There is currently a war Taking place in my head I do not recognise either side And no peace talks are planned     Outlaw

Now even on Sundays the beach is deserted  Still we will stare out to sea   This is a line from a Fellini movie I cannot remember its title Yet I had arranged a showing At the Cinema on the Beach   But nobody attended As the five young men had left the town  

Simon did I see you participating in the Boxing Day Swim Yes But you cannot swim and are terrified of water I learnt to swim last summer Do you swim well No So why did you participate in the charity swim I wanted to see Mimsy K in her bikini Why did you not spectate […]

I will always be your lover Frank and Angela were lying on rough blanket in the room Where the old photocopiers came to die There were three of these machines against the far wall Apart from that the room was bare On its only shelf there were three bottles of powder half full And a […]

Madness Sadness Badness   I am mad but at the same time sad and I am definitely bad   NoMad

At present I am suffering from a minor but uncomfortable virus Which consists of a cold and various aches and pains It is making me very tetchy and I feel that I want to take my misfortune out on something or someone It seems to me that when I was younger there were not so […]

on colder days this feeling can be almost impossible but when the sun is warm and free there is not a better feeling than standing naked in the sea         Purple 2022

I have a friend Who lives in St Ives She is an artist Who likes to sculpt A number of her works Litter my garden Mostly nudes And the occasional cat She is more famous For her colourful abstracts But her figurative paintings Are much admired I would have liked To have been an artist […]

I have read that the volcano Vesuvius suffered six paroxysmal eruptions in the nineteenth century In 1839 1850 1855 1861 1868 and 1872 I believe the next one was in 1906 What has this got to do with the Brompton Road Nelly Nothing at all Then why bring it up Do you know that the […]

Rock rock rock and sand was all that Virginia could see She had expected little else as she looked into the vast waters beneath her station It was likely that this sea stretched all the way to America and maybe beyond   Virginia was wearing cotton skirt with pleasing blue and grey stripes and a […]