Poems from "Illicit Meeting" (Hangman books 1992)

ATRACTIVE NIGHTMARE

SanDee walks
 into the 
high street 
dark sharp 
blushing girl 
in the 
high street 
black jacket 
reflexing 
herself in the sun 
piercing blue eyes 
sinking
into your
lips 
dark sharp 
bondage girl 
in a never 
ending descending 
dead end


THE 10,000  DAY WAR

Spend one thousand hours 
in half an hour in Medway 
unemployment office 
and come out like a 
shell shocked castle 
after signing on and looking 
at the castles in the sky 
at the job centre window 
hoping your number will 
come up at least one more time 
before you go back to the 
Western Front

UNEMPLOYMENT IS WAR

You never get a heros welcome
only post combat alienation syndrome
from your tours of duty on the western front
with the government training schemers

A mind bending walk in the dole office
to practice guerilla warfare
i've done everything i'm collateral damage
running out of time now i'm back again
War is unemployment