Love’s got teeth: Like good shoes got grip, Like good coffee’s got kick, Like good bread’s got grit. Love’s got guts: Like good dogs got bite, Like good drums got tight; Like good minds got fight. Love can argue and it can lose; It doesn’t sulk and whine and bruise: True love bickers and laughs [...]
Bless me ducky, that I may be As diligently unruffled as thee; Whenever I pedal, however furiously, May none suspect un-equanimity. Bless me ducky, that I may seem, Like thou, soft and benign as cream; Politely eluding the predator’s beam, By smoothly departing as swift as a dream. Bless me ducky, that I will be [...]
Without you, I’m only just a trickle; In your company I become a flood. I dry up and dither, pointless, Until you come back and clear the mud. Then I rush and cheer and splash, Foam and leap over the rocks in the way. You are the rain that breaks the drought, You rush me [...]
A flawless design, a simple on/off: An interface straightforward and obvious, clear; No way to throw off or cloud the decision: I can action the light and move on without fear. For making things simple, I give thanks to light switches And wish my every decision was as free of hitches.
The urge to buy the towering type yet lingered – those twinkling tottering teetering heels at last a serious option after a childhood of trying on mum’s finest tippytoe shoes; after years of such shoes being too old too dainty, too delicate, too sexually sure, too choreographed and too mature; at last: the tippiest, tallest, [...]
She wanted oranges, only oranges, oranges, oranges, over and over again I offered to peel them, offered to pit them; she shook her head, I offered ad nauseum. She wanted to smell the oil in the peel, wanted to crunch the pits in her teeth, Wanted to tear at the cold sweet pith, and break [...]
She sighed with disgust and lit a cigarette, took artificial drags and stared outside; a sham rebellion, she never inhaled, but sucked and puffed with self-conscious pride. She looked over at me, dared disapproval, Hoped to provoke a fight she could win: I undid my shoelaces and sipped on my tea, and waited for her [...]
Too tired to be angry, I become resigned: I accept all the injustices, the ones we leave behind. Working hard all day and now, I simply want to rest, I find it hard to muster energy to agitate and protest. But switch on the box, turn on the news, and see if you unwind: See [...]
With a serpentine slither her skirt snaked sideways, the silk slid along her thighs. She hissed a sigh, her throat exposed and opened wide her unblinking eyes. He was halted, hypnotised; She sprang and caught him in his surprise.
My cousin’s pet snake hypnotised me: a plump slinking coil under false light tucked unblinking below small bushy plants. It moved with slow smooth ease, effortless: it mysteriously swam on the ground. An unwordly worm, an exotic tube; a sample proving jungles exist; I stared for hours, mesmerised, dismissed when, tired of me, it hissed. [...]
