• The Fundamental Things Apply for Senor Aragones
    You must remember this A smile is not a smile, A joke is not a joke, A kiss is not a kiss, The fundamental things apply As time goes by – So much of contemporary Europe Still comes straight from the Crusades, And a Christian maritime imperialism, An acquisitive, inquisitorial imperialism That divides the world […]
  • Thanks Paul ( for Paul Cannoville)
    When the Windrush docked at Tilbury, In that post-war world of austerity, And furtive glances from behind net curtains, Men in 50 shilling suits from Burtons, You knew about the smoke and fog, But not “No Blacks, Irish or dogs”, And like noble trees in a rushing wind, You faced that choice – to stand, […]
  • Paradise Lost and Regained in 4 days
    Just as Confusion sat enthroned upon the Tower of Babel, So I sat in a bar named Paradise, at a formica table, Watching Chelsea’s football match against the team from Brum, Befuddled by the commentary which was oddly Norwegian; And just as Satan left Hell for cold Chaos’ void, So I too quickly quit the […]
  • Elegy Written in a Country Campsite
    Stuck in a rain-swept tent, I read in the newspaper, “I think we are moving into the era of the team, as opposed to the era of the star”, Clap-trapped Rick Parry, of Liverpool F.C., As though unsung heroes were a thing of fickle fashion, Rather than a constant reminder of life’s inequalities, Just like […]
  • Coca-Cola’s Sponsorship.
    It’s the end of dignity, the end of honour. Working for the Yankee dolour.