Disappearing

Kazakhstan was a blast. Beautiful women, great friends, good bars, dancing all night.. then having to deal with idiots all day.

Why do we promote the incompetent?

Actually that´s not fair. I´ve worked with some great leaders and managers throughout my life. In schools, in industry, in the army.

It seems to me that when we get a weak leader they surround themselves with incompetents so their own stupidity is hidden.

Irrelevant.

I fell in love just once in Kazakhstan; and the name rhymes…

Hoagy Carmichael has it right.

Sometimes I wonder, how I spend
The lonely nights
Dreaming of a song
The melody
Haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you
When our love was new
And each kiss an inspiration
But that was long ago
And now my consolation is in the stardust of a song

Besides the garden wall, when stars are bright
You are in my arms
The nightingale
Tells his fairytale
Of paradise, where roses grew
Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love’s refrain.

 

 

Sunrise to Sunset – for Tasha

This year for the summer solstice I rose early to watch the sunrise over the Mediterranean from the beach at Peniscola. In the evening I sat on my balcony and watched it set.

It took me back two years to 10th August 2014. I watched the sun rise as I flew from Astana to Almaty, then watched the sunset with a beautiful woman from a hill-top restaurant. I thought that was a heavenly day.

Sadly I let that sun set too quickly.

I wasn’t ready for a deep relationship.

Two years on I am working on a new sunrise.

Things have changed so much as I sailed through the perfect storm of stress;

  • Divorce
  • Forced House sale
  • Awful job
  • My Mothers death
  • New job, new country
  • Serious health scare

Yet I came through the storm, tattered and torn, but still moving.

Things can only get better!

 

Here we are being Crass in May.

Where are you?

I went to Singapore; sorry I forgot to mention it!

And who will teach your classes?

That silly girl who has ignored you all!

She will be promoted soon as she is vacuous;

Just like the Boss and his cronies!

Who will check on her?

Who needs to?

The Boss came down from the mountains

Dressed in Damask and a thong of Gold.

His counterparts,

Suited and Booted,

Embarrassed shuffling for the school photograph.

“Sit down boy!”

But where do I sit and with whom?

“Just wear the Dunces hat and write one thousand lines”

‘I must not be a fool’.

The text went through to the Boss’ Lackey

Though he can’t read and never responds;

“I was dead for three days before you even noticed!”

“But you wrote your own eulogy; we know it was you!”

Catherine lost her job today,

Because the Boss went out to play,

Wandering aloud about the town,

So he didn’t have to watch his son go down.

You kicked me out without any fun!

Pay me! Pay me! Pay!

Third time lucky for the invertebrates.

The Chuckle Brothers came out to play at four,

But whinged when you went out of the door;

“She’s leaving early! Boo hoo!”

Then the paedophile screws up his courage,

To moan about women’s clothes.

“They should dress like neat little schoolgirls!”

He cries to his radical lover.

When winter comes, cascading elderly white amongst the youth,

Outcome the skiers,

Stupid hats, fat heads, dead, keen.

I am the Grand Old Duke of York!

Tosses his Pole to a Kazak;

Then any other girl he meets.

 

Bitter

 

Mines a pint cried the fat man.

No need to cry, it’s on its way!

Ready in five came the steadfast reply.

Bitter today?

Idiots causing life to change;

Change!

Look at your hairdo, your suit, your beard!

Stupid old man!

Move on to move on,

Lucrative styling, ludicrous style.

Grab the cliché and fins an island in the sun.

Is it possible?

Will she come with me?

Or do I leave her with the sausage makers,

Their height of creativity a Cumberland?

Cumbersome travels.

Move on to move on!

She said it again; I listened.

It glistened;

The island in the sun.

 

Soft surf Peniscola beach.

Kicking through the gentle surf,

I see Sea; Life and death.

Water of life bitter to taste, killing the tree,

Death is the Sea Shells Sanctuary.

Broken Rocks,

Broken hearts.

Even your name evokes in me;

Peniscola!

Penis, giver of life whether desired or not,

Six percent?

Cola refreshing the parts we dare not mention;

Sagging breasts reminder of the time of your life.

Pert! Young! Sentenced to gravitational rectitude!

Alas…

A lass walks toward me, pointing football studs;

“I dare you to look me in the eye”

I looked.

