Saturday, December 31, 2011

stupid whore

found her in a bar
looking like something from a film
all red velvet dress fading
fluff coming off and bare patches, fabric thinning
smoking as if there were to be a
'don't mind if i do' embargo
making every butt, lipstick stained, proof for eternity
that it was you
you did it...
heroine

your lips
your secret but well traveled lips
you stink of old chanel 5
it comes out only on highdays
not too many, evidently
you are here for an occasion
you are here to pull focus
to pull him
to pull something

stupid whore
found drunk on your bed
on your front
lip chalk dragged down straight passage
top to half way down single bed
over the pale green
eiderdown
pistol still tucked into the tight side of your suspender belt

and yet
you wake up cold with just a splitting head ache
and clots of blood between your splitting arse cheeks

stupid whore
too flattered and drunk to
un-cling the atoms that make a man
a stuttering sickening stoat of a man
a lick of a dick
a flick and a click
stupid whore

so he had around 12 million murdered

love status

love is everything. all you need. all you want. all you seek. all you crave. i choose to give love unconditionally and am sneered at for it. and ridiculed. but what they don't see is, i don't get hurt by it. after all, if i give something freely and without expectation of any further action, then, it's done. given. and it made me feel beautiful. therefore, if anyone wishes to push it back to me, to upset, cos they have some personal reason,it can't come back to me. cos it's left me. it's left my anima. it's out there. as a child i wanted as much love as i could get from anyone i could get it from. family. friends. teachers etc. now i have my family, my loved ones, my friends and i just wanna give it without condition or contract. to anyone i want to love. happy new year. more love.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

big long kitchen

silent kitchen

too much space

everybody's
had their share
set for ten
now zero there

i am sitting looking on
from the outside in
they don't know
where i am
who i am
or even if i 'm here at all

i am not sure
that i know either

but i should like someone to know
before i go

before i go

silent kitchen
too much air
everybody's
had their share
set for thirteen
nobody there

i am sitting looking on
they don't know where i belong
from the outside looking in
who am i, where have i been

i am not sure
that i know either
i guess ones soul knows both
and neither

i think i'd like someone to know
it might be nice, before i go

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

boy of about 15

odd time, lasts about a week
almost bouncy
all unco-ordinated
gangly involuntarily undulating, yes, bobbing up n down
but in air, not water
move like a lank monkey all swinging arms n legs
but you can't be king o' the jungle yet.
skinny long limbs
flopping
flollopping
even flollollollopping down
and hard fall drop full as if they weigh tons.
from shoulder to finger.
a mile!

the entirety is full of life
extremes of expression in a nanosecond
japes grimaces sudden disproportionate rage
trousers falling down
then actually off

because there has developed as yet no arse ....

jerking strangely under enormous ear satellite dishes
attached to a girls headband
and that you see, is cool.
we wanted smaller
they want bigger
and that you see is time.
kung fu moves around the kitchen
careful or your broccoli quiche will end up punch kicked thru the sky light

nothing is new enough
expensive enough
sporty enough
no model pretty enough
no car fast enough
he. rules. ice.

yet when his special 'friend'
sends a the wrong text
he'll sob like the beautiful big bubba he is.

Monday, December 19, 2011

what if the best thing happened

post prandial perfection...
thought it was what
letting the little light in
allowing all the 'we don't want any of that, thank you' to squeeze out of
the gap in the old pine door
the one i wanted you said no
and you were right
at the time
yes, so coax it out just as it is
bilious belly bulging out of a weeny wooden skirt
and turn round, and come back to us
fine and pure
statuesque streaming sensuality
see how your
childhood expectations
held up;

''you were right''

it can't be true!
so God is good....
and i needn't have worried
endlessly and endlessly
and wept all night
and hid behind make up
and over exuberance
and over given
and tried so hard

i could have just
born my pain
and.


been me

Thursday, December 15, 2011

piece of inch

there was a lot of waiting
that day like all the rest
sweat on palms and sides of nose,
and boxers in my chest
the door was opening so slow
but speed was present somewhere though
for in that tiny piece of inch
i knew it was a no.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

the horror of the 70s


oh 70s! you led me into life
cherubic gold, pre-raphaelite like child
the sickly psychodelic double knife
it cut the cord, and everything went wild

the grown ups all danced naked round a fire
A woman's pubic hair was more her beard
the decade haute couture snubbed as a liar
and drugs made normal folk soft lumps of weird

and colours came like luminescent puke
and rhythms felt like fingers half in ears
and chocolate sold just like the thin white duke.
your parties taught us how to murder peers.

Monday, December 12, 2011

words

words pour out like
nail polish
from an open side stood pot
they can flow in bold or see thru
like the fact or not

Sunday, December 11, 2011

prince

smooth grey
long stretches
curled ball
autistic sketches
you remember
from september
to december in
...atoms.

how many
left to right
from left to right
to left then right
you print it in your head
you prince
stamp it in there
charcoal, terracotta
press the numbers
press them harder
harder still
your tick is charming

get some vapid
network host
and reproduce it
shiningly right through
some tv show...

and we all see you needle wince
as you forgot
one dot

i worship talent
and i revere
yes everything you are
i'm near.

to lunch with you
would be a thrill
in awe of you.
i take my pill

to stop myself from getting more
like you whom i do so adore.

when

when

its dark inside
oh almost black
the air's full flat
i sense a lack
its' not to be
that is to say
you miracle
strike up to play

when

i needed
one sense, hand feel
and could not find
the spinning wheel
yes one dark time
He bent to say
soft in my ear
to make a way

