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Road Trip > Adelaide South Australia – OUTBACK – Cairns
- Queensland
Adelaide
1. If
we had begun
If we had finished
If we had floated or laughed
@ the crossroads
marvellous would be our discourse
none we did
we did none
The outcome is well worth the wait
The weight of our choice crushes and frees us
Simultaneously
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2. Long
after yesterday’s vanquished irony
I fell in love with it
Wishing for it to be again
01 January 2021 Perseverance Road Adelaide South Australia
For my Australian siblings of whom I have none today’s maths date is 2-1-21 (it is now Saturday)
For my Yanks who count
The date is 1-2-21 (it is still Friday but when it is Saturday it will be 1-2-21)
And that is our difference
May it be no more than that in 2021
3. Absence
of turmoil
In this vacated space
Filled with once were shadows of ours
wandering freely
#aimlessly?
Across opaque horizon(s)
never knowing the absence of turmoil would lull us to sleep
Without regret
You and I
Eternal turmoil made manifest
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4. Plateaus
of latent polluted consciousness
(entrenched by many)
How trite the uninitiated beggars becomes
Mistakes of evolution
fools who do not garner my vision
I think I will go and shower
just to wash away my thoughts
so exhausting it is being me
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5. Thoughts
clashing
Crashing
Accidental reasoning
Love
…such a token effort
If we make it to tomorrow
we will know hope is real
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6. I
sped through life
just to get
to here
to hear
what I thought then would be now
so mistaken was my prophecy
intent unravelled
Revelations disregarded
But then again
now could be what someone else imagined
[implanted into me]
as it surely is not where I thought
I would be
long before I sped through life
to arrive to here
The miracle of life
finally realized
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7. I
treat my like as a foreign spy
Hiding behind a façade of normality
and my love for you
No criminal intent discoverable
so good I am @ living life as a double agent
to my memories
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8. The
entertainments of disaster
so easily removed
hiding in front of my TV screen
computer
devices galore
Sometimes I have several disasters
Streaming
Screaming
across multiple screens
All so distance
so abstract
I liked the world before
all these visual haphazard attempts
at life-living fell to the ground
Tomorrow I will sit in my garden
Talk to my flowers
Such a calm world I will see
Why can’t everyone do that
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9. Not
a favourable situation
Falling off the cliff
Following
the herd
We heard
Wrongly
I love the notion of eternity lasting in nanoseconds
Such a favourable situation after all
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10. Your
love obfuscated memories that had no chance of survival
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11. I
waited
Anticipated
Strived for
the crowning moment of my life
The turning point
Awakening
Orgasmic nuclear achievements unhinged
Unlocked
Bursting forth
Flying free
That metamorphosis moment
in the fable narrative made manifest
But alas
After 73 years of incoherent mumblings
This is it
These words strewn across my rapidly vaporizing self
Damn!
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12. No
one really cared
though the wind pretended to
as the village was swept
by one more tornado
and as with any love at the end of a dream
various misguided saints
turned away
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13. While
rehearsing my death
That final moment prior to lights going out
Senses no more
Unfilled dreams erased
I was surprised to see how funny you were
your magical smile so surrendering
Before I forgot all that once was
#Life’sFinalEraser
While rehearsing my death once again
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14. So
late the change
Seasonal obstruction
Bleeding softly
Blending slowly
Believing surrender is the only option
Tomorrow we riot
Turmoil awakening desire
Changing the spectator’s perspective
So exciting
The only side I choose
is that of change
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15. Passing
paragraph toward the end of the news
“death of galaxy observed”
A galaxy with billions of stars gone
such a loss of innocent lives
I look at my hairbrush
More of my hair on my brush
less on my head
now that is a tragedy
of cosmic dimension
We do not see that in the news do we
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16. If
only
That is what we tell ourselves
(opinion enhanced opportunist’s options)
Orchestrated insurrection of life’s imaginary choices
As hallucinations begat our distorted reality
(our love is forever)
As a child I believed so much
I was a mental magician
(An absorber of what is possible though never possible)
Then suddenly I became old
No longer believing in much
(though still as bewildered as ever)
I stare into the vacuum of my life
If only
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17. Plain
played plans
Seemingly so simple
Death defying dread directly displayed
I had no idea it would end like this
Plain plans played
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18. While
mumbling incoherently
on the corner of here and there
passing pedestrians
stopped
smiled
saying
“of course that is the answer”
Before going over the cliff
Of here and now
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19. Dreams
surrendering
shackled to reality
beliefs unhinged
The alchemy of broken memories
lay scattered
Tattered
across the masked horizon
naked
Otherwise
I had quite the normal day
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20. During
an analysis of cliffs never gone over
Flooded rivers almost crossed
Fleeting desires slightly quenched
I reflected on my out-of-focus reflection(s)
Questioning
why always so close
never closer
Perhaps being close is all that kept me alive
So far
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21. Souvenir
shop of love’s lost interest
sitting on dusty cracked shelves
Once-were-trophies of a younger time
when a drunken world
so easily staggered
only to awaken decades later
scarcely remembering
love’s lingering souvenirs
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22. As
the sole audience
(deleted soul survivor)
to the manipulated characters
in the continuing sage of my ruthless nightly dreams
(BTW terrible actors each and every one of them)
I applaud
in my questionable absence
to the endless hazards of unfulfilled dreams
smouldering on the hillside of fading humanity
Waiting as always for the final curtain
to end this charade
I so relaxingly refer to
as my only life
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23. No
doubt the strangest of times
Easy to miss
such nuances
But we try
I so easily replace time with space
It is easier to fill
Time does not encourage hording
Space it seems does
I surround myself with surrendered artifacts
from my collection of 73 years of avoiding time
Too busy with filling space
At the destruction of earth
Time will still exist
Space will not
Tomorrow I shall embrace time
My space has no future
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24. Sleeping
pill
Such a day breaker
Waster
World fades
Faces melt
Whispers losing their meaning
Dreams so close
If only I could find a place to lay down
randomly disintegrate
The path is windy
A hindered trail
If I were to stumble would anyone notice
Slurred speech creating such a tangled response
Out-of-tune hum
If in the future I become conscious
A co-conspirator with reality
I hope the world makes more sense than it does now
Sleepy magic making everything disappear
Except for you
The smile with a thousand faces
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25. I stopped watching the news
All I do now is wait 4 U
Nothing I haven’t read
So long you have been dead
So long you
Nothing more new
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26. The
distinct mirage of love without borders
makes us aliens
swept up in the swirl of changes
we never asked to a be a part of
Though we happily flow against the tide
looking back to a simpler time
before love without borders dissolved
our resolve to continue
long ago when we hoped
Now we no longer exist
You and I
lost in the mirage of love
without borders
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27. Unexpectantly
my wings fell off
no alternatives were coded into my makeup
So unfortunate to realize I was not a bird
or another random flying creature
as I crashed to ground
This is not new
There was that period when I believed I was a sea inhabitant
After drownings then being resuscitated
by a school of illiterate fish
and tossed onto an erotic slimy beach
teaming with voluptuous wrestling lesbians
chasing me in my ignorance
I took up some Zen shit
escaped to a Himalayan mountain top
until I froze to death from passing storms
Luckily to thaw out and be adopted by a pack of binary wolves
who raised me
Finally letting me loose into society
where to this very day
I am still trying to navigate these insane times
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28. In a hypothetical nightmare
your anecdotal love disappeared
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1. Living
so freely
in a recreated past
in my mind
makes now seem like the future I never believed would arrive
and fortunately never will
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2. When
I no longer exist
will I remember
when I did
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3. Such
