THE NEW MOSES
Ambassador of the weather
Spotlight interrogator
King-pin of the LPD
Shepherd of the valley
Of stretch-automobiles
Clarion of the Lord
Scourge of the Sony
beat-box
Denouncer of fornication
Piped lift musak and bling
THE BALLAD OF THE ESTATE AGENT
I will bolt rainbows
To a smart urban population
I will impregnate
Bowler hatted minds
With dreams of high-rise
I give a plasterboard shoe-box
And call it 'New Versailles'
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I will nourish your eyes
In this square garden
Of monastic life
Wipe tears of loneliness
From the swaying gantries
Enjoy the minimalism of
Rough arse heraldry.
Yet you will slide into
A showroom world of formica,
Steel, glass, to close
Your fire-proof door.
URBAN SCAN MOVEMENT
I write between yellow lines
Then await logical juggernauts
To carve poetry in slow motion
I hang from bridges
To drop paint in the eyes
Of suicidal truck drivers
I put fire in the ambulance's
Hood, a wailing terror. I
Highlight the waving hands of trees,
Scatter lorry loads of Japanese art
And garden peas, lay aniseed balls
Before the tracks of nine to five
I skid containers of
Pure marshmallow, frozen fries into
Shrunken terrified Friesan herds
I mix the beautiful and prosaic up.
I am the sticky substance, unreported
In the traffic news, the blink
Of a cat's eye, the yawning gantry
Overhead - the terror of mixed crime,
Unreality and truth.
