DRIFTWOOD GIRL immense the seagnarly the surgeonyx the cloakthe language of Teutonsshrieks subjugationhowls revengeStorm Force 10shows no remorsetakes no prisoners Driftwood Girlshe does nothave a careshe travels on the tidethe harbour wallher occasional gîtethe beachher catwalk to this dayshe sings songsof destinylove and loss,seaweed, faith adrift,the sudden diveof the cormorantseeking breakfast, andthe message in the … More DRIFTWOOD GIRL
The young Master Doowhat Useless-Hopeless Who’d have thought it! Me aka Mr Doowhat Useless-Hopeless put this little video collection of mainly very old photographs from my new book, ‘An Only Child & His Mum’s Amazing Germ Phobia’ along with a backing instrumental by the title ‘A Life’, courtesy of my son…who is featured as a … More MR DOOWHAT USELESS-HOPELESS
‘An Unusual Take on Life and Social History from the 1950’s Onward‘ In a perfect world I’d have been rich and famous thus deemed worthy of penning the story of my own life. In reality I am a content ‘nowhere man’ with a vast chronicle of all things bonkers to pass on to anyone who … More AN ‘ONLY CHILD’ & HIS MUM’S AMAZING GERM PHOBIA
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Steeden and Blamey in happier times before finding out that they both had a touch of the tar brush An extreme right-wing couple have been attacking each other with racist slurs since discovering that all of mankind can trace its roots back to the African continent. Mike Steeden, 80,…
A GONDOLIER, A STARLIT NIGHT Conjure me a social leperConjure me an ice cold beerConjure me a starlit nightAnd perhaps a romantic gondolier Venice, it was VeniceWhere my sanity was lostFell in love with an actressWith a heart as cold as frost Blanche the name she went bySo sweet when I had moneySo cruel when … More A GONDOLIER; A STARLIT NIGHT
A BUNDLE OF TRUE LOVERS You always walked the high wire, without a safety netyou were both brave and foolish, yet now I’m cursed never to forgetthat day you turned on a sixpence, that awful day you let me straythen stole a pistol from your father’s study and blew your brains away The day they … More A BUNDLE OF TRUE LOVERS
Two-dimensional visions of a man…a man I knew well…as a cartoon bear; of the crucifixion, with the Christ in female form, eerie and bloodless, her Mother forsaken of her; to behold a forest, a very real forest, yet to see it as if drawn by a child using wax crayons; to touch the bark of … More A JUNTA OF STARLINGS
“By sneeze or by God’s grievanceby Adam’s putrid aleor by those recalcitrant whoresI am ruined Can you thenmix me an ointmentfashion me a potionfind me a curecan you?If not then go forthand multiplythe pox is still with mewhat use the charlatan quack? Child, bring me ‘water bright’I thirstBring me ‘water bright’ nowthis instantso I can … More THE RAMBLINGS OF AN OLD DYING KING
YESTERDAY’S JOKER – as was, as is Cheek by jowlthe restless pigeonswatch and waitwait and watch‘No croissant crumbs today guys’He breakfasts only onsteaming expresso and nicotine He contemplates this and thatavoiding the issue at handalways dodging ‘that’ topicputs it on the back burnerfor now he takes the ’round the houses walk’homeward bound She does not … More YESTERDAY’S JOKER
From London a gent of consummate mannersFrom Paris an homme of great charmFrom Berlin a männlich so determinedAnd a New Yorker set out to disarm It was from this fashion house of loversSvetlana felt she needed to chooseJust the one who she saw as her soul mateBe the one she did not want to lose … More A FASHION HOUSE OF LOVERS
