Apples Appease

They also like to tease Curvy, crunchy. Fragrant, munchy. Gushing with goodness, vitamins and vitality. Full of Nothing Can’t eat these. With a cold pang in my belly I badmouth this blameless fruit. It’s cuz I’m desperate, see. I’m hunger-y. Tummy’s tense. Itching immense. Spreading from head to toe. Oh woe! My diet is gonna … More Apples Appease

Seen/ On the Way

A boy can chitter and chat When he’s all alone, nothing wrong with that On roads long and green, where one isn’t seen No peer to jeer, or say something mean Out here it’s okay to stare If one were to catch an eye there Under bridges fringed in green, where one isn’t seen Tadpoles … More Seen/ On the Way

Dewey

Wring your socks, see if it makes a difference to the amount of squish in waterlogged leather. The tight embrace gives. A little, and toes ahh until they chafe in the stretch. Soles, arching, wrinkled and cold. Shrunk like shoulders hunch, to hide transparent tops and paste down trunks. Little rivers of it still running, … More Dewey

What Was

My teeth used to look like stars in my mouthAll definition of them has worn awayI had a headfull of braidsThick cords that could pull shipsGone are the daysWhen my hips didn’t existAnd zero meant 100. Now even a drop of water leaves me in irritationWhat’s there to sayCream,potion and lotion betrayFormulas made fast and … More What Was

Cracking Ice Cubes

(Not your teeth) Can’t be worse than crunching candy Is a maladaptive pastime but it’s so damn refreshing and satisfying who cares about eNAHmel? I like how they clink As they melt in my drink Cool on my nose Clouds of little bubbles Make them easier to break My mind from troubles Snaps me awake … More Cracking Ice Cubes

Cold Spaghetti

So my microwave has been doing this thing where it warms up only one side of the food. I’ve been having the disconcerting experience of a Warm mouthful followed by congealed Cold. (I like to eat around my plate, apparently anticlockwise, I’ll look into that.) And whilst I love a cold roast, the odd chicken … More Cold Spaghetti

Jammy Eggs

Stick your tongue into. No spoons! Now that’s sexy for a whole bunch o reasons but that’s not what this post is about. 🤪 Rather, I’ve discovered eating eggs with jam. Specifically apricot jam. Don’t know about you but apricots are just good to look at they don’t really say much to me, and I … More Jammy Eggs

Pursuits at 7%

Something always happens on the last dregs of battery life. Ambition>Discovery I race without haste, quite content to be cut off mid-way. Half asleep half the time. Because reading is most fun on the brink of a blink. Resolution so low the light’s yellow. Nothings real except the cramp in my arm and the sauna … More Pursuits at 7%