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Thursday 30 April 2020

napowrimo 2020 #30


WHO IS THE THEY
Foolish as things may be
difficult as everything is
how I wish that my wish
about you could come true
hey that life would
be easy someday

However the weather
put paid to all that
seventy six was very very hot
but not as hot as
April twenty twenty
or so the they say

Who are the they
spouting it out
who are the they
shouting from the rooftops
who are the
great unwashed they
who are the
unbleached grey they
who are the jet black they
who are the
all shades of hades they

Foolish as things may be
difficult as everything is
how I wish that my wish
about you could come true
hey that life would
be easy someday

What say you man
give us yer dosh
check that
check back later
check

However the weather
put paid to all that
seventy six was very very hot
but not as hot as
April twenty twenty
or so the they say

Who is the they
who is the they
or so the they say
30042020

Wednesday 29 April 2020

napowrimo 2020 #29 coronavirus 31


LOCKDOWN
The lunatics are running the asylum
Trumpington and Twopence
have no cents sense

The trouble is we're all locked in
locked up

Lockdown not in my town
I'd rather be locked in the pub
drinking beer
whisky
vodka lemonade

But I'm afraid

The lunatics are running the asylum
King Karloff with his brand new prince

Nicola Fish
Haggis dish
cover yer kite in public

In Singapore they're building more
hospitals for the rich and poor
'cos they're expecting a second wave
of Coronavirus on their shores

Rub-a-dub-dub three men in a pub
and how do you think they got there
through the back door
where they pulled up a chair
the doctor the vicar the undertaker
smoking cigars supping boilermakers

The trouble is we're all locked in
locked up

Lockdown your town too
and the lunatics are running the asylum
29042020

Tuesday 28 April 2020

napowrimo 2020 #28 coronavirus 30


BEFORE THE PANDEMIC
his world was made of whopping great lies
under the blanket he had cupboards full of them
tin cans rusting at the base sugar and flour stuck to the shelves
huge puddles the shape of England eating holes in the floor
stacks of bills for electricity and gas that he never used
I went to his house once about a week before the pandemic
about a month before he jumped off the bridge
It took me a while to find his place hidden deep in the forest as it was
I spent the day with him and he asked me what day it was nearly twenty times
somewhere under the bed he kept all of his secret things
way down in his inner consciousness below the concrete floor of his mind
was a perfect memory of all that he had seen and done
for people like me who found this hard to comprehend
he said the brain is just for thinking but the memory is where it's all at
that was the only time that I met him
I was happy to get out of there before the lockdown started
it all went pear shaped not long after that
28042020

Monday 27 April 2020

napowrimo 2020 #27 coronavirus 29


ALL THAT FAKE NEWS
The further you come the harder you fall
whatever happened to Trumpingtons wall

You really believe that love comes easy
you download the app to your dog an' bone
you're so naïve so don't try to please me
I got your number right here on my phone

Don't listen to everything they tell you
they wind you up with misinformation
the situation should not make you blue
all that fake news and intimidation

King Karloff's come back from his country gaff
everything's rosy Downing street's cosy
no news from the front no reason to laugh
thinking of Lagos and of Nairobi

Whatever happened to Trumpington's wall
the harder they come the further they fall
27042020

Sunday 26 April 2020

napowrimo 2020 #26 coronavirus 28


THE SUNDAY PAPERS
Anti-body tests on stream dreamers dream beware
care homes hospices in our own homes who's counting
the dead they now forecast will be forty grand or more
support the lockdown defeat the virus
they're treating us like children the hot press screams

In Scotland we will be adult about this says Nicola Fish
the skies are blue bluer than they used to be
no haze today in this post production society of ours
no work no trains no cars go home you're barred

The Brexit backstop silly mid on has gone
they talk about the backdrop now what
ease the backdrop and all that clap trap trot
a public inquiry into all this palaver and
the way King Karloff handled this mess

Then there's this ding-a-ling with a telephone thing
I'm paranoid about the app to make it work
80% would have to download it
it's not an app it's a tracker and
a tracker is a trap that you don't want to fall into
oh it's okay phew because it's the NHS
that are planning to get this on stream
it's a testing and tracing app to save lives

