Yet more pottery

Another poem. I had a dream where I was walking down the street, and everyone starting falling apart around me. I’m pretty sure that is where this particular poem has come from.

Marching along its concrete guts

rags fluttering on flagpoles of rib

bones jut through a threadbare coat

a parade of rotten clothes hangers

peeling off a nose, a cheek, a tongue

a bouncing eye and tar-streaked lung

split lips bleed smiles

as unhinged jawbones swing

a morning here in it’s belly

eaten away in tightened bowels

we sing our songs of waste and wasted

and dissolve

Quick Pottery

I haven’t written anything here for a bit, so I wrote this a few minutes ago to put up. That’s about it, really.

Just dirt falling from the spade

circled by grave robbers, bone diggers

his well-lit home far away

above a curious coffin, a voice sniggers

‘We all need help, friend’

disappear amongst the aimless streetlights

haunting his familiar doors

he runs his fingers over the night

to find it won’t speak, not once, not anymore