Saturday, December 10, 2011

i was still here...

today i wrote a letter
 i've wanted to write for 25 years
and then each year yet
more n more
until ...
all of my fears
were zapped,
by urgency,
like the confidence he sapped
out of me,
year after sneer after jeer.

and the big me
even after all that...
put it all in a spell check box

asked if i were sure
anything more
something in store

and pressed send.
it was half an hour ago

no regrets
nothing yet
inbox
in shock
doors will knock
it'll all kick off

but i was still here....

i rock.

the power of picking out the softies

 i see you, other person
all curled up seated there
when i go in or out of church
and feel your bully's stare.

to use your picture of maria
as a bargain tool...
to flick heart strings of blood
over those steps, with your next fool.

to flood shit pity, have your day
go home with 90 euro
i go inside and try to pray....
at home inside my bureau

is 18 for our weekly shop.
but thats not what is worse.
you know with every cursed cry
just hearing you my day was cursed.

your gift is sharp, you use it well
my gift's my art, my love, my fears
yours is sniffing out the ones
who'll spend the day from then in tears

the effects of the brain upon pain, pain levels, pain sensitivity, pain frequency, pain tolerence....

not to sound anecdotal
but the effects are
total.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

rare

oh the chef at work in love
swooshing soon to be edible noises and quick quick pans...
exquisite objets d'arts will be here soon... 
it's the scent of promises kept.
i see my hands over the keys
and see that burn didn't go yet
the scar from the car door slam still there 
some people have manicurists, too much time and money
i have a migraine is that the same?
but the deep sea noises of the kitchen cure it calmly
and hearing him hum from zauberflote, that boy, naked but for an apron
the most beautiful man i have ever seen will approach me soon
and tell me, naked and proud, lunch is going to be served.
we will make love while we eat, our eyes, our lips, our legs, our toes
i will hope i don't cry or suddenly flip
if i do he will cradle me and laugh me out of it...
this man is a whisp
but he is immense.
his talent divine.
the savant boy has just begun
and i have seen something rare.

i have something rare.



the wrong book

the kids in line all books in hand
the book store it was heaving
though no-one seemed to filter in
and dozens they were leaving...
the authoress was writing names
and one of them was hers
bag on table, book in bag
she talked with kids in verse!

it was far too busy for us all
if truth it shall be told here
and after days it was our turn
and finally we were near...
we got our squiggles, and both names
and went home high and pleased
she even had a pic with her
they both were so at ease!

pass me mummy's pink pills please...
in-store it went sick-fizzy
with zilions of five year olds
her desk-books-bags all busy. 

at home, and comforting ones child
'' we'll get gifts from the book-store... ''

for dedicated to my babe:
'the hole duty of a whore''

Friday, December 2, 2011

little piece of weird

selling them at 50 pence
selling them at 10
making them at huge expense
how i made them then
very weird! i sold far more
at 50 pence a throw
than when i slashed the price. research
is everything, you know

i love that little piece of weird
i put it on my lap
and stroke it til it purrs, or not
and while it has a nap.
i let you in, i let you in
you weirdy ball of strange
the ''PR'' who came up with you
will have to ''rearrange''

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

christmas

look at your hands
put inside them
all christmas goodness

decorations, spices
carols, myrrh
mulled wine, charity

squeeze them together
sob for an hour or so
and look inside your hands

are they empty?
or are they full?
and if so, of what?

you made that.

Monday, November 28, 2011

cloak in november

you are naked in some far off place
trudging thru the snow
you are gorgeous
perfect
your penis hangs down like a long female arm
so graceful
so powerful
your hair is jet black
and it keeps it all warm down there at the tree trunk
you have no chest hair
but you are not cold

i made you a pair or fur boots
and covered you in a fur cloak

it took me two months to make the cloak, thru july and august
too hot to hold the needle too!
slipping all over my naked skin and
stabbing myself
releasing pain
bleeding over my thigh
double whammy
so hot, so hot
and you would suck it off and swallow
and lick your salty lips
and spit down on mine
my smooth cloudy ones

and then it was finished,
your cloak.
and today you wore it
to protect you
and you lay on top of me, naked and freezing in our tunnel
where nobody can find us
not in a zillion years
they wouldn't have the first idea
where we choose to stay
or in which century
and you kept me warm
just form the light in your eyes
when you called me your queen

i just want to be with you
i want to anger people by worshipping you
i want to annoy women by serving your wishes , having none of my own
i want to push buttons and make them all put out by the old fashioned adoration i feel for my man.

you are my king
you are worth my salt, my death

all those that can't swim stand on chairs....

