Two shorts...

Learning the art of succinctness

I'm trying
To write

Shorter
Poems


"..."

Dramatic...
...
...pause

These arrived at 5am...

In the early hours of not sleeping, these two bits of nonsense arrived:

MxB
If you were to multiply
The number of cats
Lost in Murakami novels
By the amount of women
Bukowski shags in his
The sum total
Would equal
The mistakes made
In my life


Literary Ambition
I have no literary ambitions
Beyond finishing
This Dan Fante novel
And heading to the pub
For some lager
Carling Black Label, probably
My friend for nigh-on 30 years
Although, back then
When you ordered
You used the suffix
Shared with Johnnie Walker
Whereas now
Four times the price it was back then
It's simply Carling.

Tryptich...

I was going to perform a poem about graf writers and star-crossed lovers at the Adelphi the other night. But it was a bit long. Unable to bore an audience with it there and then I unveil it here and now, just for you.

Life is 140 characters...

Life is 140 characters

I used to enjoy telling the world
What I was up to
Using 140 characters

But I woke up one morning
And realised that writing
For 140 characters

Is a lot harder
Than writing monologues.