Rickety rails outside.
Coats steam inside.

Sucking doors divulge passengers
to deluged platforms.
I smile confident and assured
that this is not my stop.

Then I saw hail begin to fall.
Not yet on me,
but hanging in the sky
like a daylight borealis.

I sought refuge.
As the storm bore down
for it’s twenty minute
wild abandon,
I hid,
cowered under a tree.
A lime.

You know when you’ve made a mistake,
But only when that mistake is too late.

You know when you make a mistake,
that changing anything changes nothing.

So…
I stood.
protected from hail,
but destined to grow sticky,
as the rain mix washed down through the tree
And deposited it’s load on me.

After storm had abated,
I cycled home,
some what belated.
And made a mental note.

To self.
Blast,
I stood under a lime.
Don’t do that next time.

• I was somewhere,
• Doing something,
• Thought about something else
• Decided not to

They have a certain “je ne say que” . Indeed.

The need is here;
to occupy the mind,
or to burn the wax,
at both ends..
The need is here.

The need. The need.
An obscure thing,
not easy to grasp,
or to see.
The need.

The need.
A desire to do…
something.
To be something.
a formless need.

It sits at the back,
gnawing away;
‘do something’…
but WHAT,
to satisfy the need?

Ever stayed up too late?
Drunk coffee when you need to sleep?
Eaten too much chocolate after nine?
The need is waiting…
The Need.

Salvage Song
(or The Housewifes Dream)

My Sauceopans have all been surrendered,
The tepot is gone from the hob,
The colander’s leaving the cabbabge
for a very much different job.
So now when I hear on the wireless
Of Hurricanes showing their mettle,
I see in a vision before me
A Dornier chased by a Kettle.

It could well be a reference to wartime shortages, (after a quick google on the matter) but it still sounds bizarre, and has lightened the last half hour of slow, slow, borrowing trade.

Brim pulled low,
causes
head tilted high
makes
nostrils peak snobbily

A new class
whose values are anti,
rock/grunge/skateboard,
And nothing else will do.