Those we need now are warrior artists, poets with the hearts of urban guerrillas, who know how to create and fight in equal measure; who understand Che’s dictum that revolution is an act of love; who can also use Musashi’s teaching that the pen/brush must be held in balance with the sword. For we are […]
Tag: Ungagged Poetry
Red Raiph Writing
Poetry Raiph’s Alfybet A poem fur a Inorgerayshun You can see Ralph’s Ungagged Art here
Roy Møller Writing
Poetry Seaside Perimeters Hot Desk First We Take Manhattan
Hot Desk
Hot desk, commandeered, I’ll man you like a cannon on a flight deck, folding, or a guard to take over as hours itch like busbies overheating. Hot desk – I make my slow beginning, dispersing fast food discarded by another facing down the jaws of a deadline. Shared PC – you’re sluggish this lunchtime so […]
Perimeters
Perimeters work at my innards from the edge – of sodium shrubs and the lit-up hedge of the morbid peripheral road. Perimeters wrap sick halos above them, around them silent snow’s undercut by the hum of a huge freezer. Perimeters stab barbed embroidery on faded fabric of undone ordinary outskirts while concentric circles of […]
Seaside
We’ve all weathered blustery seaside in the company of people we no longer talk to because of loss or one of our choices. That’s what the waves hit the sea wall for.
CREATE YOUR OWN SYSTEM
Is it just me or does the shit seem to flow one way? Holy Thursday into Black Friday And who’ll clear out the gutters in your 2.3 million pound terraced house in Peckham Rye? You know, when push comes to shove. Maundy Monday and someone let a fart go on the cattle-train transporting us from […]
Fuck You very Much
(Written for Memorial Day 2015.) to all those whose idea of patriotism is sending out young people to die trying to kill other young people trying to kill them: FUCK YOU. to all those more concerned with the profits and interests of corporations than the cost of permanent war on individual humans and societies […]
Silence Like A Roar
This is for all of those among us who knew the world was strangely out of synch And despite that fact still tried to find a way to love, to live, to think It’s for those who sought to see beyond and were dismissed and made unsure Yet still identified the sickness and gifted us […]