Tag Archives: My Life

Guardian Ninja

…luckily I had my blackberry with me the night I met a Ninja… me: can you guess whose feet these are? he: the feet of a ninja? me: ha ha, close…but seriously, what do you think this foot photo means … Continue reading

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No Foundation

I did not build this life to last It doesn’t float It has no oars It can’t swim to save itself It rests on sodden stumps Soaked to their core Its waterlogged walls Barely cling together Shiplap collapse It wears … Continue reading

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Beetles Skate For Free

Break me I say Break me like an egg Thrown hard against A cobbled walk Maybe I’ll dry into a sheen A glossy sheen Hardened under a mid-day sun That’s me, a tropical skating rink For bugs and beetles Or … Continue reading

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Miserable Shit of a Day

This day couldn’t be meaner If it knocked me on the chin and Left me splitting blood and broken teeth. 24 hours rotten to the core, So tainted it’s spoiling all the other days Packed on either side. Today is … Continue reading

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Teeter Totter

we’re a lop-sided teeter-totter, you and i one pushes off too hard and sails through the cloudless sky crashing the other to the ground with a hard thump one day i’m flying and the next day i’m bruised black and … Continue reading

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Flimsy

If you look too closely You will see that I am just Holes tied together with string

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Seeing Through the Dark

And what will I have then When these eyes dry out? When the pigment drains away And the green grass delights no more? When the wary thrush, Perching precariously on toothpick legs Disappears completely Into the background In a coat … Continue reading

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Break

i took a break from those words that haunted my lights, my brights and every shade of grey. words that eviscerated and contorted my voice. left me wondering who was talking to whom. i sat on a spate of grass, … Continue reading

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Broken by Nothing

The bones that held me up Were little more than straw Brittle shafts that snapped under The pressure of silence Broken by the weight of nothing I’ll just lay here in the stubble Waiting for some farmer On his tractor … Continue reading

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Squatters

Strangers have squatted in my house. A rag-tag bunch, They’ve definitely over-stayed their welcome if ever there was one. Chinese soldiers have taken the place of my lamps. They stand erect on their platforms, faces shaded from any questions that … Continue reading

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