Flickering iridescent tube lighting brought the empty computer room to life as the students filed in. Lazily pulling out chairs, turning on the desktops , yawning, chatting, filling the room with low levels of noise. Stuart looked from the front desk at the 11 teenagers, dressed in their uniforms though trying to resist the uniformity….
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Cogito, Ergo Sum
The dinner party was a success, the guests dined on several beautiful courses exquisitely crafted while savouring wines paired for each dish until the finish where coffee and bandy were served. In turn each of them discussing their favourite topics. The movie star talking about her most glamourous role, the author chatting whimsically about her…
Cancer For The Cure
Disease ripped through his body, the arteries ached, muscles spasmed tremoring against the skin. Mindlessly undulating and rippling under the fine veneer of pink flesh, it kept coursing through in waves faster and faster with each quickening heartbeat. Blood weeping from every orifice, covered him in streaks of red mingled with the stench of shit…
Flag Shagging
You’ve taken the national Union Jack,Elevated it with hate and bluster,The people rise and follow back,Your zombie hordes ready to muster.Clinging to your every silken word,Captivated by your prodigious charm,Craven absurdity beyond absurd,Feeding on blood-soaked rhetoric’s harm.They sway to propaganda’s enticing song,Dancing merrily, emptied eyed.Seeking to only “just belong”With their allegiance rectified.the trumpets call and…
Vapid Mess
What vapid mess do I behold,Etched deep on recessed mirrors plane,Sanctimonious reflection if truth be toldA darkening of the light of day.Shadowed image of my former selfA corruption of what I once wasThat picture of perfect mental healthLacking reason or just because.Despair cloaking all my thoughtsAs I try to grasp at sanity’s strawsThe “black dog’s”…
Broken
There was a time when I stopped caring,Existing, robotically living,Just eating, breathing, drinking. Repeat.Sleeping to waste away the hours.As awake was unbearable.Depression is a funny old thing,It has many monstrous guises,Morphing from the grey nothingnessTo crucifying you with hateful images.Back again to the empty void,Before tricking you with a glimpse of happiness.Repeat and shuffle, then…
Heatwave Dave
Scorching rays ripple roastingRepelling those sane with brains toasting.Frantically feeling, the skin peelingSuccumbed sizzling and fever dreaming.Sun beating a tattoo in allegro timeQuickening the sickening, as long as it shines.Messing, mulching, my wits to goo.Thoughts all loopy through and through.Sweating, steaming. Loss of feelingsHidden in shadow, staring at ceiling.Praying to the gods for rain at…
Cool
“Cool”, he said,But was it really?He rarely said anything.Apart from monosyllabic statementsPiercing the silence in their singularity.Imagining him piecing together a sentence,A frenetic vocal fantasyPoetic words slipping from mouth,Formed, chosen, lavished with insight.Not a nod, a grunt, a wink,But a vast inflective range,Emotional and flowery.Instead of gauging all by one solitary word,That would be “cool”…
Double Dealing
Getting older, getting bolder.Mismatched views, news propagandaCreating zombies, full of slander.Eking out their time, shouting online,An echo chamber but please remember,That the views they hold have a defender.Nourished on hate, a divisive spate.Sanctimoniously smug sold with a shrug.Cloning more rabid unsightly thugs.The media praised; eyes glazed.Double dealing, thought stealing,Callous uncaring vapidly preening.Selling copious copies and…
Early
I hate being late for things,It started with how my dad was,He was averse to time keeping,There always seemed to be a “because”Or some other lie with lengthening schnozPinocchio set in human flesh,When he would arrive was anyone’s guess. Which is why lateness is my pet peeve,Just something I cannot endure,I have to be early…