As we stumble
Like fools
Across
The dancefloor
I can’t help
But wonder
Who wants
This more
"All my life's buried here, heap earth upon it"
As we stumble
Like fools
Across
The dancefloor
I can’t help
But wonder
Who wants
This more
I know
That I can’t
Use booze
To cope
As I crawl
To throw up
My last vestige
Of hope
I’m glad that I
Went out tonight
And had myself
A jolly old time
I know it didn’t
Set alight
Your social life
But it certainly
Fired up mine
Thank the lord
Friday’s here
Time for a cig
And a soothing beer
As I know full well
When the weekend comes
It’ll be more time spent
In the doldrums
If only I looked
And felt okay
Then I’d be there
Without delay
But as it is
It’s been a pretty bad day
So I’ll stay in and wish
My life away
“You smile and I am lost for a lifetime…”
“Life…has been unfaithful”
The lighter’s scritch
Scratches the itch
Of yet another
Nicotine hit
So I flick the switch
And cross the stitch
On yet another day
I didn’t quit
“Love…
The kind you clean up with a mop and bucket”
“I make no apologies for how I chose to repair what you broke.”
– Meredith Grey
“But my heart, it won’t do babe
It won’t do, without you”
“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense…”
– Kafka
“There shouldn’t be this radio silence
But what are the options?”
“You cannot stir things apart”
– Thomasina
‘I guess I should have let you win…’
‘“In my world, I am constantly torn between killing myself or everyone around me.”
– Ragnar
‘I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Glasgow’
“People say they love you, but what they mean is they love how loving you makes them feel about themselves”
– Eli
“You know I’m tied to you
Like the buttons on your blouse”
“Watering down your pain so others feel less guilty is not being the ‘bigger person’.
It’s suppression. And it’s wrong.”
– Anon
‘Oh, how can I forget you?
When there is always something there to remind me…’
‘Sometimes I forget I’m still awake
I fuck up and say these things out loud…’
‘For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack’
– Rudyard Kipling
‘Well, the world turns…’
There was a naughty boy
And a naughty boy was he,
He ran away to Scotland
The people for to see–
Then he found
That the ground
Was as hard,
That a yard
Was as long,
That a song
Was as merry,
That a cherry
Was as red–
That lead
Was as weighty,
That fourscore
Was as eighty,
That a door
Was as wooden
As in England–
So he stood in his shoes
And he wondered,
He wondered,
He stood in his shoes
And he wondered.
Shaking cream on Christmas Day while listening to Mary of the Fourth Form by the Boomtown Rats
Playing record
my Christmas present
shaking cream
after turkey treat,
lid open, cream spills,
Dad’s jacket ruined
Dad’s temper flares
record broken
Terrible Christmas.
Dad’s Version
Turn music down
Awful hangover
Sean shake cream
I’m starving
What happened?
You’re sorry!
Jacket ruined
My Christmas present
That’ll teach you.
Terrible Christmas.
– Sean Hughes
I’m neither little
Nor quite charming
In fact my words
Can be most alarming
But the friends I’ve made
In different ways
All serve to brighten
My darkest days
So thanks to you all
For reading my shit
It warms this dark heart
Just a little bit
(Originally Posted 25.12.2020)
Eat, drink and be merry.
Or just drink.
I know I am.
(Originally Posted 25.12.2019)
I really
can’t be
arsed
today
I’d
rather
just stay
in bed
I’m not
in the
mood
For
such
jollity
Preferring
melancholy,
instead
(Originally Posted 25.12.2019)
“What is the bravest thing you’ve ever said? asked the boy.
‘Help’, said the horse.”
– Charlie Mackesy
‘When you’re used
Bruised
Black and blued
Don’t think about it
Never doubt it
I’ll walk beside you…’
“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
– Samuel Beckett
‘You don’t want me now
But I’m gonna change your mind
Someway, somehow, oh baby…’
“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of
weeping than you can
understand.”
– W. B Yeats
“You’ll never watch your life slide out of view…”
“Someone once asked me: ‘why do you love music so much?’ I replied: ‘because it’s the only thing that stays when everything and everyone is gone.'”
– Kid Cudi
“But I don’t really care how bad it hurts
When you broke me first”
“Think of your feelings as friends to be understood, not enemies to be fought.”
– Alan D Wolfelt
‘I will do better in the morning…’
“It seems to me, on reflection, that’s it’s not so as much what you do as what you mean.”
– Mr Perks
‘Who needs action when you’ve got words’
“The darkened space of The King’s Head downstairs room. Tuesday nights are set aside for poetry.
Every week they discussed the purpose of poetry in modern society, and every week they came to the same conclusion.
That poetry is enlightenment.
It’s questioning the norm, to try to find an understanding, to push forward ideas, to discover half truths, to open a forum for debate, to bring people together.”
– Sean Hughes
‘I’ll take you up to the highest heights
Let’s spread our wings and fly away’
“What you really want is someone you can hang around with on a Sunday afternoon and watch a TV show with, and do nothing, and feel like it’s the most fun ever.”
– Aziz Ansari
‘Love is a losing game
One I wished I never played
Oh what a mess we made…’
“and we didn’t love each other
but we helped each other forget
that life is shit”
– Sean Hughes
‘All my tears have been used up
On another love….’
“People think that I’m sort of okay, you know, like I’m getting on with it. I’m snarky now and again and that this is the lapse – but it’s not. This is me all the time now.
Everything else is the fun, you know.
I’m not well, but I remember what it was like to be normal so I do an impression of that. But this is what I really am. And I want to be normal again. But I’m weak, you know.”
– Tony
‘So I’ve made my mind up
I must live my life alone
And though it’s not the easy way
I guess I’ve always known
I’d say goodbye to love…’
‘Y’all don’t wanna hear me, you just wanna dance…’
“Stop breaking yourself down into bite sized pieces to serve others. Stay whole and let them choke.”
– Anon
‘You are my new inspiration…
My muse
And I mean that not as a compliment’
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
– Aldous Huxley
For Sale
Your house isn’t the problem.
You are.
(Originally Posted 30.09.2020)
I’d love to say
That two years on
That I have cleaned up my act
But from what I suffered
My body never recovered
And my mind will always be cracked
Old Habits
As my
veins
drip
with
chip
fat
And
my
lungs
marinate
in
tar
I
wonder
if,
perhaps
this
time,
I’ve
taken
things
too
far
(Originally Posted 28.09.2020)
“Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.”
– Oscar Wilde
“And so, I checked all the registered historical facts
And I was shocked into shame to discover
How I’m the 18th pale descendant
Of some old queen or other”
‘Tis better to be lowly born,
And range with humble livers in content,
Than to be perked up in a glist’ring grief,
And wear a golden sorrow.’
Henry VIII: Act II Scene III
‘You want it
You’ve got it
You took it all from me
My cheque book, my wallet
My pride and dignity…’
‘Some things are more important than ability’
Advert for a young guitar player, NME, 1989
“Oh but Glasgow gave me more
Than it ever took away
And prepared me for life on the road”
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