Pepper?…

I give one of Abbie’s bras a fuss,

Slow blink at a shadow. 

Nuzzle a bin bag,

Stroke a sock. 

Love can take many forms, sometimes easily mistakable ones. 

…Hardly know her,

Let’s keep the patches shaven in,

Those are the bits I love the most. 

High or low?

Sentient ape. 

I don’t really fit anywhere,

it’s not that I’m too big; I’m an awkward shape. 

Other people tessalate. 

I care about my own things, and not bullshit. 

Like how great it is liking sports or being mauve. 

I get pushed out of the room. 

Alex or alcove?

Alligator Agitator, I have to assume. 

In the margin, rolling a joint. 

I either get high, or liquify,

and settle at the lowest point. 

Blind date

Hello, 

Your nipple is showing. 

She looked down, it wasn’t. 

She had her nipples harvested years ago. 

What made her forget?

Sorry, I’m nervous. 

War smoothed some of my wrinkles out. 

But brains are like zen gardens; you smooth them out and put the wrinkles back: neater than before. 

I just find my self redrawn by a more practiced hand everyday. 

Nothing is set in stone. 

We carve our own path. 

We shape our future the way we tend to our garden, patience, care, fluidity.

Craftsmen of the crafted,

Artist as well as the ar—“are you John?”

“Huh?”

“I’m Alice.”

No, my name is “Graham”.

“Sorry, I’m supposed to be meeting someone called John.”

I could be John.

“Ghrame!”

“Goodbye Graham.”- Alice said fair too kindly. 

Graham had gotten ever closer to human contact. 

He would try again tomorrow; and get closer still.

Patience, 

care,

Fluidity. 

The incredible sulk.

Hulk smashed another annoying appliance,

Violence, then silence. 

It wasn’t the girth of the noise, but the length. 

Done it again. 

Clumsy brute, I don’t know my own strength.

One last blow, Fan in pieces. 

In truth, I don’t know my own weakness. 

Burp Reynolds.

I drank some water just now in bed,

I was landscape. 

As the water rushed into my stomach it displaced a big burp. 

It bubbled through the water I slurped.

I felt like a bong. 

man like Big Ben. 

I giggled at the karma implications,

After all my many inhalations. 

One came back to bite me. 

But after so many rips,

One or two nips are only going to change my k/d ratio slightly. 

It’s only right, we give thank for this bizarre experience. 

Thank you, middle of the night. 

These soft hours that host jolly japes. 

That let my brain stretch, explore. 

This is what life is about. 

Those slender moments where I actually exist are bliss. 

That’s what I’m still in this for. 

Trek trendy voice.

Ask me to decide which day of our half-decade was the most important. 

I’ll say today. 

Ask me what I’ll say tomorrow. 

I’ll say the same. 

God rest ye merry gentlemen

I was hoping to do sweet f.a. this charmless period,

I will be harmlessly armless until January,

Smoking bare xmas trees. 

I thought a quarter ought to motivate me. 

Automotive ain’t me. 
I’ve been chuffing nimbus. 
a volcanic eruption, this crimbus. 
Sans Santa, sans tree. 
Human race, go on without me. 
I’m resting, not restive. 
Festering, not festive. 
I want to enjoy the freedom I’ve been blessed with. 
Pack my shit, leave the planet. 
So for the love of the baby jesus, can I just get situated, before I’m orchestrated into some creepy gay shit, fucking Janet?

Zookeeper Alex?

I feel like I’m in a zoo, I’m the only visitor, and I am all the animals. I stop at an enclosure labelled-

“Work Alex a.k.a Alexander roboticus- Dwells in office spaces, only eats ham and cheese sandwiches. His friendly nature makes him different from other Alex’s, only being slightly less social than Cruise Alex (Alexander nautilus).Work Alex can be identified by his distinctive appearance, including the rarely seen buttoned shirt and shoes that are used for camouflage.”

I look up to see work Alex in his enclosure, this one had the blue shirt. He was sat at the fake hq hub set up to replicate his natural environment, and he was going through a big box of returned kit. There was a zookeeper Alex (fuck knows where they got him) pointing a gun at his head, and another gun at his own head, sickened by his own abandonment of the zookeeper oath… 
…He was a work Alex too, They all are. I’m the only visitor, just coming to visit the poor things, day after day. It’s my duty, it’s a bit like a job. … oh no. 

Dead man’s switch.

I feel like I’ve let go,

let go of the the fear. 

Years of it. 

The version of you in my head has let go of the red button,

the one that when pressed detonates our relationship. 

My world. 

Everyone I’ve ever known,

Every soul to know me as a whole. 

All the people who love me, completely. 

Gone, obliterated, a black hole.

It’s been so lonely, but safe. 

Worlds smallest planet, floating in space. 

Crashed into another one and doubled its size. 

There’s so much more at stake. 

So much to lose. 

The red button within your reach, ready to let go of the cosmic union. 

But I’m not scared you will do that anymore, because I’ve pushed my own red button,

Our relationship ends over my dead body. 

Turn of the century.

I remember being baffled as a kid, that people born in a different century might still be alive. 

Not really taking into consideration how close to the end of a century that birth might have occurred. 

Then again, I am also a late-last-century birth. 

I wonder if I will grow to be unfathomably old, an object of interest. 

I wonder what questions I’ll be pestered with. 

Do you remember the war?

The rise of fascism?

The horror?

A peculiarity of time, it’s cyclical. 

See, those are the same questions we asked our old guy. 

Same questions, same problems. 

Seen it all before.

Round and around. 

Same ham joint in the background of scooby doo, same wedge of cheese. 

Turn of the century,

360 degrees.