one places 6 chairs round room
tears in black mascara offer themselves to you
man human
like a pretty well spoken virgin with big breasts
fluttering her eye lashes and arse
take me
i wasn't even wearing any?
this charcoal must be coming up
from decades ago
a girls who is a weakish swimmer
needs protection
but i still need freedom
i must have freedom
so i change chair...
i stretch out, like a ballerina
from one to the next
me and 6 chairs
girl guests
women dancing, stretching, breasts, arses, naked, stetched out, hanging on
begging for help
6 guests, all me,
and an ocean in the kitchen
streaks of long wet hair everywhere

take one down the throat

i have deduced
it's the only way
to tread new ground
and do it new
fresh
snow
ice
white
snowman
bright
and get there first

shit won
again and again
and again and again and fucking again
its not possible
not when my flower is open
so brave and delicate
in this crack whore world
and scenting the room
with the truth
and with mercy
with grace
and with beauty

and you trod on it
snorting cocaine
as you network
and go on about your golden balls
drinking and sniffing, your hand down your balls
then subtly sniffing when you think nobody is looking
i never missed a trick
not ever

and my work is acclaimed
but not bought yet so much
i couldn't pay for what you paid for
you married a millionaire!
amazing coincidence...
yeah and M never fucked him til they were engaged...haha
must have been gagging for it
you books, copies moving
cos you buy the buying
you pay to be bought
you pay life to love you
live loves me for free

i cant stand it
all i can do
is be real to myself
i trust that old icon
the goddess in white
the statue of smooth female marble
no colder than marble

so we pose for an awards photo
and agents are in there too
and my accompanists
and my easel maker
my paint brush makers too
those who draw me naked
and those who record my songs
ghosts who wrote gorgeous pieces for me to sing all over the world
and those who knew i led much of my life in bed or hospital
those who recorded me and told me the truth
about my ability
elated me
those who filmed me
those who tired to sign me

i am
in tears but with a big strong face on
bounce back queen
so i can only do one thing
to take my place i earned...
i helped enough people for a million lifetimes
THAT IS LIVING
i helped for hope and joy and marching on defiant
i did it for 8760 days
enough now mummy

its too much
i am tired now
i lost my youth
my babies
my sex
my back log
acute crippling daily pain just isnt sexy...

he'll keep pushing me
because of love
he is an angel of butter and bone
we will be together for all eternity
but for now....
i'll take a hard bang down the throat
of this wagnerian singer that never was
and should have been.
never was anything.
and so should have been.
and never will be now.

do you know, i doubt golden balls would even notice the bullet
he would be so busy banging on about himself
so loud
talking at bono or dylan or some other total cock (probably himself)

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

zero fun

i wont forget
you never do
my sheer dismay
and chagrin too...

when mummy said
that for a treat
we could have
this special sweet

all the shops
had just invited
FUN SIZE MARS BARS!
... so excited... !

so after school
well, there they were.
and i was... just
in sheer despair

to little me
there was zero fun
in making
something
already smallish

even smaller?
                                                                                                                                                                                                   

i saw a KILO of M&Ms at the airport shop

round ish
like baba papa
was it father
or the mother?
is it red
or green
or blue?
will it be one weird
or two?
feel it
in your fingers now
twirl and curl it
stroke its mouth
stroke your own
it's not enough
pavlovs dog knows
when to ruff!
would i buy
a 45g?
a 185?
or 1 KILO?

when M&Ms are mostly fun is
when one's joined on top of one...

wake and sing

pretty boy
lying here
gazing at me
lovingly
we are two
we need you
its all spent
all well meant
wake and sing
giggling
early morning
silly things
six o clock
tick tock
lovers knot
mini-maze. stop.
then you start to
knead my heart
tears will drip
you might slip
rock me baby
make one maybe
stroke my hair
make me stare
i cant ever look away
perfect angel dancer sway
this is real
i can feel
it getting tighter
diamond brighter
we so want
to wear a ring
we can't buy me
anything
i am yours
your are mine
do i want more?

not this time.

lovely gorgeous desirable living men

all well dressed
clean pressed
purrrrr-fumed
well groomed
good looking
good cooking 
men 


are... 



GAY

bouncing being

snowballing feathers
never forever
down and onto a long ice clean
gleaning screen
skating down there
long loose hair, bare
thighs and bottom smooth
don't groove, naturally move
marching thru it all high fast
how long can bouncing being last
i bump along from one stroke of luck
and right into the next.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

ghost to rest

you have huge long blue curling talons
you believe you look striking pale faint
but they're just great big burped up gallons
of grotesque applied gypsy paint.

cross your palms, do your thing yeah, then piss off
you make me strike icy and wary
i feel your stuff coming up, i want to cough
i could predict you know, so don't dare me

you came up here. i didn't ask.
you found me without warning.
i didn't see your human mask
until that crispened morning.

and now you leave me one more time
so different is the measure.
i feel i have put right the rhyme.
cos i stole all the treasure.

just another doctor (i hate 99% of you all, uncaring egotistical cunts)

''now relax, dear''
easy peasy, with a total stranger, in a dodgy suit, halitosis...
supercilious expression
and patronizing commands like
''pop your things off''
''pop forward a bit''
and ''pop your feet in, that's the ticket''

i had no idea what he was looking for or at
commentary was there not
might have been watching a dvd of the football in there while i was wincing as far as i knew
but then i would be wincing if were at home and they were watching footie on my tv

...and while i am popping, what will you be doing, i wonder
setting me on fire inside perhaps?
leaving your instruments of torture in there, as you did before?
causing adhesians?
curing me instantly...hohoho
who knows?''
you are being silent.
one cannot know.

he deigns to speak; 'this wont hurt (me) at all...'

''ARGHH!'