Really do you believe what the Sunday papers say
Opt in to the anonymity of multiple countries
knowing where you are and what you're thinking
what you're doing and who you are talking to
I know what I think about that hows about you

It's easy with hindsight to say where things went wrong
to sing the Blame the culture blame the future song

Blame the present blame the past
blame the teacher blame the pupil
blame the widow blame the spinster
blame the Vatican blame Westminster

The political elite blame the scientists
for what they don't know but what they
don't know is that the scientists don't know
the truth is that no one knows and
the bottom line is we're facing the unknown

The trouble with the trouble is we have to stay at home
don't mix outside the bubble stay at home (drone drone)
save lives (I'm all for that) protect the NHS

However whatever happened to the promised PPE
the GMB and the TUC are still waiting to hear
meanwhile the stuff that we produce is being
sent elsewhere while we wait (sometimes in vain)
for basic stuff that's on a plane across the pond
who said if you buy cheap you (buy) suffer twice

Sunday brunch at the OK Coral
with Soul Power and the morality bunch
Yo-yo and the see-saw diet
die if you don't diet die if you do
who can you trust if the given must
is to ask you for money and more

Let your requests be known unto God
take care of the pennies and the pounds will fall off
or not as maybe or for a short while and
then you'll get fat again or fatter still but
the dollars will take care of themselves
26042020

Saturday 25 April 2020

napowrimo 2020 #25 coronavirus 27

BEETROOT SPAGHETTI
Covid-19 and all of that virus
Harry and the haberdashers of flash
never had it so good lay low furlough
papyrus poppycock and balderdash

Trumpington went up Capitol Hill
to fetch some disinfectant
the fool fell down the joke rebounds
amid much peals of laughter

Beetroot spaghetti and cornflake confetti
with cold stirred fried rice make something quite good
to chuck at the bride at her wedding day brunch
but there's owt for nowt in the lunch time steaks

They cook their own on their burner phones
with the red hot potato of HS2
the farcical social distance express
of parliament having returned from recess

They launch their new thingy into infinity
only to watch it crash into the night
King Karloff's website and all his henchmen
couldn't book tests for the nation again
25042020

Friday 24 April 2020

napowrimo 2020 #24


THINKING OF THE CITY
Fanny said she wanted to play scrabble
picked up her cue and made a hundred break
The Riddler said scrabble is for rabble
Batman and Robin and that kind of freak

She shivers like crazy hates nudity
He shoots a double whammy towards her
She looks away thinking of the city
but the rotor lifts then sticks in her fur

If I had a relation in this town
she thinks I could beat that boo boy Riddler
equip me with a crib and dressing gown
paste him to the roof and call him fiddler

Like a jig-saw puzzle with missing tiles
central to her life another locus
she negates the future and walks for miles
putting the hex on his hocus pocus

Acre arcing she completes her mileage
crossing the diode bridge to Washington
pushing The Riddler into the silage
of his own mind the smell starts wafting down

She wished she could be gored by someone's horns
and vault into the ether not been born
24042020/Prompted by El Cashew

Thursday 23 April 2020

napowrimo 2020 #23 coronavirus 26


SAVE LIVES
When the smoke detector on the ceiling
looks like an alien staring at you
it probably is

Venus and Mars
were never like this

Stay at home
protect the NHS
from your vain imaginations

What came first
the seed or the plant
the cod or the roe
the man or the woman
the sun or the earth
whose nose knows who

Hard chicken comes from
hard boiled eggs
broken eggs make
omelette and frittata

Is a baton a thing to hit people with
or a lump of French bread
make your own

Stay at home
protect the NHS
save lives
23042020

Wednesday 22 April 2020

napowrimo 2020 #22


SEAPLANE PIXEL
In the belly of the ship
or the whale or the fish
diving in the deep end

Squirming digging for
worms deep deep down
in the belly of the ship
what yacht have you got

Saturday's are like that too
who knows what time they close
who knows what time they close

Deep deep down in
the belly of the whale
or the belly of the fish

What fish cod 'n' chips
what chips potato fries
what fries open your eyes
what eyes mince pies

What pies pork pies
more pies for your
bread and honey
keep your money
don't tell me lies

