Just a tick

life's a surd*
    irrational
full of pi
    and we
hurried before dish
    snatched
as if out of mid-air
    smacking lips
vainly
     ill-at-ease
proof's in size of it
    says i
certainly absurd
    real experience
arrives from
    eyes nose ears
tongue touch
    worldly sensations
if we attend
    so don't believe
any cerebral by-blow
    of specious origin
if we give it a thought
    tis unutterably bedight
and incontinent

when you can feel onset
    pervasive bellyful of blah
oh my    oh my
    deny lip-service
simply believe
    ideal entity    bah
stems from rational root


lea mmx+ii

*def.

hey hey ize a sick ol man

hey hey ize a sick ol man
ain no use t poutn frown
whan ize deed tiz frum i'm cum
hey hey tiz ho nonny nonne

hey hey whan ize feelin sore
hurtin bad n wurse in store
taint az if ize like afore
tiz hey ho an let it go

hey hey wotz up cumz darn
skinny az rope an wun end gone
slobberin lips n teeth undone
hey hey tiz ho nonny nonne

hey hey whan sun had played
sky thru leaves az newly made
spring haz went and summerz blew
hey hey aint here t stay

hey hey dis'n my turn too
hey hey twere well-a-day
wot wunce were close now far away
nobuddy scapes nut me nut you

hey nonny nonne n lost fer wurds
write yer owen obit tiz fun fer free
fill it wi trills like singin birdz
hey nonny now tiz orl frum me


laurie ashton aug mmx+i

Tich Backhouse: hiz sayso

Me ize missen
nut nobuddy else
ober wurld roun
nah nor twixt crak
whar anomalese dwell
tis i tich   no swell
nor yer reglar labrin lot
wot bends t menial wheel
fer pifflin spondulix

natch ize wun up on dat
born wid finger t nose n cheek in tongue
idle sot   so be u sniffs
tiz i tich employer o sel
printer n purveyor
o filosofical tracks   otiose broadsides
n literatchure airin unwashed linen in public
plus bills fer whar u stix no bills
delivery on skadoodle
t be found tween handles o me wheelbarry
patrollin byrne road
convenient t hostelry fer sake o bendin arm
usually restin on me hernia

haha u thinks tis snivellin objet o derishun
i bin sneered at be better'n you

yus when i wuz bankcrypt
orl sincet me landlady bad cess
boughten me out under me nose
preshush debentyerz went pff
an i nexit on hunkers
shamefaced afore domainearring
xemplar f rules whar i hellocated atween lines
nixed pleadin fer doleful scrip

ah yus   sincet f no account
donut count me in r out
cos i iz wot i iz
sweet genevive me genius
just same az missen
wot wafts on contra-airy pinions
speshully wid blissful tankard
o blacksmit harms best brew in me mitt
an rises t necesity f yuze hearkenerz
stannin height o full four foot six an a bit
blushfully declaimz
tis orl me eye n betty martin
tarrah

Tich  hiz sayso
oct mmxx+i

Infinity is a long stretch

Infinity is a long stretch
like a grin from ear to ear
you see the joke?
make believe!
might as well be near as far
quodlibet from thin air