'i said it wouldn't hurt, silly billy!
that was not a normal reaction'

'oh...i'm sorry'

then i thought HANG ON. no.
that is the last time i say that
not again. no more.
after 25 years of apologizing for my mistreatment and being paid
not to be cared for
the uncaring profession

'no, but it did hurt.
i wasn't reacting for fun.
i trusted you that  it wouldn't hurt then ...
it did.
my jumping was a normal pain response.
to the pain i was feeling.
how fucking dare you level that at me.
i wonder if people with 'normal' pain reaction
can sing butterfly like i can.
or write like i can.
or paint like i can.
or look like i can.
or move people into fits of laughter or tears within a second like i can

i don't have a low pain thresh hold. i am tough. try me.
it is not a personal failing.
and don't look at me over your half moons like that please.
i didn't just fall out of the sky.
i am in rather a vulnerable position here
you are in between my legs
i dont like your manner
i am in pain
and after all you are a man.
or so i was led to believe''

i had had enough pussy footing round fragile doctors egos
in case they might be able to help me
when they cant.
saying i feel a bit better, when i don't.
in case they might think i am imagining it
as they did when i was 17
and they didn't know what it was then either
i am still i recovery from the personal insult.
warning;
when doctors don't immediately know what the cause of very clear real suffering,  they try to  tell you it's in your mind, and probably give you antidepressants
because they think it will convince everyone that they themselves are not falling short....
it is you who have failed
its not that they just....
don't know their job.
beware. watch that tactic. its commonly used.
i wish i had know that at 17 the course of my life would have been so different.


and he actually said
'ooh we have got a feisty one here'

wrong moment to say that to me, sadly.
i said
'no, we haven't, not feisty, just one thats been in acute attacks of crippling unexplained
pain, daily, for 24 years
and watched it ruin every aspect of her life
and lost everything to it.
career, money, confidence, social life.
and hidden it, and fought it.
exhausted herself
led a double life
and who is tired of being hurt inside, by limp talentless men
who tell me to pop this in and pop on that.
not feisty, just seen it all.
done it all.
you are just one more.
number 261 actually.
i am not a feisty one, just one one who would would give the devil and all his henchmen
a blow job to get my life back, sweetie darling.
ok?'''

then he started to behave better.
'right i think we are ready.'
the nurse gave me a look as if to say
you dared.

he told me 'spit spot i don't have all day' from his desk while i was changing.
i said, ''i am wiping the ky jelly from my vagina, labia, thighs
and everywhere else you smeared it with your alien eye.
i will then put on the pad you gave me the size of france
 to fit into my g string the size of a bounty bar
into my knikcers and then my tights
and my suit
then i will be with you as soon as i can.
and i am paying you for this.
not the other way round.
you are here to serve me
you did the bare minimum. possibly less.
it has cost me £275, this fifteen minutes, of you and
your mary fucking poppins gynae exam.'

thats the least of it.
the very least.
thats nothing.

just another doctor.

Monday, November 21, 2011

not sixteen

i see my face
and every trace
of terror, laughter
tears, after
the point i made
can't ever fade
made myself hurt
that needy dirt.

i am a cruel jailor.

i see shades of molly just under my eye
i see them together hypnotically, why
my lips are pure christopher yes on top
masses of lip lies below it thanks. stop.

my body is changing
i love it this way!
it's fun rearranging
whatever they say.

each line i have worked for.
each crease i have earned.
it's true there arent many
i did stuff on earth.

i am not sixteen.

look

if you look at me once more
i shall manufacture such a surfeit of bile
that my mouth will become a big claw.
as you approach me and i smile...
a spray will free flow before,
disfiguring you for ever
from the sacrum, the plexus, the core
to your skin dropping off in bits, wherever.

so don't look at me.
not ever.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

lick

you'd have me lick your boot
so you can steal
a piece of the sky
of which i own a lot
a lot!

you should beg me
plead, offer up bribes and plea in desperation
and yet you would have me lick away

you pip!
you loser...
i am so glad i know the truth

i have never felt so good about myself

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

just jump

you know how things fizzle out?

i never had that
too hot, too aflame
too intense
too wonderful and perfect and energetic
i loved you both so much
why all my life had you not been there
when you were there
waiting
sisters...
and roses bled all over our knickers

oh girls, in general you are too too wonderful!
if only one could marry you
with your large pert breasts and deeper understanding

scream.

suddenly things crash around us
and everyone gets decimated
dirt and dismay everywhere
like a lorry losing its lumpy load down a highway
too fast in a single lane
listening on the folk/country station or bob effing dylan
who sings as if the pain of the whole world were coming out thru his nose
keep it in there. sneeze it al into your sleeve instead, codger.
the stores are all out of cigarettes and wine
we had no escape but the disparity of words, chanel lipstick and skinny jeans
i close, shut, cut off, hide to avoid to things said
it all goes in though
every single door bell .
i still shiver from a sneeze it did 8 months ago.
that, they say, is deep sensitivity
i live in fear
i never pick up, never.
and they get hurt cos they feel its the highest insult to be ignored
they are right
but...

what is my choice?
to hurt someone who'll get over it in time, or be decimated forever?
i know they will suffer less. ok. they told me.
mine is an act of kindness.
and i can say that before God on my knees.
surrounded by pink roses they generously adorn churches with here, where i live.
a perfect place to sing. a spiritual perfumerie
i am fulfilled here
and roses bled all over my knickers


ashes. still smouldering still on fire though subtley torturing
still burning gently up my thighs and rubbing into my hair
and right back between now
and oh how this agony reminds me of him
to introduce pleasure into pain
and change my life from
suicide bids
to words, giggles, and fun
trust, it must be impossible... trust.
just jump

ashes make me smart.
they are still alive!
they live!
little grey memories of acute agony
they know
they knew
they gnaw at me there
want me to say it?
they will always know and love me for knowing
fools think they are grey dead, but they are alive
grey has a lot of life in it still, i told you before
never say you know for sure
you didn't know about me
let it lie now

but those memory cells still give, on and on and on
a glorious cleansing, a confession, benediciton
pain but pure beauty it's not what you think
i touched my anima, i touched His
when roses bled all over my knickers...