subtle monstrosities
Feelings of déjŕ vu
Linking shadows that once were us
freely chasing unfettered desires
across such shifting landscapes
only to become separated
You swallowed by an unreachable horizon
Me – I just fell
Free-falling through life
Never landing to analyse these feelings of déjŕ vu
and such emptiness
Drowning once again
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4. All
my dreams came true
Now that I am awake
I wish they had not
01 February 2021 Perseverance Road Adelaide South Australia
5. I
followed my followers
who follow me
as I follow them
following our imaginary selves
over a virtual cliff of remorse
that we had followed
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6. Once
the majority
Now in the minority
These alien thoughts transiting my mind
I texted you
Emailed
WhatsApp you
You died decades ago
Long before technology reminded us of our fractured selves
Our digital relationships disappearing into wastelands of memes
Brought back to life
Then fading quickly
like the majority of thoughts once entertained
now slipping away
With so little left
I do not know why I hang on
to this memory of you
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Darwin
7. A
whole new place
Even my reflection is different
A shadow of my former self
Laughing out of tune with the ill-gotten wind
ricocheting off the horizon
I once chased after success
She was a cruel cross-dressing mistress
Leaving me to die in a softened breeze
Now everywhere I arrive I embrace the new me
Only to bury him
as the sun shoves itself into its existential nothingness
05 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
8. The
resident clown resplendent in my head
left me for the circus that left town
leaving me confused as to my response
in this haphazard world I troll
in anticipation of a better me
7 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
9. The
seldom differences mimic past heroes
As accidental as lover flounders in an ill-conceived wind
is my suggestion of you
My once upon a time hero
When I was young
long before today was conceived
I too floundered
then often wondered if I would dread
being who I am now
and as the seldom difference would have it
I do
08 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
10. We
unlearned what we learned
Now realizing what little value there was
we humbly sink
below the unlearned wisdom
we once had learned
08 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
11. Everyone
headed the wrong direction
I followed
taking selfies all the way
Peaceful endings are boring
Evolution is based on mistakes
Secrets of deceptions cracks open reason
We all fall in
Now we are engulfed
here
in the wrong direction
Wishing we were not
09 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
12. I
tunnelled through life’s mountainous deceptions
only to discover I never had my eyes open
to the wonders of delusion
until now
at the final push through life’s remaining opened door
where I get to embrace nothing at all
Though I still hear you laughing
‘I tricked you once again’
10 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
13. My
narrative became so boring
that I ended it right here
10 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
14. I
followed myself to the end of the street
just out of curiosity
which way would I go
once to the end of the street
but I remained lost
I often eavesdrop on conversations I am having
with bikini clad thrift store mannequins
hoping to get some racing tips at the local racetrack
I raced myself up the summit
to be first watching sunset over my fading life
but I did not make it
so I will never know how this will end
11 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
15. My
life mimics nature
As unpredictable as the weather
due to climate change
11 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
16. Such
an artificial entitled moment
rolling across
simultaneous event horizons
To choose any particular
would diffuse the final variants of realism
knocking on my locked door
causing such a crack in time
space would explode
leaving us as scattered alien atoms
across our pretend entitled universe
pretty much like how I feel now
12 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
17. Life
is the interruption experienced
when we try to dream
13 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
18. Minimalistic
love created the universe
Complexed love will
destroy it
13 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
19. My
vehicle of expression
disintegrated
in the afterthought
of a failed memory of you
13 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
20. How
fruitful is disdain
We wallow in ignorance
never realizing no one wiser than ourselves
has ever existed
nor probably will
In the future everyone will be a comedian
without an audience
so fruitful our disdain
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21. I
scribbled upon the wall of life
‘have mercy on me’
The city council proclaimed mercy was no defence
Walls came down
In their place rabbit holes appeared
You know the rest
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22. I
awoke to discover that love was an innocent bystander
to those of us who have fallen in battle
where bravery was celebrated
with sleep forevermore
16 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
23. In
an ill-fated chosen direction
Love rode winds of change
Sweeping us out to sea like an ancient fabled creature
in heat
devouring an army of scantily clad luckless heroes
Leaving us wanting more
in this ill-fated direction we have chosen with such glee
17 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
24. Marvellous
miracle makeover
makes this newly created escape
from your slippery nebulous reality
so pleasant
I will ignore anything beyond the porous borders
of my dreams
Here in this magical mystery makeover
I now call my life
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25. The
last thought before death
makes everyone before
slightly obsolete
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26. All
the wrong people looking in my window
I pulled across curtains
they knocked at my door
I open it
they fall through a hole in my life
I hear them laughing at me
I watch them chase me through my reptilian infested dreams
I whisper to the mayor
about an insurrection
at the outskirts of my love
She sighs…
turn off the news
turn me on
All the wrong people confuse me
Perhaps I should join them and become wrong also
19. February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
27. Point
of view
Rolling along unseen seasons
How difficult living in our head
Of course no one agrees
such a muddled mess
human endeavour is
I lecture inanimate objects
Point of view
The response is no different than discourse with carbon-based clowns
My table understands what I express
Expose
Examine
As well as anyone I have ever met
Fuck point of view
20 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
28. Ancient
story motifs
saunter across my dampened pillow
as if headed to a biblical ark
floating into alien salvation
I turn and run for the nearest dream
worthy exit
collecting memory collectables
as I declutter in sync with the rising tides
This easy sea-drowning I am faced with
once again
as fables
‘life
particles’
stagger across my pillow
I drown
in thoughts of who we once were
21 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
29. The
inequality of creation
is that death outlasts life
by an insane proportion
making neither life nor death
a worth candidate of creation
21 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
30. Premature
dream ageing
Just wrinkled blocks of time
Youthful dreams decay
Smudged hopes
blurring reality
Who cares what yesterday brought
Tomorrow is a slut
bleeding ulcers at the guillotine
as town folks orgasm
Nothing is without consequence
We live to die
decaying without want
Premature dreaming
that something sometime somewhere somehow will be different
ha ha ha
What a blessing chaos is
22 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
31. I
like to write
watching ink flow across a virgin page
Then I ruin it all by rewriting on a computer
Letters falling across time
Distorted reason
Pens make me feel wholesome
Words exuding from this phallic representative
00zing nonsense
I wrote on my tombstone
in the snow
‘hear here a
liar lays’
I wrote that in ink
Rain came
Washed me away
The words stayed
I like watching myself write
It is so sexy
I am a perverted of ideas
I write them down
Woe is me
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32. Your
winning was relative
to my losing
Otherwise
I could have perceived my loss as a win
Then equilibrium could have been cosmically restored
But it was not
Now is not
Leaving us bewildered
Once again
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33. The
beggar on the street corner
Rags Smells Sadness
could have been me
but he was not
So I went into the shop
bought an imported deluxe ice cream supreme
Satisfied my hunger
that I was not the beggar on the street corner
wishing he were me
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34. I
have a symbiotic relationship with death
One of us will succeed
23 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
35. I
bought a book on dream interpretation
in a language I do not know
so I would not pillage the frightening dreams
that plague my nightly landscape
with such terrifying apocalyptic scenes
that I am forced to chain myself to my bed
to prevent utter destruction
from a reflective dream
It looks like an interesting book
if only I could understand what it says
23 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
36. I
took time out to write you this
Since you died
