Dad manned a Pom Pom gun in the Navy, scanning the skies for the enemy. He and his compatriots would engage a Focke-Wulf or a Stuka that would howl down from the grey. They’re called Pom Pom guns because that’s the sound they make as they pummel the air in an exercise yard drill. Bullets [...]

You know those side show rides like the ‘gravitron’ , where you start out flat and it spins and gets faster and turns on its side and you’re pinned against the wall spinning at multi miles per hour almost out of control, well that’s what jealousy’s like . It takes over, it pins you against [...]

Losing faith, no more solid ground. Belief displaced, silence the only sound. Waiting, hoping for an answer. How long, you gonna wait? Save yourself find your absolution save yourself don’t need no religion So many saviours, which path do you go down? Who do you believe in? Is it time to do your own thinking? [...]

When you say that you don’t want me the way I do. I don’t want to listen, ’cause I’m a lovestruck fool. I keep hoping that you’ll see things the way I do. Only time will tell if my dream can come true. Sometimes, it all seems so far away, but I’ve got to keep [...]

Well it’s late in the evening, and the birds have stopped singing, and I can’t help but thinking, I need you. Well my body is achin’, from the love we’re not makin’. I can’t be mistaken I need you When I’m down on my feelings, and my memory’s reeling, I wish someone would come and [...]

I’m losing control of emotion, I feel all adrift in the ocean being taken to sea, by the flow around me, Taking me to my evolution. I’m losing control of direction, and nothing can stop me from heading Into the abyss, into the unknown and I’m losing control of emotion. Now I’m beginning again now [...]

It almost always seems to be one of the first things you add – whether it be Italian or Indian, it’s very cosmopolitan. Garlic is the wick that set’s off a bomb of taste in any dish you might wish to make. They sit over by the fridge, in an open faced platter, the domes [...]

Greg was talking about his neighbour He’s ‘s from Ethiopia or somewhere- Sudan Big strapping man He sits out the front of the flats/apartments Stands on the corner looking at the Indians across the road Defiantly He won’t let the Turkish bloke turn around his Valiant He goes out a couple of times a night [...]

In a caravan outside a misty office I had been called for musician duties You were looking uncertain a grey northern light filtered in through the curtain I wasn’t sure, but that caravan seemed more like a food van you know selling hot dogs and pies The last I knew he was happily married a [...]

Satisfaction has a pleasing geometry to it, it’s like somebody just built that thing just ‘right’. The pieces have been put together correctly. It seems to taste like one of those home cooked roast dinners where the potatoes were just crispy enough and the gravy had just the right amount of pan juices to give [...]