I did not turn to stone.

The Sea erodes my insouciance,

Dead skin to feed the fishes.

“Who will swim with us this night?”

Darting silver arrows search waves of discontent,

The soporific surf sloughing away my life?

I kissed the wave goodbye.

 

My thanks go out to the lazy invertebrates

Thank God the sun refused to shine,

Or I might have thought I was loving you!

 

Walking into that same old trap,

heading for the same old crap,

Early mornings, afternoon nap,

A woman who could really sap.

 

Then out she came with the magic word,

Something I’m glad I just heard,

Something that made my fears end,

“Honey I just want to be your friend.”

Friends

(On being friend-zoned)

Teenage recollections.

You never really know do you Al?

Take a tip from someone who is blue now, it’s really easy.

It was a very nice evening you spent together , said the wind.

A final Kiss?

Bliss? Miss?

What exactly was that, Miss?

You want more?

Nil Satis (nisi optimum!)

Labore et tenacitate!

That was the great approach to developing a good?

Working?

Relationship?

She asked me for my ideal house,

My Tree,

My Sun,

My snake!!!

Psychobabble analysis.

“You’re just so normal

I will forget it.”

I left that day.

Closed my door.

Closed my heart.

Then searched for the next one to open.

 

 

 

Monsters from the Head

Last night I had a weird dream.

I will recount what I can remember then interpret the meaning.the-garden-of-earthly-delights-by-hieronymus-bosch-1

So in this dream…

I am in a suburban landscape moving carefully to avoid groups of marauding Zombies and Vampires. With the large number in this sweet suburbia it was impossible to move without detection and so I was constantly in conflict with one or two members of these murderous creatures.

The bizarre thing was my fighting always involved beating them off with very long heavy rods. The idea was to swing the rod as rapidly as possible and decapitate my assailants. This seemed to be working fine and I was making progress toward some kind of undefined safe haven. Then at one beautiful garden a whole troop of Vampires headed my way.

I ran as fast as I could, but felt they were gaining on me. Suddenly there was a canal so I jumped in knowing that Vampires can’t cross water. I moved as fast as possible and escaped across the canal being chased by water borne Zombie rats.

As I recovered my breath on the other side I was attacked by a lone Zombie dressed as a Headmaster. As I spun to quickly take off its head I found myself face to face with a Vampire Priest…

At this point I awoke drenched in sweat with my heart racing.

So what does it all mean?

Well over the last few years my life has been in constant conflict with my ex-wife and her lawyers, and the idiots that run my school. So it’s easy to see what the dream was about.

Vampires – the blood sucking lawyers who will soon be cut down by the Law Society for running a confrontational action and lying about me.

Zombies – the empty headed, unqualified, inexperienced, narcissistic talentless management that haunt my days. The want to drain me of knowledge as they have none. Again they will be decapitated in the International Media.

Zombie rats – my so-called friends who live in the arseholes of the managers in the belief they will be given a promotion.

Either that or I’m just fuckin Nuts…summer 2013 012

 

 

Eclectic catholic

What the feck have I been reading recently?

War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells – old Physicists joke… where do you get mercury from?

Hg wells…

The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak – reminds me of my old friend Chris

After Hitler by Michael Jones – Europe is still recovering

The Middle East by Bernard Lewis – 2000 years of History which is almost all about the rise of Islam

The Stanier Pacifics of the LMS by Cecil J. Allen – a history of steam engines, published in 1950 at 3/6

Extreme Risk by Major Chris Hunter – a life fighting bomb making terrorists

 

And I forgot

Rumi – selected poems

Rain

Rain

She came for me again last night;

During an outpouring.

A downpour of emotion causing consternation in my peregrination.

“Why won’t you talk to me?”

This alternative reality explained online.

“She is a Zombie!”

The logic was irrational, no fraction of truth.

We dated –

We dined –

We whined –

We unwound later that night.

She left my bed leaving nothing but an aroma

Like the guilty effervescence of a Penguins’ fish and chips supper.

“Again my heart aches,” I called to my God.

“Does a drowsy numbness fill thy sense?”

Go outside inside in the rain came the venerable suggestion.

“She will be waiting for you.”

But there is no inside outside

and she never waits.