Awkward but useful

Untouched by human hand

Kept at bay, always at a distance

Abused by aficionados

Held up on high, for paraplegic parasites

Pillars of establishment

With crooked views on impaired expectations

Sour water

I have drunk from the black bottomless well

Unmoved by human voice, held off

Always some for instance

Down I sink, deeper into the dungeon

Abducted for an exhibition with a catalogue

I am bound with words and pictures

Opened at random

Go away why don't you

Or else move in

Move in much closer

Don't stand, unmoved, at a distance

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Trapped

A double gin injected with tomato juice and liquorice syrup

The consistency of Havoline engine oil, but less fluid

Tumbled over rocks, sharp spikes, granite cliffs

Hung, as if suspended from the Old Man of Hoy

Hung-over, above the crashing sea

Twisted, contorted, bare feet find a footing - the drugs kick in

Sod the lot of them; but that won't do relax, reflect

Climb with uneasy wild steps, burn those broken step bridges

Beyond the smoke of roast skin, keep the fires, the braziers, the beacons

Always the shout - bastards, why me, why anyone?

Twitch, shudder, slaver on the pavement - bugger it

If only for a day I could wear more human, less humanoids shoes

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And so it is

And so it is

As Wild God plays

The Song of the Lake

Oh never mind, never mind

And so it is

Without nature’s light

I have to take a shower

Thus to energise myself

And so it is

That I could have worked

These past seven years

Except for those few days

And so it is

Not to see

Or here from you again

Is a waste of love

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Up and down the country lanes

Up and down the country lanes

Round and round in aeroplanes

As if in the flotation tank

As if swaying by the flames

Over and over the words he turned

Back and forth past and future churned

As if the photographs from the bank

As if all of love’s knowledge learned

Here and there he tried to recall

Now and then with hopes to stop the fall

As if the monasteries felt the shank

As if the father championed you with the scroll

I’ll say again to wait until the day is through

I’ll say again you are top of my top two

As if the registrar was your rank

As if you waited to feel the new man new

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And I love you this way

And I love you this way

And I love you that

I love you on the causeway

I love you on the flat

I go to you in my dreams

I go wearing my hat

I go to you with full resolve

Once more to play the neat straight bat

I am here and now

Wondering where you are at

I have seen one fatted cow

Walking slowly as you plat

I listen to the Australian man

His CD came in the morning as I sat

Oh lord how I loved and ran

Into the future for a longer chat

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