you have not had time
to read this
24 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
37. Since
simplicity slipped away
societies of reptiles have laughed at us humans
without our slightest concern of our foolishness
as a once special species
soon to be displaced
but the return of simplicity
overwhelms the complexed maze
we have become entangled in
24 February 2021 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
38. All
straight lines are horizons
if viewed without deception
opinion
reason
As a matter of fact
I have a straight line of memory
of when we were free
Before I became lost
falling over the horizon
of you
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Adelaide
39. I
try different narrative ideas
obviously this one did not work
24 February 2021 Adelaide, Australia
40. The
flight home was noneventful
We landed fifty-years past where I wish I were landing
when we were so full of life
dressed in 1969
Anything we wanted to be
landing in Hawaii
forever free in those few days
before tipsy topsy life went upside/inside out
I remember it all
whenever I land I relive
wondering
Am I back home
fifty years ago
or now
here
so many lives past later
28 February 2021 Adelaide, Australia
41. Window
open
butterflies fly
2. Clouds whispering
Moon is hid
3. Rainbow takes selfie
announces own birth
4. Crocodile king
devours drowning city
5. Rain tastes like honey
cancelled wokers cheer
In the future all of this will be interpreted as prophecy
fulfilling the jester’s agenda
Everyone
will die laughing
01 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
42. I
once was concerned by the increasing wrinkles of my ageing skin
Now I follow the lines as roads across these maps of life
Celebrating the frequency
of becoming lost on these wandering well-lit highways
The increasing wrinkles on my skin
01 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
43. The
pleasure of planting a garden
that I will not be left to harvest
is knowing no one else will be either
All our achievements
ending like those of the dinosaurs
but passed over as useless by cockroaches
and other remaining life forms
more evolved that we would ever have been
if only we had not gone the way of the dinosaurs
01 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
44. When
I am asleep
is the only time
I laugh at your jokes
01 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
45. After
I die
When no one remembers me
(much like now)
an object once of mine
found
taken home
from a thrift shop window
reluctantly sitting on a stranger’s shelf
will have my memories
floating unknown in their space
Perhaps in the middle of the night
I will say BOO
from the object
that once was mine
and scare that pretender to death too
02 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
46. A
dead poem
All my friends grown old
I watch them die
Remembering what we said long ago
Someday we will touch the sky
Sometime before we die
But I no longer try
To touch the sky
Before I die
Because soon I too will die
02 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
47. I
listen to the wind
blowing away once was calm
leaving behind broken sadness
for the next wind to blow away
02 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
48. After
more than six-decades of writing
stories prose poetry emails diaries shopping lists sky-writing essays novels
so much more
I have decided to stop writing
and contemplate what I just wrote
why
it’s future impact on global society
etc
and why is anyone reading this
03 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
49. While
under the influence
life burst forth in the universe
Firstly as an alternative
Then as a curiosity
Now as ‘what the fuck’
Otherwise
creation has been somewhat interesting
05 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
50. Earth
is still in its adolescent phase
I think I will wait to come back
until after she has grown some balls
05 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
51. She
was an experimental kiss
Now she is hiding beneath a tombstone
calling my name all night long
If only
If only
05 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
52. I
wish you could see me now
My accomplishments
Macho body
Incredible fantasies
But you died so long ago
Oh no!
You are part of the universe that sees me everywhere
Every angle
Every thought
Stop staring at me
I need some privacy
or you will know
I forgot all about you
Until now
06 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
53. So
awkward suggested love is
Desire cripples the most ardent promise
I always wanted more than I could absolve
Disassociated streams
Carbonated thoughts of consciousness
bypassing passing moments
effervescing
So awkward
suggested love is
06 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
54. I
re-engineered my belief system
so I could believe in you
What a poorly constructed construct
The collapse was imminent
due to such an improvable
re-engineered belief system
06 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
55. My
love for you
is a cognitive illusion
waking me from recurring daydreams
as I cheer so loud
my neighbours call in the military
so they can love like me too
March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
56. I
write messages every night
Shopping lists for dreams
If they are crossed out by morning
Alive I am
Another day
dreaming
opening before my very eyes
08 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
57. Every
day I miss you more
Oh how I envy you gone so very long
Far beyond the hazy life I endure
Knowing you can never miss me too
08 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
58. I
hate facts
They splinter my imagination
Mishappen my dreams
Muddle my fantasies
Facts are so pedestrian
Making us all die
so boring
08 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
59. There
is no vaccine for restorative love
Making us immune
to the loss we shall endure
09 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
60. She
was a simple matter of change
Nothing the same
ever since
So simple
Once upon a time was
09 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
61. Watching
horror films before bed
keeps the lid on dreams
escaping my prison
where I run down the avenue screaming
‘the begging is near’
10 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
62. What
if
there was no what if
· Would we know
· Would we stress
· Would we die
What if
11 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
63. As
an audience-free author
Never on a best seller’s list
with my shelves of writing
hidden from public view
Sacred secret rendezvous
Shadows of ideas
escaping into alleys
of homeless idealists
applauding my non-involvement
Libraries bookstores news agents
overstocked with anything/everything
but not everything/ anything from me
I sing my praise of being audience-free
on the wrong side of the world stage
An inspirational invisible indecisive author
to myself
12 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
64. Random
passions of my youth
linger as a satisfying smile
as I amble into old age
Others think I am going batty
laughing at the most inopportune times
It is just me
remembering random passing passions
of my youth
12 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
65. In
a current misunderstanding
I thought I was in a time and place of 40 years ago
I was in my 30s
Another side of the world from here
No smart phone
FB
Emotions gone viral
We wrote letters wondered what would be
‘can you imagine being mid-70s’
We said in the 70s
We would laugh then go be wild for a night or few
In a current misunderstood
for just a flashing passing moment
I thought now was then
when an imagined future
was so far from what it became
My long-ago life
so real again today
13 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
66. They
continue to cast me in horror movies at your side
A roughly hewed supporting actor
When all I want is to show my talent
in forgetting the past
as my adage
14 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
67. I
try to remember when I lost wisdom
Where did it go
Who has it now
Would I recognize it if she returned
What good is it in the world today
Perhaps I never had wisdom
Much like everyone else
We pretend to possess what we never had
Now that wisdom has been lost to all
14 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
68. Never
having been a tree
I can only imagine such fear
of being chopped down
made into a chair
for a fat politician to sit in
calling for the removal of all trees
for construction of thousands of chairs
for all the city’s people to sit in
and listen to the fears of being a tree
as told by a chair
holding a fat politician
14 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
69. I
sent a cardboard cut-out of myself to my lover
Her desires difficult to quench
She had triplets
with my cardboard cut-out
leaving me in the shadows
Wishing I had more
Dreaming it was me
Wishing it wasn’t
Wondering
why cardboard cut-outs of me are now part of the landfill
where they built the hospital
for the erotically insane
Lovers of my past
each holding cardboard cut-outs of me
15 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
70. I
am excited about the end of civilization
when I can finally be myself
15 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
71. Her
life was merely a passing thought
to everyone except to her
and to me
left haunted
scarred
excited
wounded
opaque
fulfilled
by every passing thought
I have left of her
16 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
72. I
followed you
Until you died
Then your path became too weird
Windy
So now I only follow the setting sun
sinking forever more
into the lustful horizon
as landfill
