dance like nobody is watching, write poetry like nobody is reading

kids tend to like me
my therapist said
because i am
weird in the head
i feel things intensify
or barely at all
but you know that i love
the slow, sad songs
a masked dancer pirouettes
down the cycle path
which is then autocorrected
to psychopath
i’ve seen her again since
wearing her cowboy hat
and i’m jealous but happy
that she has that
it didn’t occur to me
to wear an actual mask
an invisibility cape
draped on for the dance

and the thing about moving home is that, as well as organising your new home, you also have to sort out things with the old home. changes address. get a new doctor (best add that to my to do list). get all the last stuff out the flat, clean the place. and work / usual life commitments continue unabated.

car vermin

the sidewalk was invented
by ambrose walkside
or so i learn from the chatbot
to protect cars from
jaywalking serfs.
mounting the pavement
a man driving an suv
in an act of derangement
on his third attempt to kill me
i got away,
with his licence plate
can i be arsed to go to court?
probably not
he must have been having a hard life
no doubt he will kill me
another day
then someone else
almost reverses into me twice
but i’m sure it is not
me that is the problem

i moved in with my girlfriend on the first. we had a flatmate overlap situation for the first four weeks, so the place has been massively over-furnished and lacking in storage. boxes everywhere. quite stressful.

i really did strongly consider going to the police about this guy. a witness reached out to me. but to utilise the violence of the criminal justice system against someone for revenge doesn’t sit well with me. i realise there is a public safety issue as well. i’m hoping the guy was just having a bad day.

a rare moment of candour

ministry of war
at least it’s honest
in a prevailing atmosphere of
bad faith positions
like when you say,
i want to ban immigrants
i’m a country that otherwise
would have a declining population
it is impossible to construct
an argument that this is
fundamentally anything
but a contrived way of saying
white faces only, please!

i’m keeping my posts short this month – i had the busiest month. i moved in with my girlfriend on the first of the month and life has been a bit mad since.

this bit was about pete hegseth changing the department of the defense’s name to the department of war. how’s that going for you, pete?