What's your name
Please Explain
22042020

Tuesday 21 April 2020

napowrimo 2020 #21


FASHION
Dandelion blue
Fashion on the internet
Blog blogging de blog
21042020

Monday 20 April 2020

napowrimo 2020 #20 coronavirus 25


LIES MORE LIES
Mundane Monday the government
spokesman chokes he's another mug
he screams and shouts it out
we have been guided at all times
he cries lies more lies to cover up lies

blinded by science scientific advisors
don't blame the dog that guides you
hark at him barking up his own tree
there is a better way to live these days
without lies more lies to get by

for he knows not what we want
or how to separate the need from the greed
whatever happened to the PPE
I saw them squirming on the BBC
lies more lies to cover up more lies

Who's the lady with Mundane Monday
dressed much the same as yesterday
she smiles and everything seems fine
from Mannamead to Mutley Plain
for her to cover up lies with more lies

Boys and girls husbands and wives
stay home protect the NHS save lives
blast it from the rooftops baby
political lies surprise more lies
Mutley Plain is much the same
20042020

Sunday 19 April 2020

napowrimo 2020 #19 coronavirus 24


DUFF GOODS AND DEMI-GODS
Governments determine the statistics
the madness of all these logistics

They try not to lie - misled themselves
misleading us now telling us the lies
that they were told by their own demi-gods
King Karloff - Unsure Macron - Trumpington

Angry as angry people always are
our health depends upon us being cool
foolish as it may well seem from afar
bar con men making us some kind of fool

Relying on a shipment of duff goods
essential PPE from Antioch
misleading us - misled - this great mistake
it's something we can make on our home shores

The madness of all of these logistics
governments determine the statistics
19042020

Saturday 18 April 2020

napowrimo 2020 #18 coronavirus 23


CORONAVIRUS PERSONIFIED
We've spoken about the word world war before
what comes next and what to do for best
when they thought we'd won world war one
another fifty million or maybe more died
the following year from the Spanish flu
What ever are we going to do
when we all start dropping like flies too
things were never like this before
four five six or maybe more perhaps
Vivid dreams with nothing to cling to
screaming into the primordial soup
indifferent as rapid eye motion
past conditional responses up front
Infectious as genetic disorders
congenital imperfections undone
mysterious happenings de rigueur
Thought projection now you're talking
literally virtual reality
psychoanalysis self harming
Scientific academic failure
antibody immunity vaccine
vaccination inconsideration
illness coronavirus personified
18042020

Friday 17 April 2020

napowrimo 2020 #17 coronavirus 22


THE SAME CLAP-TRAP
Can't believe the way they lie
don't answer innocent questions
couldn't run school dinners
let alone a pandemic exit

Where are the testing kits
where is the PPE
who is that bloke on the TV
telling lie after lie

The other guy stands there gurning
like a troglodyte gives the game away
with his body language when he speaks
it's just more of the same clap-trap

It's a political football but
none of them know the off side rule
they're kicking in different directions
and scoring nothing but own goals

The minister for whatsisname takes
a pot shot and hits the corner flag
the journalist shouts penalty but the ref
says no and boots the ball over the stand

They're way out of order and lying
through their broken teeth pity that
there's no dentists to go to right now
try the barbers sorry they're closed too

What are we going to do who are we
going to trust in these dark dark days
lockdown locked out for another
twenty one days and then a review

Reprieve maybe for the chosen few
but who's going to get the antidote first
the vaccination situation let's hope
the boffins can get it right

A big hand for the Doctors and Nurses
the genuine ones in all this mess this
coronavirus war keep calm stay home
relax don't forget support the NHS
17042020

Thursday 16 April 2020

napowrimo 2020 #16 coronavirus 21


SOMETHING IN THE AIR
Before computers were king
and took away our jobs
they say that there was
something in the air 

Once we didn't need face masks
to protect Joe Public from us
and our coronavirus
don't breath on me John
where's your surgical thing

When we invented things
built the first train
laid the first tracks
who sewed the buttons
on the trousers by hand

When the chimney stacks
rose up three floors above
the cotton mills down there
and the crowded canals were
the highways of their day

Before the first telephone rang
and television ruined our lives
and turned our children into
people we didn't recognise

Before artificial intelligence
social distancing and the
silent killer in the secret room
before robots walked the earth
and the virus came to cull us
16042020