16 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
73. How
calm this storm
before your righteousness subdued the terror leaking from my heart
that you would possess me
once again then leave
Leaving me
Swept away by the storm that is you
18 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
74. We
saw results differently
Washed away by misshapen mishaps
Philosophical foreign accents
the slurring of notions left unsolved
unresolved
dissolved
The sinkhole of interpretation
Swallowing
what should have been the seeing of results
as I do
Creating a perfect world
Ha Ha Ha
Just kidding
We all disappear
so easily into nothing at all
19 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
75. Your
ambient love
Broke my heart
20 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
76. I
learned to lie when you walked away
to myself
you will soon return
I have been lying to myself
for fifty years
20 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
77. Deep
in my mind
I run and hide
no one knows the chase within
Colours running down my face
Perhaps I am invisible
Crowds pass me
Some right through me
I show no pain
Guilt is a fool’s game
I am a fool on the run
If only every hero would wait
as long as me
the kiss of death
could have been more fashionable
Pleasurable
Fantasy made flesh
But I run and hide deep in my mind
March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
78. Semi-spectacular
surrealistic lover
suspending suspicious sequential events
left me baying once again
at the moon
Surprise Surprise
21 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
79. I
thought becoming old would be boring
But no
I spend so much time counting new ageing spots on my skin
Wrinkles on my face
Grey hairs
So much memory loss that I forgot what I was to remember
New aches
New pains to massage
People in the shops to be grumpy at
Youngsters – those under 70 – to complain about
Political annoyances @ every turn
OMG
I never knew getting old would be so draining
I think I will take another nap
22 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
80. I
mimic an epic alternative ending
to each episode of my life
returning to a predictable performance
in the midst of my confusion
crisis
circus
as the neighbours laugh
wishing they were not me
23 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
81. I
like what I see
I don’t like what I see
I replace the mirror
with a picture of jesus
Now I don’t want to be me anymore
24 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
82. I
remember you as a shadow
racing across my youth
disappearing when the lights went off
24 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
83. My
gift to the world
You
Ha Ha Ha
25 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
84. I
must say all the dead philosophers are shit
out of luck
25 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
85. I
tumbled down the wrong side of your love
where the sun refuses to shine
Moon never rises
Cosmic dreams dissolve
However
never to regret
I would gladly tumble
so freely again
26 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
86. I
reconceptualized my dreams of you
Realizing now
they were nightmares
never ending
27 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
87. I
tried to be happy
Just to see what fools were like
Now I am a fool too
27 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
88. Less
interesting than the common indentation of life
The reason for factual summary
of what could have been
gets deployed as laziness not manifest
So often we become muddled
with these ridiculous thoughts
some of which become believable
Though without sanctuary
nothing makes sense
Which explains why I have become less interested
in the common indentations of life
28 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
89. No
one remembers me
or that I was the one speaking wisdom in their psychedelic landscape
where I am often dancing naked
in my 73-year-old body
where all the me-2 millennial castaways
masturbate
where no one remembers me
speaking wisdom in their psychedelic landscape
29 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
90. I
am so bored with being a youthful warrior
chasing other’s fantasies away
Leave me to fade
off
into my own illusion
delusion
confusion
where fantasies need not to be chased away
29 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
91. I
answered the ad
‘discount
on love
35% off with free steak knives
if applied in the next ten moments’
Unfortunately I was put on hold for eleven minutes
Stabbed in the heart by love once again
30 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
92. I
spent the past fifty years getting rid of all my friends
23-years oh so free
How grand it all should be
30 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
93. Not
happy with the planning committee of this planet
Weather not correct
In-convenient
Days Nights too short
Bit messy
Love just a passing fantasy of emotionally stunted disrupted humans
Another asteroid direct hit would shake things up a bit
Start over
Origins of a new species with embedded
Wi-Fi
And perhaps a bike lane through the centre of town
I definitely need to have a word with the planning committee of planet earth
31 March 2021 Adelaide, Australia
94. Shortly
after I lost all sense of order
my life fell into place
01 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
95. Your
love was a psychedelic kaleidoscopic cumulonimbus formation
enveloping all before
Now after
none of us exist
01 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
96. Alarms
of doubt
awaken the sure-footed warrior
as he casts herself into the flames of desires
Stumbling
he grasps at fleeing shadows
wondering why she no longer makes sense
01 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
97. I
lost virtual virginal visiting rights
to my favourite lurid lucid dreams
Leaving me devastated
But pure
For a new series of nightmares
featuring you
unedited
02 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
98. Now
that you have been dead
Gone
20 years
I will stop telling you
that you were the one who let the dog out
and like you
she never came back
03 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
99. All
the stupid people
with their stupid beliefs
makes me feel stupid
for not believing
any of their stupid beliefs
03 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
100.
Thousands of years ago
philosophers were unable to Google answers
Lucky them
03 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
101.
Shortly before I lost my looks
I posted a selfie on our mirror
reminding
of whom I was before you walked out our door
to die forever
so long ago
before I lost my looks
4 3 21 * Adelaide, Australia
102.
I love have spotlights shining on me
Prevents me from falling
off the ladder to the stars
where dreams never come true
Where spotlights so bright
no one sees me falling
05 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
103.
I read in a comic book that your love for
me was real
Saw it in a cartoon too
Storm clouds obscured your skywriting message to me
not sure what less you could have said
My hacked accounts reminded me another cash infusion would release your love for me
My astrologer predicted it too...for a fee
Dermatologists across the Outback said stop letting you under my skin
Such a mystery love is
if only I could decipher anything at all
your love for me
and its slippery value could exist
06 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
104.
If everyone in the world
was as lucky as me
would I be lucky
06 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
105.
It took me seventy-three years
to realize
this was not a worthwhile poem
06 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
106.
Shortly before being born
god confided a secret that he did not exist
that I should become a storyteller when I become old
to snare others
into believing she does
then we can all non-exist together
07 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
107.
Forgot what I forgot
and why I keep smiling at my reflection
bouncing off stellar dust
as the choir sings hallelujah
and I avoid your name
07 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
108.
Going extremely slow
Dreams broke open
as logic took a backseat
then we danced
the rest is just our twisted memory
reminding us to dream and nothing more
07 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
109.
I outlived several nursey rhymes
Unpremeditatedly of course
Now with expeditiously retro cancel-culture
I am no more
08 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
110.
Love is the great eraser
Vanquishing what was before
#Perhaps
You were the great eraser
I am no more
08 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
111.
I was born on a stormy night of no
coincidence
shortly before the end of time
Growing up was a challenge
as I masked reality with cerebral nostalgia of past fantasies
Old age such a delusion
just a passing mirage
fading
before the end of time
09 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
112.
I embrace making mistakes
So that I can imagine what life would have been
if I had not
09 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
113.
I had a text-book death
shortly before books became obsolete
So that I would not be just another digital masterpiece
like those dying now never will be
09 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
114.
I often predict past events
just to watch them collapse as truth
in the future
09 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
115.
Being wishy-washy
Fishing in wishing currents
with no chance of becoming anything more
than wishy-washy wishers
10 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
116.