miss diamond

oh she, miss diamond pure as snow
nothing can touch
nobody can harm
infinite virignity.
no, not imperfect wretched miserable humans
can sully her not quite white.
shine like a tear of love afterwards
or a trickle of joy during
or glassy eyes a moment before.
liquid miss diamond, this jewel
this perfect reflection sex
withstands the knocks and scrapes of time
the horror of unexpected disaster
oh, you mirror the moment the moon was made!
with joy with joy with joy!
like love, she lives on thru disaster
he told me that
and so it is.
pour your mined gloss and paint on some class or terror what.
miss diamond withstands pain fire and
mental torture
smashing, razoring, cutting glass.
it is not something out of reach
you may reach this perfection even now
as it is on my finger.
God made it
thank you, both.

it is done

Monday, November 14, 2011

the second step

starting to move on again.
like light rain on springs first crocus,
its soft sweet exhalation,
damp relief on His floral cloudy cobalt.
the sudden moody skies, what will they deliver?
if that is a flash of corn-gold sun coming hither...?
if so i will run, bare footed
and gather up all the village kids
my golden hair hanging down my back
like the flax...
and we will do a rainbow dance!
all of us together, singing, jumping and playing,
our little feet drumming on a grandure of grass,
whisperings of sacred belief
that God is here

turn over the pages !

this is not the only page of my blog. please realize that a blog is a diary. there are hundreds of pages. how can people not work out you need to search for a specific thing? hahahaahah come on people! for fuck's sake. turn over the pages!

the cord

lost in woods known as '20 years mine' to me
i leant against an entirely unfamiliar tree
wondering how the hell i'd gone astray
so late in my walk, on this particular day.
and when my wellington boots turned, hello, I found
a yellow bird, right there, proudly looking up, no sound
wagging its tail 'come-hither-ly' (and strange, if ask self,
for wagtails love fringes, water, open spaces
not shady thickets, horrid hemmed-in places.)
it turned and swooped away, coy backward glance,
and so i followed suit, in an avian-train trance.
and flitting onwards, veering left and right
that robot baton and brief reiterated flight
conducted me towards that cramp relief of light.
and soon i sensed that we were nearing
a sky light in the trees, thank God, a clearing.
as i burst free, it flew away! an end that was not.
why had i been led to this particular spot?
and yes, why, on this particular day...
and then i heard my mother talk to me.
my mum, long silent, spoke. she spoke! only
a modest welcome note, the cord, but then... i knew.
that i was free, that i had been found. i was forever 
safe, and never more lonely nor lost. no, not ever.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

''ber-lusc-on-i ''(to tune of hallelujah chorus) a limerick

the fact he had underage sex
and both caused behemoth effects
on italy and worldwide,
he constantly lied
then the loony got silly hair next!

celebration!!!

not only have i just finished my first book, 'girl on fire', firmly intertwined with this blog, but we just went out to the 'osteria dell'orsa' round the corner, to dinner, very uncharacteristically, lovely, too... and i found myself having a limoncello which i never do, and we come home, get into bed early (cos its cold and we are tired and have no sitting room anyhow) and...omg... dreams come true... berlusconi is going. HURRAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! celebration indeed :-)

****GIRL ON FIRE, NEWS FLASH*** :-)

THE PUBLISHERS, CPI (HUGE) HAVE ACCEPTED IT FOR PRINTING TODAY. SO WATCH THIS SPACE FOR WHERE YOU CAN PURCHASE YOUR COPIES . I SHALL MEANWHILE LOOK INTO INTERNET IDEAS TOO. IF ANYONE HAS ANY INFO CONTACT ME. ALSO HUGE INTERNATIONAL LIT AGENTS WOULD BE GOOD AT THIS STAGE. MANY THANKS, READERS OF FIRE x

Thursday, November 10, 2011

BACK COVER



diary; NEWS OF ***GIRL ON FIRE ***THE BOOK

i am very excited to announce that my book, girl on fire, has been finished. it is now with CPI publishing. i am thrilled wiht the front cover painting and the lovely picture that elisa took for the back. i want to thank my love for spending his whole life on my book recently. and looking after me always.  and thanks to my other proof readers who are devoted . mum n dad. i look forward to telling you who is stocking it. enjoy !

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

it is done

you took away everything sacred to me
my mother, my home and my security
you grunted and shoved out a three year old's life
you took what you wanted but stayed with your wife


you flamed even more onto fire misery
when two teenage boys hurt me sexually
what i remember is her on the stair
sobbing, full make up and beautiful hair


my still from the film is her pleas on the phone
begging and sobbing for you to 'come home'
and nobody noticed it apparently
the onus for feeling her pain was on me


so tuesdays and thursdays were hell for me clearly
when i broke my arm, you know, it was yours really
throughout the surrounding pain , i was ok
what goes around comes around, or so they say


you pissed over everything i said and did
i pissed on your tooth brush then put back its lid
she told me to make you a coffee at two
and i always made it, and spat in it too


i hated your hands, and i knew where they'd been
can't speak for you mate, but, my slate is clean.
so. now i look after you, now i just care
like you do for an old person who's not quite there


you ravaged a life and you tortured a youth
but my spirit couldn't be touched, that's my truth
my mum and my dad stick together, we all do.
i hold my head high. it is done. i forgive you

