I don’t need anybody’s patronage

At least that’s what WordPress shows, that nobody reads my stuff. I give a damn! I don’t need anybody’s patronage. I am prepared to die in oblivion rather than sell my soul to the devil and deep sea. My stuff will never be published because evil wants to get me. I just couldn’t be bothered.Continue reading “I don’t need anybody’s patronage”

The bloodthirsty bodygrabber always gets his way

because everybody’s scared of him eating them up. Even God fears him. But I’m not scared of him eating me up. I copped it all my life and from the beginning of time. But I certainly don’t want any help from people with no guts. I have never been daunted by the prospect of beingContinue reading “The bloodthirsty bodygrabber always gets his way”

Any regrets? Contact Agony Aunt: Just for laughs 

Everybody reads agony columns quite avidly. Call it an obtuse glee at seeing others suffer, or genuine empathy; but I’m sure none can overlook a column that reads like this:  Dear Agony Aunt,  I am a thirteen-year-old. Most of my friends are having the time of their lives, but mum insists I shouldn’t go outContinue reading “Any regrets? Contact Agony Aunt: Just for laughs “

He’s got paradise on his windscreen: A poem 

He’s got paradise on his windscreen  And he dances for the queen  He’s got his engine and carburetor  And he’s the rough road’s decorator  There are rabbits in his hat  And on his feet winds sat  He dances just like that  with the fire-ball’s fire-bat  You can’t take the earth  out of him, was hisContinue reading “He’s got paradise on his windscreen: A poem “

I dreamt, but when I woke up, I grieved: A poem 

I dreamt that I could turn the river’s flow  into every pore of my basalt soul  I woke up to realise that this floor  can’t be swept clean right to the door  The horsemen in the battle only have evil   in their bows, and they trade blows that they will  I rub a lampContinue reading “I dreamt, but when I woke up, I grieved: A poem “