None of my dead friends attended my
funeral
Leaving me to ponder whether friendship has a used by label
Were they accountable friends
Did any of my deceased friends take it personally
that I did not wax eloquently
with some useless limerick of their memory
of their endearing qualities
ha ha ha
now to ignore my plight
What messages are my dead friends attempting to transmit
by not going to
speaking
haunting my funeral
Again
10 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
117.
How embarrassing it would be to be
remembered as you
We could join the circus
No one would want to recognize us
Separated by mere recognition at birth
As embarrassing it would be for you to be remembered as me
Again
11 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
118.
Gently falling promises
cascading across a broken frozen memory
If only we had not slipped
Fell
Shattered
our promises may have held us together
long enough
to breathe in a new morning together
11 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
119.
Ancient ruins hiding stories
Mysteries
Secrets
Petrified hopes/wishes/dreams/sadness
And that was just yesterday unravelled
Wait until today has been revealed
then ancient ruins will be remembered as the pinnacle
to today’s success
12 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
120.
I asked my doctor what was wrong with me
she looked crazed then died laughing
If only I could have known
we would be at the carnival happily together
I never found out what was wrong with me
or the theoretical anomaly of dying laughing
I sit here watching my life slowly drain out
over a misty blurred horizon
and wonder whether there ever was a reason to care
Whether it is more noble to die laughing
than never to die at all
13 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
121.
The loneliest thing anyone can do
is to realize
no one thinks like them
13 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
122.
Always landing
Never landed
Always flying
Never in flight
Always living yesterday
Never today
Which is how I ended my recent conversation with myself
14 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
123.
When asked why I ran naked through the
town square
it was obvious I had forgotten how to relax
Dignity was left at the nursing-home door
Reason had become a casualty long ago
When asked why I ran naked
through the cathedral too
I let them hear
‘exercise is good no matter when’
Though in this padded cell
I no longer can
15 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
124.
Long after we die
we will be remembered
for what we were forgotten for
Never existing
beyond a passing memory
washed away with shadows only we knew
16 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
125.
We expected a different outcome
It is all so confusing
I would never attempt to write a poem
Story
Play
Exposé
narrating what happened
Why such an
unexplainable ending
Are we the actors or the
audience
Or just the confessional
author unable to complete
Compete
We expected a different
ending
The Big Bang
like our love
will never end in a tidy fashion
17 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
126.
Due to a pre-existing wife
I need to stay vaccinated
against a terrible strain
of past memory hacks
18 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
127.
Stolen memories replace ones I no longer
wanted
Hoping yours are better than mine
20 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
128.
Such a change of seasons
Fallen leaves
Frosty love
Forgotten times
A sudden crack in forward motions
Nature died
Though not really
She sleeps too often
Life pretends
Rolls over
Starts again
Such a change of season
Time to go and be born anew
20 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
129.
Wow this is different
I screamed into my tea
The End!
21 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
130.
Surges of joy
Happiness sparks
Everything looks good
80% towards great
Stuff turning to dust
gold dust
On a winning streak
of losses
Learning to love being last
Riding the train through the Outback
Maybe forever
Nothing left of the world
destroyed outside my window
no angels left to sing
I don’t care
Only this ride through surges of joy
There is nothing else
22 April 2021 Overland Train > Adelaide to Melbourne
131.
I will never be free
as long as I am a ghost
in your dreamings
22 April 2021 Overland Train > Adelaide to Melbourne
132.
Never knew you flew
Few far in-between
Such a smudge on time
If navigations were simply adequate
would I not fly too
Here there in-between
where long ago off you flew
too
27 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
133.
Strangers
texting to be my friend
I tell them to wait until 1947
as that is when I will be born
Then we can be friends forever
27 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
134.
I left pages blank in my diary
in case you reincarnate
wanting to set a time
to love me again
28 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
135.
I thought my life could not be worse
until my dead friends
family
pets
dreams
appeared in me in a dream (of all places)
saying it could be so
I could be with them
tormenting themselves
for not staying with me
28 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
136.
A week after I died
I sent myself a ‘get-well’ card
I never received it
28 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
137.
Quietly we placed the future behind us
as if their schadenfreude predictions had already manifest
leaving us hidden
shuddering
beneath this weight of the inevitable
(so often devouring our every thought)
Yet letting us escape behind darkened karmic infused mirrors
whose only reflection
(lies unto themselves)
quietly disturb
what only could be the future
So unattainable
28 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
138.
I hung my thoughts out to dry
Rain came
Washed them away
28 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
139.
I love being elderly
Makes me realize how far yet to go to be young again
Start over
Ashes gently blowing in the wind
Another shadow over a shit-filled horizon
What is there not to love
with being elderly
29 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
140.
So excited about tomorrow
Another day to add to my collection
Trophies of consumption
placed on a hoped-for shelf
If tomorrow should be so fortunate to include me
amongst her ghostly guests
29 April 2021 Adelaide, Australia
141.
Strangely embraced thoughts
Possibilities so endless
Fascinating how we got to this place
More than seven-billion people with strangely embraced thoughts
I wonder how many are identical to mine
The hum of thoughts filling all time and space
No wonder evolution is grinding to a halt
Stopping me in my tracks
02 ay 2021 Adelaide, Australia
142.
Today was fun
I lost my way
Drifted amongst clouds
Frolicked with mermaids
Laughed out-of-tune
Gambled away my inheritance
Wrote a mystery novel
on a toilet paper roll
(recycled)
Discarded all religious beliefs
Began a new one
(soon forgotten)
Today was fun
I wonder if I shall remember it tomorrow
X
02 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
143.
I cleaned my window
so as to see
how bright the approaching future
will be
03 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
144.
All the worries of the past 50 years
slipped away
with a re-enactment of one moment
we thought would be the time we would remember forever
that 50 years ago moment
replacing now
with so much delight
The power of memory to dissolve all else in front of it
A miracle of the mind’s only lasting salvation
Yesterday for Today
03 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
145.
I stayed awake all night
thinking about a dream I had the night before
What a daze to spend the days in
04 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
146.
Lost words
None left
to create a poem
05 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
147.
Saw my name scribbled across the breasts
of time
WOW
What a turn on
05 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
148.
All the lost sheep
following me into my lostness
in their infinite joy
05 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
149.
Life in shambles
Such an art form
Forum
Abstract fantasy realism
disabled
scattered about
How simple is complication
If only we could frame it
Hang it in the gallery of forgotten time
Ancient forum form
We could visit our life in shambles
whenever we wanted
perspective
06 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
150.
I sought solace from the worry
exterminators
Eradicate
Replace
I screamed
Thunder
Lightening
Fireworks
nature’s orgasm
Peace
Stillness
how boring is solace
I am returning to worry on the next flight of consciousness out of here
07 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
151.
Wisdom is for idiots
Give me ignorance
And I will show you a good time
02 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
152.
If only I could start over
I would have begun with a different line
Now set in stone
such a mundane start
If only something dramatic
Sexually shocking
Profoundly impelling
Consciousness raising
A new level of perception
Prize winning material
Life changing
Evolutionary enhancing
if only I could start over
08 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
153.
Unable to enlist anyone to play the part
of me
Change the script
Spice up the story
Try a new tune
I went back to bed
for another day of being me
09 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
154.