Saturday, November 5, 2011

blue cafe


there she goes every day
blue girl, blue cafe
she's ordering her usual
decaffeinated latte
what could it be that is making her look so sad?
what could be so very bad?
this blue girl

she's filled up a whole postcard now
that's her normal pattern
the waiter smiles
he does his job, he says
'cheer up love, it might never happen'
one of these days she'll just up and run right away
she's always been drawn to sweden, or maybe norway

she's falling in love ,this child
is losing her soul
and when the papers all screwed up,
she'll go home

she's moved on now to serviettes
its a lengthy session
she hates the way she's lost control
it was her prize possession
what are the chances she'll meet her prince some sunny day
what are the the chances he'll be married or gay?

he will be gay...

well, which ever way!
she's falling in love, this chid
she's losing her soul
and when the papers all screwed up
she'll go home

butterfly girl
you're going to spread your wings and fly far away
leaving it all at the blue cafe

Thursday, November 3, 2011

big beautiful angel

he lies so dark and tight
in a cream roll next to me
oh and despairs at my third
lot of biscuits and tea
i love him when he glares so
i see the fire we built and lit
it's in his eyes
the eyes have it
sardinian climbs
and closed castles
oh! just look at his beauty
that angel of mine
the priest will know
that we are sincere
he will bless us
and i will cry

my grandma has her willow pattern tea cup
with rich tea biscuits on it's saucer
at about 04,30 every morn
now its 03,58
so close, nanny...
always so close
you are in the next room i know...
i know because you told me.

oh she is at liberty now!
(while i am still at sea)
she can sell her stash of fudge form harrods
give away the tiny bricks of turkish delight
keep, or sell her heathfield antiques
and walk out of fletcher's house
her seventeenth century english tea rooms
smelling of respect, power, humour, grace
and april violets

lets have our tea, then, nan
and feel how He
would want us to be now...
well, you're already there.

i long to hold you
take me up with you now?

Little bench

i saw a little bench in white
with large enamel flowers and leaves
i was en route to florence, free
for autumn had begun to freeze

shafts of sunlight made it art.
if i could paint it now, I would.
it seemed to speak to me somehow
i didn't hear, but it felt good

i wondered who had courted there
or who had wept for someone dear.
if it were me, how would i cope
when seating someone selling gear

so who has known this little bench?
oh, gentry types, oh, rats and mice
battered women, crack whore pimps...
kids holding hands, sharing sweets, being nice

so what has been will steel itself
and proudly will not ever turn
refusing abjectly to help
a nincompoop like me to learn

and history has seen the lot
and knows, thru hooting eyes shut wise,
that selling smack is sharing sweets
seen thru another pair of eyes

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

little birds

how many times
little birds in my head then
out of your mouth
losing things together
finding reams of paper
with hidden messages

how many feathers
i'm holding this note on forever
to get closer to you
touch me there
wings are beating
two are sitting on glue

little birds get homesick too, up there, they do.
just like me and you

how much further
we read together we find
we bleed and rhyme together too
a year on one letter
but i'm reading it better
and now venice is calling;
''little birds''

the hidden message is this
the hidden message is this
the hidden message is this

fayre

blue blue myrtle blue
pour me into warm you
exotic fruits and candied peel
lemon cremey liquor feel
melting watch me melt melt
dancing flaming how it felt
Lord, spoon drip me from above
it's not food it's making love

upon receiving joy

i saw the way he slightly moved his lips
with every word i sang
i felt his arse grind hard
into the seventeenth century ochre brocade chair
watched his hands flatten on the chaise edge
preparing for the knife wound bit
so i sang 'perche, signor?'

i saw the people moved, i felt the physics
i could feel the motion inside us tumbling all over each other
scrabbling for peace and resolution
it came thru me
i was the aperture wide enough to let the light shine in
on the human voice
on love

but with this expression
this gift of electricity
lighting up stations
they all looked not at me, with the stage lights thru my blonde hair
my performance, presence, sheer expression
they looked to him.

they were drawn to the communion.
but to the receiving
the transformation of a human, upon receiving joy.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

worte ohne lieder

this purple firmly but faintly bending over perugino
pushes that indigo cello from this chord into the next
the child will add pretty red because it feels right
the adult will add daring red because it feels wrong
i will add red with a big mouth and faint hope.

Tuscany

It was just a holiday
I went into needily
My daddy's playing some chopin in a minor key
Wouldn't he be
The heat serated me
I always burn so easily
Red burgundy blue centre piercing me
So I found myself some refuge
A little chiesa
I'm sitting and cooling here in this dream boot
He's not here with me yet
But he's here

My Tuscany!
You've burned a great hole in side of me
And I promise with the cord that joins us
I'm not a sunbleached blonde holiday romance
I'm not one of your girls
who will love you
Then Leave you
I know I'm going to love you for the rest of my life
Like my daddy

the lizzards, the glow worms, their night choir of cicadas
case me in as i sleep naked under the big white net
This basil it stones me out , then the chicory...
The olives are juicy, fruity
Out of adolescence, lewd, overt, ready for taking
And busting with life
Just like me
In tuscany

