Humps for 400 Yards

 

Your love gave me temporary

immunity from insanity

When you left me

it split my personality

and now my body is finally

catching up

 

My left cheek

is twit-twit-twitching

It's twitched so much

that it's ended up

on the right hand side of my face

Now I have two cheeks on one side

and none on the other

I look positively Cubist 

 

The Man put out the bushfire

that had been raging in my eyebrows

but alas too late to save

the family of sparrows

that had been nesting there

 

Here

Have a hank

of my lank and greasy hair

It's coming out in handfuls

You can pull it from the plughole

of the damned and the dead

 

I look and I feel

a richt dirty wee scunner

like an octogenarian

long distance runner

 

My head

is coming loose

at the moorings

I might have to unscrew it

and replace it

with a bayonet

 

 

...there must be something wrong

with my eyes and ears

I can't believe anything

that I see or hear

When did folk become cruel?

So full of hate and bile?

I'm goin' oot on ma wee scooter

and I may be gone awhile

 

B.R. 09/08/2015

 

Photo by B.R.