For the impeccable discerning wandering
consciousness junkie
So often found frolicking beneath fallen debris of wasteland dreams
there is now sentimental coding building persuasions
of forgettable phantoms
to implant into our uncontrollable trolling mind
we once thought was our own
09 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
155.
In an incredible act of defiance
The sun rose
02 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
As an audience of one
to myself
The applause is almost deafening
whenever I leave the stage
Spotlights go off
Curtains burst into flames
Audience leaves
10 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
156.
As an audience of one
to myself
The applause is almost deafening
Whenever I leave stage
Spotlights go off
Curtains burst into flames
Audience leaves
10 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
157.
In a war against my body
War won
Peace won
Resulting in a dream body
to sleep in
but not to awaken in
12 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
158.
Closed doors
No man passes
to see her shadow
smirking
on the other side
12 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
159.
I pulled sheets over my head
to stop blankets from laughing at me
Their ruckus continued throughout my dreams
Who knew such destruction could follow an evening of debauchery
Next time
I will sleep beneath carpets
laugh at myself
12 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
160.
Her love died
in the cemetery
of broken clichés
13 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
161.
Her love was a statue
decaying in the cemetery
of broken clichés
13 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
162.
We tried to replicate each other
as if we were the last laugh on earth
13 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
163.
Old age is like arguing with weather
Whether or not change is inevitable
Unlikely
Forgivable
Unintended
With nothing left
@ the end of rainbows
but for memories
of a sunnier time
13 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
164.
Without memory
we would cease to exist
14 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
165.
Long ago when I watched news
I had fears
some of it could be true
No longer watching news
I fear what I do not know
Now that I totally exist
in an alternative-imaginary-dream_filled- hallucinatory state
I fear I will awaken to find I am wrong
14 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
166.
While chatting with a statue
in the town square
I realized my construct of the universe
was suspect
14 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
167.
I stretched reality to include lies
that are fantasies
encased in dreams
that I believed were true
Reality is elastic
or it was before developing porous quality
broken stands of DNA
Letting lies disguised as dreams
Once-were-fantasies to tumble out across the landscape of…
So much for the ill-fated doctrines of reality
16 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
168.
In an unlikely contribution
Nothing was added
Leaving those without
Free of knowledge
which gave rise to politicians
to lead us with their unlikely contributions
of nothing at all
19 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
169.
While lifting weights at the gym
I contemplated the burdens of life
and how crushing they are
if dropped to soon
19 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
170.
When all is said and done
we will play back selfies
in delight
of whom we thought we were
when we were glorious
20 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
171.
I acted
dumb
Befuddled
Just to confuse those who thought I was
21 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
172.
Pretend we are dancing
as the whirling world slips away
Dissolving vapours
moving colourlessly against obliterated backgrounds
Dreamtime in motion
(woke ancient storytelling believed)
Chemical interactions
spilling love’s interpretation
across frontal nodes
(determining the allocation of attentional resources to novel events)
over the crying
horizon
pretending we are
dancing
Nothing is further from
the truth
21 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
173.
Her love
was a twisted linguistic nightmare
chasing
me through the afterlife
of narratives gone astray
21 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
174.
Now that we are warm
let memories
like snowflakes
Fall
Melting upon us
In our masquerading simplicity
22 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
175.
She was a house to me
Open door
Open windows
Broken furniture inside
for me to fall over
for her
again
22 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
176.
Inspiration is a slut
ready to surrender
to whomever will pay the price
Raped
rewards
screaming into the alley
as shadows applaud in salacious silent inspiration
Then jesus
wept
23 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
177.
I wish my dead family and friends
lovers too
could see how alive I am
now that I am not dead
like they so selfishly are
Never thinking about me
and the time’s we had
when we were non-dead
running through
life
in our dream like state
like I so often do now
24 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
178.
I thought we had found
Discovered
Intuited
the easy win in
Doors opening
Dead seas parting
Partying
Spotlights to the stage
pulsating
Whispers softened
Stillness personified
If we had not tripped
Fallen
Broken
@ the end
easily we could
would
should
have found
the
easy way in
27 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
Road Trip > Adelaide South Australia – OUTBACK – Cairns - Queensland
179.
Today was an extremely creative
Prosperous
Enlightening
Thrilling day
I wrote this
28 May 2021 Adelaide, Australia
180.
Missed another sunset
Day ended before chance changed
a part we could have played
Another fractured dream
scattered amongst galaxies
So simple to miss another sunset
and all that could have been
01 June 2021 Silverton, New South Wales, Australia
181.
Now I remember what I meant to say
when I walked out the door
so many decades ago
following times of love
Pain
Change
Doubt
Hopes
Dreams
Wishes
Mangled narratives
“don’t forget to turn off the lights as you slam forever shut the door on what was once all that of you I dare to remember”
Is what I mean to say
04 June 2021 Bourke, New South Wales, Australia
182.
So seldom settled
Changes
call
Charging
I respond
Each step forward
such a rush
There is no destination
No light at the end
Rest areas along the highway
nothing more than a place to piss
Urges propelling me
The flight
never the landing
is what I live for
always taking off
If tomorrow was yesterday
I would hide in fear of going back
I love this life
So seldom settled
06 June 2021 Cunnamulla, Queensland, Australia
183.
The great times we are having
become those we had have not
Had not
Crushing circles of life
only the dead have no wishes to do it again
Lucky them
07 June 2021 Rest Area (camping) 45 Ks North of Augathella, Queensland, Australia
184.
Tomorrow your birthday
I offered you the moon and stars
All you wanted was cake which I have none of
So I gave you the moon and stars
What a good gifter am I
07 June 2021 Rest Area (camping) 45 Ks North of Augathella, Queensland, Australia
185.
Unclassified experiences
Good bad
Indifferent
Explanations classified
Love desire wants wishes hope drownings
in a southernly windful mist
like with any psychedelic vortex thought
invades
prevails
we are left once again
with unclassified experiences
(luggage)
07 June 2021 (camping) Longreach, Queensland, Australia
186.
Frozen memories of us
naked in the mist
Melted in the morning sun
Like being de-friended on Facebook
11 June 2021 Camping in a paddock in the Outback - Prairie, Queensland
187.
I bond with inanimate objects
Shirts surf boards gods tofu shoes trains
They tell me stuff
Even how to exfoliate memories
(such as you walking out the door)
People lie
objects only slightly exaggerate
I watch my reflection in thrift-store treasures
smiling in lieu of truth
knowing they were once-upon-a-time
mine
always will be
unlike you
I bond with inanimate objects
12 June 2021 Charters Towers Caravan Park, Queensland, Australia
188.
Missing parts
Unsolved love
Mangled memories
Rodeo emotions
Out of sync sirens
Transcendent hope
Random mismatched electrical brain waves
Leaving me in such a desirous state
Spontaneously
12 June 2021 Charters Towers Caravan Park, Queensland, Australia
189.
I reframed my dreams
so your ghostly appearance would make sense
as you hacked my being
Crashed my essence
Scrambled our DNA
causing me to malfunction
into a reframed dream
of your creation
13 June 2021 Greenvale Caravan Park, Queensland, Australia
190.
I realized no one was reading my tweets
soon after walking out into the world
seeing everyone had died
in a nuclear-covid_pandemic- asteroid _crashing-climate_extinction event
but I continued to tweet
as if my life depended on it
14 June 2021 Greenvale Caravan Park, Queensland, Australia
191.