I'm going to love you for the rest of my life
Like my daddy

Monday, October 31, 2011

comfort

i know a man who hurts so much
he's distracted, he goes deep
he gets so low
but i see in him the truth, so much
that i always comfort him
he says that i always comfort him

i just say this;
'hush, my darling, there's nothing to stir you up tonight
rest your troubled head
and lets ride that stallion sleep together'

i tell him fighting himself must be wrong
he says i feel what is mostly heard
i say 'can you relax for me, be strong?'
he says i soothe him with my words
he says that i soothe him with my words, with my mouth


i just say this;
'hush, my darling, there's nothing to stir you up tonight
rest your troubled head
and lets ride that stallion sleep together'


he says he has no home to go
that his vision is lost, from fear
he says he's lost
so i say 'i know
but there is always room for you here, you know?
i tell you,
there's always room for you at my hearth
in my home'


i just say this;
'hush, my darling, there's nothing to stir you up tonight
rest your troubled head
and lets ride that stallion sleep together'


and then he holds me
so desperately
and in the powerful dance
the transformational blue source of the firelight
he's a woman
he has become a woman for me
reaching out as far as women will reach for comfort

Friday, October 28, 2011

become home

rose coloured early morning love, the smell of golden croissants caresses my small nose, as i walk past mamma's every morning... the smell of heavy brown thick coffee knocks me out.
i more or less feel a push backwards... the kids there are laughing and taking in as much nicotine as their still upright lungs will physically admit... talking so fast, spitting food at each other ,legs all over the place,skinny jeans or death, pasticceria or death, 430 mobile phones ringing at the same time, loudly,
they let them ring on n on.,nobody even looks!it;s become home. i love it
this no stress existence just shatters my nerves though.i am ready to kill the nearest accessory.
it will be a doggy (they are essential, with diamante tags, like their beloved croccodile handbags)

oh kids, kissing behind the pillars, tongues still in and out in front of us all, before they go in and stay in,
it's all a matter of time, the paint by numbers increments of sexuality kids today are hilarious,
but have a much harder time, no innocence allowed too much information,too much responsibility,
and they have to weigh under 40 kilos by law, we just had fun and ate sandwiches and strawberry mivvies

the coffee bars make me wonder about life, those snatched half hours are a massively important part of life; write lists. poems.listen to new italians words sit on your own, see who'll want the seat sit and inhale 45 fags just in 28 minutes she'll come and cuddle you she have flour down her shirt i guess she is ''mamma''
she'll call you bella when you look like shit she is home.i love her.

oh slut italy, why must they taint the perfection of their 'crema' with a powder artificial orange? it ruins it. you over egg the omelette so very often dear itay.why would you have to? you are already perfection. confectionous custard is heaven but so is the gently slightly stretchy tearing of a cornetto still half in its napkin to the dance of laughing pierced roller skating students.

i will go to the supermarket and get squigley sausage and bread and red wine and we will make food become fun tonight
claret coloured late night love.nice

shoulder



I comfort him
dig him out of the whatever he's in
he brings me things that I have given up
since I last saw him
I try to bring some hope
my acting as if I can cope
and I tell him smokey things
about our dopey heroes on their coke
and my heroines


and life goes on
for him
he goes there
and says the same things
every time
I suppose we all do


and when he comes to me
he'll really weep
he says its' because I give so deep
but I only do as any friend would do
and then I bolt my door to him at night
but I just can't sleep


I am his shoulder
a little softer he says
a little older
but it sure seems to me that just as I get warmer
life gets colder


well, that's the way it seems to me
here

pull and push



don't look now i'm quite still
for once i'm not faking, not shaking
well, maybe a little
and that's just like you, to see right thru
whenever you come around
I catch me, so ugly
I am gagged and bound
but you could set me free
touch me
You could set me free form agony
or you could choose to cage me


well whatever we say or do
in this game there's one thing certain
that's that nothing's certain
but this pull n push desire
I have to touch you
do you want me to?


The heat and the tongue swallow wine
just makes me more fishy
more feline
make you take your time til your waves crash down
and mix with mine
oh, hello.
And in my arms is a tree
between my hips the moon
my legs the sea
raw energy
push thru me.


You could set me free from agony
or you could choose to cage me.
What'll it be?


cover

Sunday, October 23, 2011

you dont get owt for nowt

whenever you find life a battle
you take hills of pills and you rattle
then what happens next
is you get side effects
such as playing canaster with cattle

swimming man

swimming man
crown down
dolphin surf
filthy earth
coming up for air what
why do you do what you do?

would i not stay right under
under those up and downs
and smell the hot salt
drinking it
purge myself
and spit it all away?
piss under water
show em what i really what
water lock open
slow thru my beautiful hair
see the struggle bones poke thru my face
and pull the longing to stay under
meet the mermen, neptune too
more male marvel would excite me
talking to coral about sea wine
the finest dew upon the weed

would you persist
in reaching for what
an about turn in the air?
taking in rotten seaside life
and roads of muck
and white burned fat girls
why would someone want all that
artificial bright ice suck?
swimming man
you saw it once
you saw it twice
you saw that light
it wasnt white
motionless and jack knifed
limbs pretty much
a thing of the past
doctors,such ways with words
screw up pages of joyce yes
masticate, then crap em away

chair life image
could ya' sex it up?
not
water dragon you
not for you what
you have seen
and yet you wanted more
over the pink!

