Bug Gains Wisdom
We allow
Ourselves
A break from
Softness
Or that’s what they’ll tell you
On the back road
Motorway intersection ads always
Turn right look
Up from this downward spiral
Pass out cotton wool kisses
Like currency
Goodnight!
We slept on a dirt road
Heard the news there will be
No more news only
The lightness of being
Will assuage this divorced orphan place
Hands in sweet dough roll
In sticky mud
Stuck
In hopeful
Tranquil
Incident
Bug in a Car
There
Are
Places
You
Don’t
Remember
Driving
Fast
The wrong
Way up the
Main road
I wouldn’t
Have cared really
The sum of what
We offer to the
Bombs often amounts
To nothing if you don’t
Believe in living off magic dust
What do you eat?
You can’t conjure
Sustenance
From wasteland
But you can try to
Love people
Who don’t want
To be loved
Solely
In magnetic
Experience
Bug Skips School in The SummerTime
Remember skipping school
to steal a faulty copy of Clockwork Orange
The DVD shop man laughed
War is never fair
And this is a love poem
You looked so pretty then
with your too long hair
in eyes, in mouth, on couch
The space between
is every version
of closed lips
Since you
the land is grey
every Cause since you;
The colour of the sky
Never watched that film
the sound of the planes crashing
It was war it’s never fair
Men fight amongst each other
While the house burns down
Your parents’ woodburner
the cause;
The cause is boxing day
The colour is your mothers’ cooking
Distant hope now, stocks in hope
are down and the fish she made
is something we’d never afford
Now
This is a love poem or
War is never love.
Bug on the floor
Every part of this room has touched you
Or you touched it
The way we experience experience is individual
Not for me though
Not under the floorboards
Not crawling around your bed sheets
In the foetal position;
Can bugs even be in the foetal position?
Or does that have its own bug name?
Bug bug bite
More like bug bug bug you
You stupid mother bugger
Do all bugs have anxious attachment?
You’re bugging me out big time
I used to be so much bugging fun
But bug bye bug eyes and your bug
Lies, the end of this soft life
We shared your skin together we
Killed off herbal remedies together
Bug bye,
Together
With my big
Bug eyes
Burning big time
Itch
Itch
Itch
Me
Till I disappear in you.
Bug in a Big Hat
Ahhhh where to start?
With a bug in a big hat?
With an opal infliction
With the colour purple
Translucent money
Eating at our bed crumbs
We call this sleepytime tea
As we share one bag
To save on time
Together again.
Bug in the Club
Ooooweeee I’m the coolest mother bugger alive
I’m a lady’s bug
A real smooth scrub itch mite
Cocooned in your arms
You can’t get me out so
The world moves on
Across the page
I centipede across the stage
Spent five summers metamorphosing for you
Only to finally
Stop crying on club dance floors
But the move is an itch
And this itch itches on
Bug Tries Anarchy
Goodnight!
Anar
kiss
Fucked
On broken
Window bits
Tesco bag
Sexy wag
Talented
First bus
Prime
Admin
istered
Tree
Bug Like an Angel
All this flat tummied waltzing
We all knew
What it meant
Sat on your roof garage shouting
Sincere stuff at the sky
We are the merry men!
We know something that you don’t know
We opened the aeroplane door
And let our guts fall out
Our hair grow long
Our words grow longer
Like little bug angels
We change the station and end up
Stuck to the ceiling
Dust angels
Looking down
Feeling sorry for you
But we hit hard and higher
And we mean it
Bug time.