Dust Blue Dust White Dust Red Dust   I still retain your memorable dust On my rough climbing boots   Dear Marianne

I woke up this mornings dawning And looked out of my window As it was snowing Snowing Snow is quite rare In coastal towns As the sea Does not trust the snow To settle quietly Without causing unhappiness

Some people think that I am a bitch But I am nothing of the sort I just know my own mind Unlike other bitches   Switch Bitch I am a bitch Just a bitch Nothing else My favourite bitch In history was Joan of Arc I will not reveal The reason why As I do […]

I was lying in bed bed with my cousin Morag An unusual arrangement But this was only a dream And unusual things happen in dreams The harsh henry winds were battering the frail windows Of the cottage but they were quite regular And not to be feared as some northerly winds are Later in the […]

The houses on the avenue Were huddled together As if for warmth   I walking towards the beach Enjoying the darkness Of the fading day      

the wind was so cruel as it ice whipped the sea spray against my face

                An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way An artist says a hard thing in a simple way Charles Bukowski

Cold canoes in a frozen harbour If I say that I am a cunt then it will save you reading my poems I would ring him but he is dead I love Jesus more than life itself but he does not answer my calls Any cunt can write poetry but it takes a genius to […]

I arrived at the airport in the pouring rain But you were no longer there Even though your plane had landed I waited for an hour under the blue neon lights And began to wonder if you had existed at all The taxis started to grow thinner And the airport was fading slowly into sleep […]

I believe my wife is being unfaithful to me It is hard to take but I forgive her As all beauty must be forgiven But I am going to visit her dreaded lover Dressed as a orange With the hope that he will fade away My birth name is Michael Thomas But from tonight I […]