that is courage
that is manhood

swimming man
doing what you can
so push me push me
show me, do
illuminate then laminate me
make me all that they can chew
sicken them with a glut of me
make them groan 'who the hell is she'
so laugh and have a fine malt frisky
knowing yes your work is done

swimming man
you know you can
dont be another fan
who opens like a little clam
then leaves the way he came

swimming just in training for
the speed with which you'll swim away

Thursday, October 20, 2011

unstable

push me well or pull me badly
i will orange rage you madly
cranberry and blood for passion
fighting fleeting hook fly fashion
slam your weight stab on the table
crack it hard, remain unstable
i will choose so long you'll scream
break the brulee, taste the dream.
touch the pink so sink-soft tender
waves wont wait but slide surrender
hush inverse my eyes all wet
weird concerto where we met
i can smell a state of art
purple skies fall from the start
when the door went it shook fire
scratching shooting ever higher
but in bluebells it gets stronger
more secure and lasting longer

spent too long at computer

i just read 'simple template' as 'shirley temple' oh gawd. so ' would you like to use simple template?' became 'would you like to use shirley temple'.  no! God save us no. not for anything! never did want to. never will.

post cuppa ping

if i could do that
i would be happy
if i could be happy
i could do that

missing souls



where are all those missing sailors
if they'd known about the monster weather
then they wouldn't have gone

and there'd be fewer missing souls
fewer broken hearts
for the ones left behind

where are all those missing soldiers
had they heard the drills pneumatic sickness
sewing machine of bullets not seen
rat a tat tat his red on the green
just a kid, kid with a locket
mum in his heart, girl in his pocket
then they wouldn't have gone

and there'd be fewer missing souls
fewer broken hearts for the ones left behind

heavy sighing and repining
wont bring him back, it's no more
but there's just one thing
months on months later
long long letters from good men
saying ''I didn't know, mum
I didn't know, mummy
but love'll live on thru disaster.
I'm your one, your missing soul.''

Love lives on thru disaster.  

hide and seek



in this game of hide and seek
I guess I hide the most
and if you swam all enveloped by sea
i'd walk along the coast

but its alright now
I think it's filmic somehow

when you find me
i've been in a storm
i'm tense and i'm soaked thru
you ask me why
I mumble some cliché
but I want you to know

I want you to know
that I feel the same way too
sometimes it gets me thru and then thru

but I still hide
and I think
i have to

you should let down your hair

hey girl
settle down
have a walk
take a breath
read a book
have a smoke

you know your horizons
they can be anything you dream

and so
here we are
less is more
take the heat
feel the beat
find your feet

you know that tomorrow
and tomorrow will creep on

and the doctor wrote on her prescription
'what this girl must do is party more'
all he gave her was a cup of his wisdom
'such desire will defy any drug, so
you know
you should let down your hair'

my star


so here we are
falling off our cliff tops
into each others arms
and here we'll stay
leave our troubles at the door
and find another path way
the lovers way

and everything I wanted it to be it is
and everything I wanted them to be you are
my star

and this will last
you came out of the ether
from behind your camera
it happened fast
even for me
and I will pray
cos jericho is calling
all my walls are falling down
into a rosey inlay

traces of love


she's in the centre of her room
her life
plates with cream left on them
on the floor
but with rubbed off make up
a trace of laughter can be tracked down
in an empty glass

pale woman
try not to sing the same tune
blue after blue
alone at home

she knows he felt for her
when she spiraled down so
still, she feels uneasy with her own thoughts
but the scent of lilac
the feel of springtime
though just ghostly
mauve after mauve
they are still there

washing thru her wiley hair  

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

red peach night

tall unusual garnished glass
no to be toyed with, tipped back fast
not quite red, nor yellow nor pink
certainly not what i'd usually drink.
there it was on a silver tray
this heady scorching sunny day
by the beach, bernado's bars
passing bikinis and crocodile scars
diamond ladies mutton loves lamb
thirty years back they were hot stuff and glam
then we pierced the olives skin
and licked the flesh and sucked it in
the mini plates of crudo sticks
the good salamis and tooth picks
then they whooped up cocktail calls
watch the barman, rainbow falls!
blood of oranges, peaches squeezed
amaretto, strawberry freezed
granulated, just invented
pouring smoothly, summer scented
taste the melon on the side
when the moon pulls at the tide
cherry bobs each sip you tease
searing heat begins to ease
i never tasted anything
as subtle, sweet and interesting
it was joy within a challice
maybe i had shrunk like alice
i felt tiny and as one
with everybody having fun!

she knew



he raged at them softly
the crowd just inhaled her
sucked her right down to their boots
as she sang

then she stood motionless
looking at touts.
this panorama of ants, here
these are just some of her fans, here

yes, making them cheer more
with her every breath
all the young dudes
reaching to touch any part of this temple
they try to snatch
a breast rub
or a stroke

then the young women
who think that they are her
she'd understand all their angst
that they know.

then the all-timers
that saw her grow up
and out of experiment into establishment
year after year, her work growing finer
losing the twenties, the thirties are memories
into her forties and fifties, still soaring...

look at her, knowing.
embracing her wisdom
and turning the wheel
of fortune she made
the lovers she called on
the kids that she helped
the star that she named
the players she hurt

and cell phones are flashing
and trousers are twitching
the girls are loud sobbing
this woman just carries it all off in style.
the voice is more full now
the curves they are gentler
the clothing more subtle.
the love is sincere.

and her authenticity calls her the one.
that's what she had that the others...
just didn't.
she'll pose for their pictures
then they'll go home happy
and wink at the press
so they know that she knows.

she still writes it all out
and they're all still ravenous
changing of seasons
and decades of drama.
we wonder who's next and
who's touched with this something
and we only know
that she knew.

she just knew.