Woke up this morning  and checked my status logged onto the web To check my pulse See what’s happening posted an update Blogged about the state of my sleep By the time I’ve trawled through All my emails Responded to everyone else Tweeted about how tired I am and how come I never seem to [...]

Last Fish In the Ocean . It’s closing time The lights are flashing we’re the last two fish Swimming in this ocean Think I’ll cast out a line See if you bite I’m diving deep for someone tonight . You’re The last fish in the ocean The last catch of the day The last chance [...]

Bronze BMW Lookin’ in the rearview And I saw you In a bronze BMW Puttin’ on your lipstick At the change of the lights Your lips shining with pink spotlights And we got the go as things changed to green And I lost that shade of pink In the afternoon traffic And I thought – [...]

Deja Vu July 15 2010 ©Paul J Penton [part of the July song a day challenge!] I’ve got a feeling this has happened before That somehow we’ve spoken But I just can’t think where memory is playing time shifting tricks ‘cause I feel like we’ve had conversations like this It might be my imagination that [...]

Looking for Mr Perfect-Demo 5 May 2009 © 2009 Penton She’s been chasin’ Mr Perfect for almost all her life love’s come and gone been lost and won – she’s ain’t nobodies wife her bio-bomb is tickin’, she’s almost had her run she knows she’d better find him soon – or it’s over and done [...]

Time It’s my observation in our consumer driven world that the one thing we want can’t be bought and that’s time. Now when we were kids it seemed there was oceans of it it was all about filling in ‘time’ finding ways to alleviate the boredom games of cricket or football any sort of game [...]

Sliding doors As I’m gliding down Chapel Street on smooth layers of ashphalt past beggars looking vacant and two dollar shops looking vibrant past the factory seconds place where  a bloke is having trouble removing his security screen As I’m gliding each shop I pass that has  a door of sliding glass that opens beside [...]

Tiles A disused shop paint peels off of tiles that have been painted over Newspapers cover the windows yesterdays news covering up the history of failure Pastries beguiling pastries glossy shells covering twisted dough shining fruits in red and yellow seem to glow with the innocence of sunshine Kinsgwood Looking inside a worn out Kingswood [...]

Hummer boys A couple of gay boys emerge from a hummer perfect black boots black pants On a mission to get some sort of accoutrement from a specialist store just near where I’m sitting five minutes they’re gone then they swan back and join the jolting traffic Road works and beautifications causing mayhem on the [...]

Sushi Emporium Christmas tree lights flash in the window of a sushi emporium California rolls dressed in bands of seaweed terriyaki chicken cooked tuna raw salmon 2.40 a go the rice is sticky the soy sauce salty there’s humming in the background from a drinks machine I’m tearing at the skin with my gnashers hot [...]