Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Reform Reform!


 Reform Reform!

 

Return of the Kneecap Brigade

What’s been happening in the North, where they’ve got folks wrapping themselves in the Union Jack and acting in ways few Brits – ancient or modern - could identify with, is your typical invasion scare. The whole island suffers from these cultural race-religion obsessions and compulsions, and have done so since Oliver Cromwell was a lad. Wasn’t it a century after their political independence was cast aside, when, with Home Rule in the very palms of their hands, they diddled themselves out of it - for what exactly? The likes of Parnell, Childers, Collins and countless others destroyed because of anarchy in the soul: adhering to and simultaneously denying the Holy Truth. While only a toppling of the god-almighty British Empire would satisfy some, all the others wanted was a bit of peace and quiet on a Sunday afternoon, three pints of black’n’tan, no shame or the fear of going to bed in fear that men of the night would come and put a bullet in the back of their wooly heads.

 

Not exactly Biafra (Who wanna buy a fly?)

Kemi Badenoch had me in a half-Nelson for a good hour the other day. God, She was irresistible and I had to stop what I was doing and look Her up good & proper. People like That can are annoying - persuasive, not because of what They say – in Her case, She doesn’t have a thing besides a playground told-you-so rhetoric quite devoid of serious content – except for what She represents: a load of owl colonial booing & cooing coming home to roost. It wasn’t until I read what She said about not identifying with Nigerian that I was able to free myself from Her hideous alure. Gimme James Cleverly every time (I think he’s well out of it. Too long in the Idris Elba to play James Bond, anyway). Madame Kemi said She sides with the Yoruba (Her people) and not those of the North, like the extremists of Boko Haram: Muslim militants She describes as Their ethic enemies (doesn’t even have a proper collective name for them). Yes, She is in fact a good old fashioned ethno-cultural warrior, pretty much in the Thatcherite pseudo feminist mold. Phew! With Her it’s back to Us and Them. Let’s just write Liverpool off kinda thing. Too much Irish.

 

No State Solution

Yep, it’s official: you gotta give it up. I don’t mean the struggle. I mean this capitulation to racist norms of homogeneity. If the population hits ten billion - which could be its tipping point: upwards to a hundred or downwards to Human Zero, a sort of Malthusian Snakes & Ladders takes over. I mean, is Nigel going to pack in the fags and booze? Would Popeye & Olive vote for him if he did? He’d be a laughing stock. Sooner turn into a yoga guru or an agony ant. Stamp him out now, ye chicken livered wets. Stick a Welsh dragon in the corner of the Union Flag and turn half the reds green. Britannia Waives The Rules. Let’s have a trio of AI bots on the throne and be done with it.

 

Phone Sex on Mars

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Art of the Trump

New edition from the wise owl peanut, hardly necessary to reiterate, but there you go at only two billion bucks the pop. Contains a full pack of yer actual Trump Cards, no dice and a signed autograph.

 

Mercy

Everyone knows how to grovel in the mire when their last ditch is looming but few will face up to the inevitable with a crib sheet and a spot of role play under their belt. Religion is A-OK as far as it goes, and those who carry the barrack room book of words might know what to say on the great day. But buggars must, as the owl says, be losers. Take it from the backside of one who knows the horse’s laugh when they hear it. Not so much words as the sound a cement mixer makes emptying out.

 

Zonk Pifflesquaite is a banana that lives on two moons during three wars, when their nose falls off.


Not on Your Knees!


Wednesday, 4 June 2025

wise to the word



robots to the rescue

 

Sappho loved the girl to bits

but Byzantines had her scrolls

banned along with Alcaeus

hundreds of hits

 

deemed unsuitable for peeps

tribute acts had kept them on

like a whole millennium

then come the sheep

 

precious icon mashers ate

literature as well as art

hope it gave them piles & heart

burn such a debt

 

still the charcoal rolls of old

Herculaneum are due

might reveal a vol or two

worth more than gold

 

set them robots at it trawl

microscopic 3D scans

piece together Sappho’s plans

AI is all




Zion

 

starving peeps that faced by tank

loads of well-fed soldiers thank

death they cry while tasting lead

daily as bread

 