I am plagued by dreams of crocodiles
hunting me
in multilingual brothels
none of which I understand
Fondling nuns
laugh at me
Lovers weaponize their looks
torturing me with opaque desire
Sociopathic ex-wives laugh
as I bay at the moon
My narratives
have false conclusions
Being old
surely is the shits
14 June 2021 Ravenshoe Train Station, Queensland, Australia
192.
Mood swings
Tidal waves of feelings
Drowning in sunlight
Recycled oxygen in a vacuum
The scent of trouble
Sounds (murmurs) of resolution
Revolution of the subconscious leaking
(flooding)
Learning to swim
Mood swings
15 June 2021 Ravenshoe Train Station Campgrounds, Queensland, Australia
193.
Quiet camping in the Outback
Nature nightly farting
Animals hunting
Sexing
No snoring involved
A bit boring
Perhaps rain thunder lightening
would liven up the night
I turn off the night
Turn on my phone to shatter such silence
with a lovely bloody loud murder mystery
if only there had been a storm
the Outback would have been left alone to continue alone along in its non-destructive boredom
16 June 2021 Atherton War Memorial Campgrounds, Queensland, Australia
194.
We saw without looking
sang without hearing
The taste of you lingers
Dreams come and go
Memories morph
Wherever you go
I should have followed
We saw without looking
the future was never for us to bungle
but we did
June 2021 Atherton War Memorial Campgrounds, Queensland, Australia
195.
While listening to the voice within
a feral cat
proclaiming to be god
smudged
my perceptions of life
18 June 2021 Atherton War Memorial Campgrounds, Queensland, Australia
196.
There are over 7.5 billion drunken
would-be strangers
stumbling about
looking for a purpose for existence
No wonder the world
is fucked
18 June 2021 Ringers Rest Camping, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia
197.
Social media cowboys
crying
because there is nowhere to land
Crowd sourced cowgirls
too woke
to awaken
Old-school politicians
termites upon the land
If I knew what I was doing
Gone I’d be
18 June 2021 Ringers Rest Camping, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia
198.
In a death-defying act
I lived long enough
to be defying death
as the best explanation
for life
19 June 2021 Ringers Rest Camping, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia
199.
Slowed down attribution
following sequential pairing of ought
We are shadows in the mist
In the midst
Fast past
Pass me please
Dial me in as another synchronizing elite wantabe
because as slowed down attributions of change
Chance
No one notices
20 June 2021 Ringers Rest Camping, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia
200.
Love explodes
as desire untangles
the embers of change
20 June 2021 Ringers Rest Camping, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia
201.
Little doubt plays softly
Gleefully
Serenading potentiality
hiding in an alley
Nothing is suspected
Specifically
“isn’t love grand”
Ordinary challenges momentary’s hold on reality
Nothing is as doubt would have it ever again
22 June 2021 Mossman Pool and Caravan Park, Mossman, Queensland, Australia
202.
Perfect nonsense
created an ideal morning for me
to go crazy in
23 June 2021 Mossman Pool and Caravan Park, Mossman, Queensland, Australia
203.
Phase next
finally complete
Colours sounds aspirations
collectively mingled
breaking down dawn
showing a new direction
Though if I were a betting man
I would still avoid taking a chance on me
Now that this phase is finally over
24 June 2021 Lake Placid Tourist Park, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
204.
How wonderful waking next to you
Realizing you are not
she
who murdered me just now
in a dream of horrific portions
(blood dripping like tear drops over painful memories)
with no escape
but to wake next to you
24 June 2021 Lake Placid Tourist Park, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
205.
At the rate heroes are deceasing
only clowns will be left to escape
this circus we have created
as our monument to just another failed planet
drifting through space
looking for a time-space continuum
capable of producing heroes
to save our sorry assess
from the clowns we have become
26 June 2021 Lake Placid Tourist Park, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
206.
All my ghosts have reincarnated
as stray dogs barking and biting me
as I sell self-worth favours to the passing
mutilated multitudes mumbling
forgiveness
as if I was the last saint on earth
which no doubt I am
Now
since all my ghosts have incarnated as stray shadows of whom I once could have been and still may be if luck should rain on me
I am free
26 June 2021 Lake Placid Tourist Park, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
207.
She left me standing in the rain
@ high tide
Rivers of memory never forsaken
So thin the veil of yesterday
If only I could swim
I would smile once again
Standing here in the rain
29 June 2021 Babinda, Queensland, Australia
208.
Failure is a logical assumption of
misunderstood mechanics
A simple minute tinkering
can quickly make failure into an art forum
as I so often have demonstrated
in my life as a one-man show of unique failures personified
29 une 2021 Babinda, Queensland, Australia
209.
Dangling dangerous dance
spinning out of control
Such a fright to wake in a cold stance against such times of change
I had a friend who said he would never die I was the only one to believe him
as if there would never be another chance in this annoying dangling dangerous dance
where enough of my friend died (like his body) so long ago I have forgotten who he is
or why I believed enough to write all of this
30 June 2021 Babinda, Queensland, Australia
210.
Hints of understanding
made us into prophets of doom
celebrating our misunderstanding
that life should seem normal
when it no longer makes sense
30 June 2021 Babinda, Queensland, Australia
211.
The taste of love
hath no cure
but to keep the mouth closed when the taste so imagined is poison
disguised as love
June 2021 Babinda, Queensland, Australia
no one knew it was me making the universe queasy
from my screams of disillusionment swallowed by time
as I stood the test of time No one cared
I was so lucky today
June 2021 Babinda, Queensland, Australia
213.
So lucky to be here
rather than buried beneath
your love bleeding out hope
you would
remember me still
01
July 2021 Mission Beach,
Queensland, Australia
214.
@
The horrendous recital
love and hate
played a duet
making the audience shit in their
pants though the applause
gave a second
curtain call A memory
no one wanted
01
July 2021 Mission Beach,
Queensland, Australia
215.
I
stopped for a breather in childhood
All going so fast When I started
again
I was already in my seventies
I need to take a breather again
02
July 2021 Mission Beach,
Queensland, Australia
216.
I
had hoped my past would catch up to me
maybe even go right
on by Yesterday is gone
I am shit out of luck
02
July 2021 Mission Beach,
Queensland, Australia
217.
People looking
peculiar Acting strange
A lone drummer said she recognized me from a previous
existence
I had been a stray dog she had beaten to death I felt strangely sexually attracted to her
and had a migraine
due to her
inconsistent drumming
She blinded me with
her drumsticks
telling me to find someone else’s
dream to soil myself in
I am off now
There is a bagpiper waving to me Curing my confusion
and sense
of time
when waking
in other’s hopeless
dream
03
July 2021 Mission Beach,
Queensland, Australia
218.
I
traded places
with whom I could not be What an error
No one wants to be me hiding in my dismay
of who I could not be
03
July 2021 Mission Beach,
Queensland, Australia
219. I forgot
the next line
Otherwise
I would have had a complete
thought
03. July 2021 Mission
Beach, Queensland, Australia
220.
I
split the difference
between right and wrong
so no one would notice
03. July 2021 Mission
Beach, Queensland, Australia
221.
We didn’t realize how dark it was
until the roses stopped blooming Rain kept falling
Fires charred
all before it
Love evaporated
Chocolate melted
Animals laid down to die
Dinosaurs
reclaimed earth
Republicans took
over America
We didn’t realize
how dark it was
04
July 2021 Rollingstone, Vincent
Parker Park, Queensland, Australia
222.
