Rocketship

Friday
blasting through
spacehead
i'm cloudy
and I'm back again
inbetween cloud and space
i can't fly my own rocketship
i don't know how to navigate
i've just enough fuel for landing
without streetsigns
black or blue
if it's the moon
then that'll have to do

Asleep on the Radiator

a change of direction
while i was cooking my dinner
i thought you were asleep
but, no
you were just thinking things over

Best Served Chilled

Macaroni penguin's
Make the best sauces
They might not taste like pasta
But if latitude's what you're after
Head south 
For a penguin arrabbiatta

When Will He Who Hath Taken Away The Sins Of The World Be Famous

Jesus was an 80's kid
He liked Bros
Died on the cross
Tore his jeans
For our sins
Son of God
Saw them on Top of the Pops
When he'd done his miracles
He'd take his Disciples down to the disco
John the Baptist
Loved his Kraftwerk
And Mary Magdelene
Played the synth

Page Watching

I've been page watching
For the past few weeks
Mostly during my lunchbreak
Or when I'm on the bus


Some people call it reading
But I think they're missing the point
I don't just look at the words
I look at the spaces and the numbers too


I find second-hand books the most rewarding
You can trace the signs of age
The imprint of ownership
In every crease and every fold


I know what you're going to say
Why not just stare at a blank page
If you're not interested in the characters or the plot
Then why bother to even look


But for me it's not about what's there
But what's not
And after an afternoon of page watching
I might go and read a book