Jesus had invoked their cause

though he came to banish wars

Folks put less demanding plans

blood on Their hands

 

turn the Gentiles into slaves

all this land shall be Israel’s

gather them with promises

Simony says

 

ye shall live eternally

give but your life to be free

martyrdom is just a prick

healthy or sick

 

fling the portals open wide

welcome lambs to genocide

big or lesser shares who cares

answer their prayers




stupidly famous

 

geezer on the point of ironing

who with no particular excuse

just decides the time has come to choose

they would be king

 

is delusional perhaps they say

everyday folks ain’t got no recourse

should accept theirs as better or worse

rich for a day

 

Mr Warhol put it well enough

keep the suckers strung on tenterhooks

sell ’em the dream the ticket the looks

time is the stuff

 

far too many jostling cross this Earth

short of culling most of them for starts

or selectives topping breeding charts

talking of berth

 

like a sack of nonsense keep in mind

nothing has more right to fish this land

mammals birds nor insects understand

bandwagon style


Not a bit late, what!





Thursday, 1 May 2025

collected litter a chore



by Philip Lee


NO RELIABLE INTELLIGENCE IS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE & MAINTENANCE OF THESE PRODUCTS

 

After getting chucked out of drama school¹, this earlier version of Philip Lee – in a gesture of inverse snobbery – became a street sweeper for Westminster City Council. Oxford Circus being the centre of their patch, in the following months the subject could be seen wearing hobnail boots pushing a wheelbarrow through streets broad and narrow, crying Mind Yer Backs. It was a truly idyllic time. One day, a rich American tourist stopped, wiped away a tear and gave the sweeper a pound. Another, some poor American dropout asked if  like the fellas on the dust in NYC – the job paid a huge salary. The sweeper responded to both these philanthropic outpourings with alacrity. And ever the performer with toes dipped in character, parked the barrow down a back alley to meet up with Riddy for Afternoon Tea in a Regent Street cafĂ© - those dirty great working gloves plonked on the table between scones and clotted cream bowl. The year was 1977, when honest jobs could still be found by the working class. But the spectre of Margaret Thatcher was looming; within a few years of economic sturm und drang, even the lowliest forms of employment would be fought over like scraps cast from the banquets of yuppies making their fortunes off the backs of factory closures and export of manufacturing jobs to the Far East.

 

Click to recycle chapbooks:


unromantic ballads


less romantic ballads


rheumatic ballads

Camp Reluctance


little snides on the side


propaganda porpoises


2 lefts don't make a right

formal hysterics

dismal stories

It's >That Man Again


Or if a saving of forests is insisted on, go digital with the really cheapo Kindle eds.

 

ALL DATA IS WASHED IN SPRING WATER, SUN DRIED, SMEARED WITH ORGANIC GARDEN WASTE AND SERVED WHOLE.

 

¹Thanks for that Susanna, also credit is due to Gary, the only purchase I ever got out of a skateboard was using my youngest’s to shift a bag of cement when the garden wheelbarrow was full of something else. 


Not Waste!




Tuesday, 1 April 2025

back to the furniture II

 

Huw Prys

 

yeh the Welshie had

plenty chances bad

acting apart

 

sold their country down

England’s rivers clown

property mart

 

bought a castle flogged

horsemeat corpsed & clogged

scenes to an art

 

but the head was screwed

on committed crude

dealings by heart

 

stole their very show

from the dumbstruck rode

off with the tart

 

 

 

other side story

 

robotoids infesting planet X

spinning dizzily all day are blind

sided by their moon’s infernal light

crazy for sex

 

consciousness has rarely been achieved

just occasionally insight rules

backwards levitating arrant fools

sating a need

 

of their works a jealous god or gods

some confusion reigns in image made

like themselves demanding stones be laid

over the odds

 

such their love of inorganic wars

caused by pointless morganatic blues

upgrade packages unsold refuse

relative clause

 

at the heart of which intelligence

stars in rather minor speechless roles

caught between a pair of sinking holes

Nonsense & Sense


 

