're clearly not. They're ( Read more... )