and mary in her corner

AND MARY IN HER CORNER
PERCHED BEFORE HER USUAL
READING OUT ALOUD
FROM HER WATCH TOWER
BITS OF PLANE CRASH TRAIN CRASH
PARTS OF TIDAL WAVE CHICKEN WAVE
METEORITE DISASTER.
...Telling
how she once did hands
in a dish advert
how she nearly once did feet
in a shoe show.
HOW ONCE
UPON A COUNTRY ROAD
WAS IN SURPRISING TOUCHSPEAK
WITH THE ALIENS
WITHIN AMAZING WINGSPAN
OF THE ANGELS.
...Then can you tell me, she asks,
throught the thick, how far forty mile is, Mick,
and if not that, Pat,
then what kind of fruit you get
from the coconut mat.

exercise one

a natural athlete

suffering greatly
from hat trick nail hazard
from jump quick
jym slip

roger
hand cranked
and still standing
wonders if lovely lucy
in her lace in her black
will rent him for money
certain bits of
herself

i've seen your photograph
he'd say
you certainly are
a natural athlete

My Dada Hero's. Number Four. Spike Milligan.
"I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare,
but then I thought, why should I, he never reads any of mine."

dada is.

a conflict between the confused
and bemused
over a supposed unsatisfactory painting
of a local saviour
(The Blank and Blameless King after the Blockage)
and it's suggested lack of dash
and dazzle
especially in the halo and levitating department

("my god,
you've got his feet in slippers")

as painted in by
an organisation of vain and handsome
artists.

close your eyes and throw.

Dada Sayings.

"From now on I'm going to be
the kind of idiot I want to be."
Bruce Willis. Death Becomes Her.

My Dada Hero's.
Number Six.
Homer Simpson.

"This donut has purple in the middle, purple is a fruit."

My Dada Hero's.
Number Five.
David Ike.

"I am the Son of God."

Prize.

You could win a prize

by demonstrating an improper use for
a common household appliance. By complicating
(in a terrible temper) a simple wiring system
by a sudden exposure to a domestic acid.
You could win a prize by filming
your flimsy sister as she dances wildly
upon a tiny cotten ocean. By rating paintings according to
their ability to stem the flow of common leaks.
You could win a prize
by arranging in some convenient niche
as though they were objects of great devotion
or perhaps the belongings of a saint
an alter of everyday objects such as doorknobs,
salt cellars, makeup brushes, cups.
You could win a prize by unclearly photographing
foggy mornings, fishermen, cats, women in hats,
and various crimes of a similar seriousness.
You could win a prize by inventing a tool
that saved all snipped off endings
in a suitable container. You could

win a prize

some preferences.

some preferences.
1. handmade mornings.
2. finding a surprising handle.
3. controls that allow me easily,
and when needed, to skillfully operate a whale.
4. a friend that can recommend a cheap vice.
5. never springing a leak.
6. handmade drainage.
7. unexpected ponds.
8. monuments of extinct footballers, planted in a field,
being ridiculed roughly by a large group of gay young shop girls.

ways of remembering food. number one. "billy smart, strawberry tart."

ways of remembering food
number two: "three and six,
cake mix."

And I dream that
daily
I suffer from
foal quiver,
aquatic stalls,
falls
of blistered puddle,
ruddle fake,

vivid click, hits
from deadly night stick,

bloody hell, I really
am, a mistake

an unfortunate out-take. "AND SOMETIMES
WE GIVE TO MUCH IMPORTANCE
TO THE MEANING OF A THING
AND NOT ENOUGH TOO THE STUDY
OF IT'S SIMPLE PATTERN."

"it's a fine line between rubbish and garbage."

Wedding.

Stood
in a windy car park
dressed
in a revealing kilt
my grandfather stands clutching
to his chest
a struggling chicken.

With its head in his mouth
and its two thin legs tucked under an arm
he is pretending to play
the bagpipes.

Years later, my mother said,
that right after this photo was taken,
my grandfather ate his button-hole
(a carnation)

and the hole bus laughted. FOR THREE DAYS FOR THREE NIGHTS
MAN HELD AT KNIFE POINT
TOLD TERRIBLE KNOCK KNOCK JOKES.

telescope envelope

though they didn't have
the room, the money
or the weather for it
his young ambition
was to make looking up
his full time occupation

in fact
his father
a close relation
was already talking about
putting a sky light in SUNNY AFTERNOON.

PHONED DEAN BUT ONLY GOT HIS ANSWERING MACHINE
FIFTEEN MINUTES OF THE KINKS.

The Wise Fat Vet Falls Over Perhaps.

Between six and nine
he reads Saint Einstein
disputes bitterly with his butler
the supposed straightness
of any straight line
Claims to be He
the long lost cousin of
The Lone Ranger, ghostwriter
to Mister Sherlock Homes, inspiration
behind Cutlers songs behind Milligans poems
Maintains, that he is the fresh green rain
that drenches wet the limp
geography, that soaks soundlessly
the ancient monument built there
invisibly, upon the creators hot soup
And the stories we make up
in order to mask us
finally measure us
FIVE OF THE PEOPLE READING THIS ARE AFRAID OF FIFTIES FORMICA FURNITURE
OF WET STRING OF BING'S CHRISTMAS THING

doodle@day. disgraced bridge engineer accused of using duck tape. it was only temporary, he tells judge.

doodle@day.

Supplimentary Information.

The giraffe and the gipsy
glide gracefully over
a glaze
of glassy convention.

All social occasions
in order to be fully enjoyed
need a certain amount of indelicate
probing.

Remember.
Your Grandmother was also once
in her playful youth
a hullabaloo,
a hoot of a hussy.