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old world orders

 

walking talking stalking bots

keeps the kiddies off the street

find themselves a space to meet

typing of knots

 

this no time for cursing lots

everyman’s got two left feet

family values three piece suite

noodles in pots

 

should your offspring get the hots

for a human’s patter beat

seven types of indiscreet

out of their spots

 

holidays fly Aeroflot’s

Vladivostok phishing fleet

caviar & vodka neat

have’n have gots

 

Heming’s way with poker dots

what complaints an empty sheet

next it’s Cuba’s standard treat

calling of shots

 

 

 

name check

 

Ruby Winebelch Sir

Roger D’Arse M’Lord

Ladyman & Dame

Lispeth the Bored

 

Colonel Whatshisface

Judith Pennylane

Howzyerfather Grace

Kelly Zinsane

 

Norris Chucklebuck

Ostrich Featherstone

Donald Zinthemuck

Spiceboise R Onn

 

Bwitish Confiscate

Effy Shufflefreight

Strootha Oilystate

Coffit N’Skate

 

Andy Andyman

Friday Girl Azknown

As McGill & Stan

Laura Le Groan

 

 

 

 

flip-flops

 

pull yourselves together chaps

ain’t no animation this

tragi-commie campness it’s

loose at the flaps

 

get a lug-hole for a conch

science by another name

every episode’s the same

lines without punch

 

hug bipolar bears release

cancelled scripts their plots unhatched

coupla arthouse tropes that crashed

wonders will cease

 

Series Two’s on hold I swear

grant us some intelligence

Tuesday’s on the phone to Pence

night of the mare

 

camera lights & action now

ladies let’s be having you

in the can by afternoon

bull from a cow 

 

 


sponsored lines

 

chocolate war on Mars is one

unintended consequence

rain in Spain another Swan

Vestas make sense

 

short & sharp but seven times

more efficient tryna shed

light on compensation crimes

goes to your head

 

smoking Lucky Strike man blow

rings round misty morning gloom

furthermore the datas show

adds to a room

 

full of scientists who choose

Gillette's new festival shave

lotion to old Orleans blues

digital Babe

 

yes Amerikar the brave

Gattling’s gun is getting on

buy today remember save

millions dot con

 

 

 

straight camp quotes

 

I

bully for us

took a quake to shut them up

nothing bout that other stuff

all I gotta say is puss

 

II

Stalin not a patch

on Shostakovich

Putin spends their watch

scratching a bitch

 

III

centrifugal farce

centripetal curse

what we wanna learn

is which is worse

 

IV

passing notes in class

meets at shopping malls

then it comes to pass

lavatory walls

 

V

whisper this you dragon’s tooth

merchants sow discord amongst

Caesar’s generals singing songs

throttles the truth

 

 

 

decisions decisions

 

if you pull that trigger guy

though unleashing death on kids

innocent or guilty it’s

you that will die

 

stands to reason take the camps

concentrated genocide

killed their dream can’t be denied

suicide champs

 

shaken by the Luger hand

cyanide seemed rather good

twenty secs to freeze their blood

perfectly grand

 

put another way your death

should you cheat the gallows live

out your days in Tel Aviv

hangs on a breath

 

every day & night you’ll be

justifying what you did

then to someone else’s kid

never be free

 

 

 

back to the furniture II

 

Jesus wept O god they plain forsaken him

he whose only goal in life has been to play

on the wing for Liverpool FC and win

cups not the blame game

 

all was going well he’d overcome those doubts

faced his demons & the sceptics on the Kop

played the season of his life defied the touts

even survived Klopp

 

then was crucified by Pontious Pilate who

sent him off that derby game the video

showed no foul indeed the crowd began to boo

really a poor show

 

handed down a three match ban then injury

meant he missed his chance to prove what he could do

loaned to Tranmere Rovers with no transfer fee

severance or renew

 

back he went to Palestine his father’s work

shop as prodigal a son as you could hope

for said Dad I tried my best the old man cursed

anyroad don’t mope


Not Going Backwards Innit!