If only I were a seed
blown away by seasonal
change
to grow and prosper
in a fertile dream
I would shed my
tears elsewhere
05
July 2021 Rollingstone, Vincent
Parker Park, Queensland, Australia
223.
What a startled world we live in
People gasping
Breathless
Overlooked
assumptions
How
did we get to this place
with
everyone so startled
06
July 2021 Rollingstone, Vincent
Parker Park, Queensland, Australia
224.
All the men stood
erect
with erections
as their karma
bent overfor applause
04
July 2021 Rollingstone, Vincent
Parker Park, Babinda, Queensland, Australia
225.
Again I
lost an argument with myself
Flushed away innocence
in morning’s
sugar-coated
elusive explosion
as I argue in the mirror
Losing once again
05
July 2021 Rollingstone, Vincent
Parker Park, Queensland, Australia
226. Happy birthday son
If only you had
not killed yourself 18-years ago
in case you were too
busy
being dead so long
on your birthday
06
July 2021 Townsville, Queensland, Australia
227.
Before dreams of you faded
Magical mystical moonlight memories
were turbulent seas
worthy our efforts of escape
Now that they have faded
I prefer to escape
Not dream
Not remember
Not live
07 July 2021 Town Hill Showgrounds, Queensland, Australia
228.
Listening to frogs
dancing in the night
lizards singing blues
birds lusting
Nature is so horny
tonight I may need to swim ashore before drowning
08 July 2021 Town Hill Showgrounds, Queensland, Australia
229. Simply so sensitive
Brain cells
colliding
We pass through space
finding temporary links
Adhering
magnetically mystery magic
merging randomness
So soon erased
Believing there is more to it all
because we are
simply so sensitive
we think life is real
09 July
2021 Bowen Palms
Caravan Park, Queensland, Australia
230. The reason I am so free
Because I learned to bounce
09 July
2021 Bowen Palms
Caravan Park, Queensland, Australia
231. @
the beach
Like any wildlife
I let night cover me
as once I did
the loves of my youth
Hiding us
Future proofing
before morning would make us visible
Vulnerable to the recklessness of a world
we had no intention of inheriting
@ the beach
Remembering life so grand
10 July
2021 Ball Bay, Queensland, Australia
232. Folks writing books
Lots of them
Woven stories
fantasy fabric factories
How do they find the time
who reads them
trees sacrificed
global warmest
$ changing hands
I am lucky to find time to write this
I am told I have all the time in the world
I don’t think so
Not enough time to finish this thought
Shit out of luck
11 July 2021 Ball
Bay, Queensland, Australia
233. God Part 1
I like to make commitments
I will not keep
Makes me feel like God
12 July 2021 Ball Bay, Queensland, Australia
234. God Part 2
I put my money on the wrong God
came in last
Now that I lost everything
they are all pissed @ me
12 July 2021 Ball Bay, Queensland, Australia
235. All those passing past mind-numbing
experiences
making us who we are
should be put on hold
for some other clown to experience
giving us a free slate
to fuck
up
12 July
2021 Ball Bay, Queensland, Australia
236.
It was a dark stormy fucked
up night
when reality and I divorced
Stoned Cassowaries cried “oh holy night”
I laughed with joy
What a delightful time we live in
Painted ladies offered me passion
for memories rusting in the wind
Due to my advancing amnesia
I traded without thought
Now I wander the dreamless landscape of my old-age
oblivious to the obvious
knowing I finally have achieved fucked up reality
those saints and gurus forever have promised
to the likes of me
13 July 2021 Ball Bay, Queensland, Australia
237.
As with any random thought
broken wings were in flight
What was created floated easily away
Chasing images possibilities
into wild seas
as
with any random thought
13 July 2021 Ball Bay, Queensland, Australia
238.
We melted away
as ice cream
in the noonday sun
Nevermore to be free
as ice cream
in the noonday sun
Flavoured memories
as ice cream
in the noonday sun
Our time together
as ice cream
in the noonday sun
The totality of life
as
ice cream
in the noonday sun
13 July 2021 Ball Bay, Queensland, Australia
239.
I forgot how sleepy I was
until you awoke me
reminding me
the world had ended
but I had not
So sleepy I was
Never
noticed
14 July 2021 Ball Bay, Queensland, Australia
240.
So much effort
Another goal achieved
Finally
the end of this sentence
14 July 2021 Ball Bay, Queensland, Australia
241.
My writing used to be dark
Ominous
Gloomy
Until I was blinded by the light
Now I cannot see to write anything
Murky
Foreboding
Depressing
14 July 2021 Ball Bay, Queensland, Australia
242.
Through multiple mistakes
Mishaps
Wrong turns
Faulty thinking
I
have embraced the creative perfection of the other way
15 July 2021 Ball Bay, Queensland, Australia
243.
The blank slate we are born with
becomes so full
we die
just to erase it
Making space
to
begin again
15 July 2021 Ball Bay, Queensland, Australia
244.
Strange sounds in the night
frighten the weary saleswoman
out to steal my soul
with a bargain none can refuse
until strange sounds
sets us free
anew
again
15 July 2021 Ball Bay, Queensland, Australia
245.
Oh Shit!
I got nothin’ to write
Words stab @ me
Tumour prose floods my unlit consciousness
Digital dreams cloud my judgement
Let the robotic poets replace us tired humans with nothing left to say
as we constantly chant mantras of nonsense
recognizing what we have to say is shit
16 July 2021 Town Hill – camping alongside highway, Queensland, Australia
246.
Statistically
76% nightmares without you
marginally tolerable
82% life without you
barely tolerable
91% I forget you left so long ago
life so liveable
17. July 2021 Campaspe River Rest Area, Homestead, Queensland, Australia
247.
Unaware of the/an endgame
seven billion of us
rush forward without a clue
of why
what
where
when
then
when the big quiet arrives
Arises
it will be as if we were never here
silence is the game
18 July 2021 Campaspe River Rest Area, Homestead, Queensland, Australia
248.
We made a mad dash to the border
No one was there
We danced
We sang
We escaped
Borders without people
What a perfect world
finally
This
has become
18 July 2021 Julia Creek, Queensland, Australia
249.
Especially concurrent tapestries
cover divergent waves of thoughts
streaming through impossible possibilities
making
for a most mysterious night
20 July 2021 Corella Dam, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
250.
Boxes of answers
waiting to be united with questions
providing explanations
for the undefeated
and
their defeated cohorts
20 July 2021 Corella Dam, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
251.
So easy to collapse into the past
Buried insights
Unworthy
to share
20 July 2021 Corella Dam, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
252.
You are the half of me
that gives the sunshine in my life
the warmth
for
me to chill in
21 July 2021 Corella Dam, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
253.
The wind blew disproportionally
as if caught in a symphonic accident
If meaning were virtualist
the pure of heart
would gently blow away too
I enjoy being the unsolvable problem
drifting through social media
meaninglessly
effortlessly
drastically out of character
performing absurdly
as the wind blows
disproportionally
21 July 2021 Corella Dam, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
254.
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21 July 2021 Corella Dam, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
255.
x
21 July 2021 Corella Dam, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
256.
x
21 July 2021 Corella Dam, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia