alterego
The sun catching, bar hopping, beer guzzling, corduroy wearing, poem writing, book reading, window gazing, star following, meat eating, barbecue cooking, egg frying, egg poaching, egg scrambling, egg boiling, egg egging, field wandering, t…
24 years old and my knees crack Without a hint of time I sigh louder than That clock With its fucking noise I cannot yawn but my eyes droop heavily Into a gulp And a restless gulp at that and booze With silence Life is louder than noise The…
Smoking kills or so I've heard the smoke whispering An infinite breathe Drinking calms living But is mundane in itself Lonely as I swig Sleeping is boredom Breaks up monotonous days Leaves me exhausted
I live amongst the groaning, wheezing plague of rolling tyres and Friday vomit Splattered upon the pavement and dried in dyed hair and decorating Primark heels I live amongst the glowing, breeding plague of neon signs and fast food adorne…
And these words mean nothing Slurs, drunken sandwiched between lies Nothingness
I loved squishing them In my hands The scarlet juice Oozing Through the cracks between my fingers Sticky Seeping into the bramble punctures In my flesh. Almost stigmata-like. The Scarlet uniting with the Claret Making Burgundy The Burgundy …
I saw you running in a photograph Fear struck. You were screaming. You were naked Are you still screaming? Do you ever laugh? Flames chased you down the road. Did you make it To safety, to family? Or did you Stumble? And char. Face dow…
Got so much stuff to sort out before I can sit with my typewriter.
There's no me and you because we're us.
'I love the rain the most when it stops' ~ Joe Purdy
The train I was on this morning had been plastered with racist and ill researched leaflets from the EDL. I was in awe of the commuters who were either unaware or blissfully ignorant of the filthy lies that surrounded them. As I arrived to…
I put all my eggs in one basket, dropped it, so I made an omelette.
If he who hesitates is lost, how can I look before I leap?
Trust me, going back to school is tougher if you're a member of staff!
Escape that's kind of hard when you're in hell If you sacrifice your soul then the Devil can help For a life full of riches, a purse full of paper But that's a high price for eternal damnation Or you an work until your calloused hands a…
And there it is - c'est fini The end - and now what A beer A cigarette I don't want a black coffee Maybe the warmth of a fire or my family But it is cold and they are far And the end, alone, is clearer Even in an ale haze
And so it goes
Another night swimming in drink
'On my shoulders I hold the weight of what you think revolves around you' ~ Engineer
I guess It continues like this Gradually wearing The sole Of your boot Until bared Your heels crack On the hot floor Under the weight of your burden Slung like a noose across your shoulders Or a crucifix Splintering your back It continue…
Love was invented in Hollywood
I stopped on the stairs to search for serenity She was vacant she wasn't there I carried on climbing to converse with calamity We drank whiskey in brown leather chairs We called out to conformity 6 billion replied A dead hum rising up th…
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion ~ Camus
It's best to keep your mouth shut Unless you're opening to swallow some enrichment for your soul It's best to keep your eyes closed Unless there is a scant thigh or an unbuttoned blouse, waiting to be glimpsed It's best to block your ears…
I tripped over lust and I fell into love - hate being one of the hive but it's a hell of a buzz
He was swept off his feet from the first embrace Their eyes met for a second then he turned away "Goodbye, ring me," she called in a nervous way He called as soon as he got home that was his first mistake
She steps out of the shower but leaves the fog on the mirror To hide her eyes from her, self proclaimed, horrible figure She's naked, she cringes, she wants to be thinner The magazines that she reads shred the confidence in her The obvi…
Grim faces Scratch at my eyes with sharp smiles that slide off their chins.
Today I must lower my Grandfather's coffin into a grave next to my Grandmother.
It's when you realise you're nothing Vague, pointless, indistinct, grey and empty No better than the man arranging melons in a supermarket into neat rows, 4x4 No better than the ticket inspector patrolling off peak carriages, twiddling a bi…
A picture paints a thousand words, but a thousand words can express a thousand emotions
Keep your head down and keep on roaming
When you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through ~ Bukowski
And we drew stars on the pavement wishing we were infinite ~ graffiti
Drinking at the departure gate, Glasgow bound. Weary with the what's of tomorrow. I'll nurse my hangover before I am pallbearer. And I'll lower myself tonight lower than you will be rested tomorrow. But I'll rise to face the steely blac…
It was then that I realised If I stood on a chair on tiptoes And reached out with my right arm I could steal the Sun from the sky
Called in sick this morning my lips and teeth were red The sun blistered through the window, the world was far to glad My wall was stained with claret, I rubbed knuckles that had bled It won't be long 'til I can swallow you and relieve t…
*Piss* It stunk but I was drunk and I needed to piss. The toilet door banged shut behind me and the roar of the White Lion was muzzled. There were purple, snakebite vomit in one of the urinals and the other one were overflowing forming a…
It's when you realise you're nothing Vague, pointless, indistinct, grey and empty No better than the man arranging melons in a supermarket into neat rows, 4x4 No better than the ticket inspector patrolling off peak carriages, twiddling a bi…
'When your strengths are your weaknesses you cry.' John Fante