PHOTO BOOTH:

I got the ticket,
Welcome to the revolution,

I got the goods,
A shrine,
A bed,
A dail-a-phone poem,
A piñata filled with candy,
A bunker knife,
A flag,
A stained glass saint,

I got voodoo room incantations,
Surfboard eyes,
Pearl clams,
Mirrored hands,
Moving on down town,

Exposure,
dressed in Black,
Travelling too fast for a snapshot keepsake,
Becomes famously forgotten,

(K)

I’LL BE YOUR DIET FIZZ:

The pout,
The kiss,
The leaning contact,
Exposure,
Enticing,
Look away,

Check the eyes,
It’s all in the eyes,
What the one wants ain’t what the other’s prepared to give,

Lazy reader,
Lean back,
Hair wrapped in tinfoil,
Talking in a cartoon voice to a hand,
Saying,
“I’ll be good! I’ll be good!”
And you know you don’t mean it

(K)

DIAMOND AGATHA:

This one’s dirty,
The one I ride,
The theory of “Hello I’ve arrived”,

Socially acceptable 70’s retro,
Chocolate rider,
Polka-dot skinhead,
Shivering voice,

Smiling pil,
Purple thumbnails,
Dancing velvet,
Season’s bleatings,

Violence smelling sweet with a square jaw,
Chicken good,
Streaming thought,
Outline of a man on a picture of a street,

Life is short,
Everything is Gold,
I need to lie down with you,
Or a packet of biscuits

(K)

ILLUMINATING MESSAGES

Hold the Blue,
Drop the news,
Tap a groove,
Thank the foot,
Escape the sickle moon

(K)

SKIN I FANCY YOU IN:

Sketcher,
Photographer,
Half-cut pizza Fiat,

Stone wings,
Hollow hope,
Hold on,
Hug the road,

Ears in fur,
With a muffled voice,
Time disintegrates,

Glitter finger numbers a mood,
White cascades from ears shaking,
9am,
Do you want my seat?

Listening to Idles – ‘Well Done‘

(K)

DETOUR:

It’s just a thought in my brain,
Playing skunk picture pavements,
Don’t look down the cracks,

Empty city Birdman reads the paper,
A flash of something unexpected,
Like a trill,
But not for you,

Angel on the back line,
Laughter like a car,
Sexual art,

You nutter,
You slag,
You stay away from me,
You’re mad!

I am the inflatable man,
Beer, Whiskey, Rock n roll,
Come dance with me

(K)

RAW WAR:

Smokers in the alley,
A crack in the clouds,
Try me later,
I don’t get you,

Here I am,
Waiting,
For a table,
I think I found your boyfriend,
It’s a small world,

(K)

DISPLAY THIS WAY UP ON DASHBOARD:

Maps,
Using,
Making,

Roads,
Cars,
Bridges,

Worship,
Pilgrimage,
Wonder,

The road,
On the road,
Over the road,

Under the cathedral dome,
Under a crystal sky,
I play a game

(K)

SUN:

Zebra Girls in top hats & guns express money,
Diamond scissor earrings dangling,
Pearls,
Heart tattoos,
Eating Italian,
Underground in shades,

Stand on the right,
We’re coming up on the left,
Down, down, down,

Pull the ring on the can,
Go ‘Click’,
Make it fizz,
Lean back,
Enjoy the ride,

(K)

FLU-BUGGED (SLIGHT RETURN):

A ragged rubble of sound,
Fake stone,
Smoke expelled from lips blows in this direction,
White auto-tuned cat sniffing the ozone,
Waits by the wall for scraps from passing tourists,
Looking cute,

African Queen sings through holes in tight black jeans,
Leans back into the sixties,
Dipping fingers into olive paste,
Breadless,

Cruising girls watched by boys,
Sat in the doorways of shops that don’t take cards,
Sister twins,
Stare in curious,
Boy arrives,
Behind a winged letter ‘B’,

Fashion is laughing,
Making up it’s own rules,
Backfires,

Writing nothing to no one,
Getting up to something,
Keeping secrets,

You exhaust me,
You are leaving,
Under my skin,

Listening to TINARIWEN

(K)