Artificial Sweetheart
I grew up in secret, so no one noticed
Even now I’m in a mist
Such earthly delights
Enclosed in my fist
Artificial sweetheart
My temporary muse
I could do anything with you
And never feel real
I see what’s going on out there
Walls close in, I don’t care
She’ll not get a whiff
Of my raging despair
Artificial sweetheart
Most beautified deceiver
Can’t even see me drool
Pickled in fake forever
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Breadhead
What’s worse than a breadhead
Stumbling down the stairs?
You’re a breadhead, baby
A breadhead, y’ hear, it’s said
Look it up – and learn the cause
For my disdain
You’re a breadhead baby, in a comfort zone
A safe landing masquerading as home
Pyramid eye and the scheme
Sucking up trinkets in your mind
Breadheads dream of dough
Fluffing their pillows, beware:
Breadheads congregate, braining the…
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Red Hot Steam
Red steaming hot face
Boiling red swirl inside a head
My, how it’s heating
Beyond memories of tomorrow
As long as the doorpost holds me
I will stand
As long as the floor moulds me
I will sit
Now the tube warm flush
Flares up the lift shaft
It’s like central heating
And you go rushing by
Hot on the heels of patience
You toss me a coin
Hubbie’s waiting for you outside
Your car will go flying by
As…
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Silvertown Cradle
Two sad eyes are watching me
The light of this candle gives out
What more will you take
Than a handful of dirt and a heapful of hate?
In your Silvertown cradle, who calls the shots?
In your Silvertown cradle, who’ll stop the rots?
Here they are, just like they were
The swamp hands won’t let me go
In these wastelands of my past
You get insults instead of love
In your Silvertown cradle, who calls…
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True Loves
True loves stay together
Light the day and walk forever
True loves stay together
Fight the way and shake the tether
Please let love decree
There’s to be no never never
Please let love decree
That its bonds you’ll never sever
When our time is free
The milk of us will never sour
When our time is free
Happy, so happy, we’ll live our hour
There’s no such thing as variety
There’s only one love to find…
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Heading Out
A dewy dawn in springWinter’s heart on the rock has foundered …Awake! For all of nature’s promiseIs still unbroken
All the joys it now bringsbead the cobwebbed dream outspoken
I’m going to go outI don’t know whyBut fortune is mine to eatAll across that moonAnd all, all across me
Thinking without realisingI’ve been dreaming
And now it’s gonna happenFor free! . . .Tomorrow, crawl along the…
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Piece to Piece
Piece by piecethe world picks at my heartLimb from limbthey tear me apart
Ashes to ashesthe building falls to earthPlain to seemy secret fear of death
Erase an angel’s type of dyeschool me to pass byLet me in on a secret perspireand split the ball needing time
Brick by brickleads the road through my heartOut on a limbthat drives us both apart
Dust to dustthe rubble forms a wifeThat you can…
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Black Cat Blues
I found a ropeWhat shall I catch?Along the white line, in the middle of the roadA lasso to hunt up a match
I stumbled on a dying catStretched out glistening, oily blackTorn down my side, I bend downHear the hum of life, soft departing cracks . . .
Fall into you, fly into meHow can we be where we are?Fly with you, feel with meHow come we are what we see?
Yearning, and pulling me overLike a hair…
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Inside You
Inside youI see myself, yes I doWe got an awful lot we shareDays without you I cannot bear
Sometimeswell, life it gets me downAs long as you’re here aliveI don’t count the days going by
Just this dayyou’ve gone right out of townBut you’ll be back to hear me say“Kiss my lips, don’t make a sound”
I just love itWhen you smile your smileTakes the words right out of my mouthAin’t this what life’s…
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Face to Face
In the darkest vanity you see yourselfClutched up and anxiousThough you slept beforeYou couldn’t notice what you were shownStruggling to breathe before you were born
The colours wash up your riverSweeping out your inner messFace to face I see youIn the starlight heavenShuddering, silently intentA world full of fabulousness
Wow, what we’re looking atHas beaten us calmly to restYour eyes twinkle…
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My Ageless Wonderfriend
In all the vastness of this worldAnd the terrifying expanse of timeWill there be one, how could there beTo live and marvel and let it be?Yet sincere belief has made it soEternity has you in an envelope:Out of all time, charmed in wizardryProve my existence in this world
Raise me, childRaise me to the Saviour of your graceSay where I could be your playthingAnd hold me in the pureness of intent
I…
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The Outdoor Room
We were terrified in a large outdoor roomRunning with chaos and distractionCold and hot and wet and lowTo hide we could not fit behind the treeAs the leaves they dropped to melt like acid
Our hearts went pounding through our headsA screeching howl from deepest earthA signal came flashing in our eyesAll was over and lost
The voices stemmed from an early ageWere they easy to keep track ofDripped…
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Conversations with Anaїs Nin
Conversations with Anaїs Nin
I was waking up and rising gently to the surfaceThanks to you, subconscious guru, my sudden loss of energy gave meA shadowplay on the radio – some said it was the Silver GuruIn the Bengal hills, the old black pit having opened its arms againShowing that power would soon seep from the CompanyAnd the British Army and last days of the Raj, provoking fear in the infantryThat it marked the threat of…
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The Children Are Watching
The Children Are Watching
Letter to an MP:“You are a cruel person, whose views should be disregarded.You wish harm to humanity.”
It is your duty to go shopping, or so I was toldIt is your duty to the future . . .And so I did as I was told.Though I hadn’t any moneyI had to find a way of scamming some:Permission to live in a worldThat did not want what I had to say
The children are watching, not far off in the…
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The Great Big Sell-off
The Great Big Sell-off
Losing weight so we can go shopping again . . .
NARRATORCome on a spree with me, in the shopping sanctuaryWe’ll buy what no one needsEvery pound we’ve not got, we’ll spend on luxuriesAnd shitty deals to shut us up
CHORUSIn the Great Big Sell-off
In the stink of afternoon, a baboon in his steel boxOffers to break my fingers off, as I curse him as I cross ~He works for the masters of…
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The Drones Are Coming
The Drones Are Coming
Coming soon to a street near you . . .Here they come, sweeping the airThe drones have got round to our areaWhile you were sleeping or watching pornThe last to be informedSinging, “Give it to me, give it to me / It’s mine, I want it!”Well, you know what?The drones have come to our part of townSqueezing up fences, breaking us downWeaving webs around our familyWatchful eyes far away
We are to be…
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The Hunt
So you chased me downTill you saw me bleedThe good things I saidWere left unfound
My creative visionsWill last a lifetimeI’ve begun a map of the swampI’ve climbed trees in disbelief
The harder it getsBarbed wire bibleMachine men like to think they dreamGhost-copied souls, as required
It’s not clear they want youBut they will chase you downTill they see you bleedThe hunt is coming…
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