How can you use the word pain

When your skin holds in its blood

Or tongue around the word lost

when you're here, where

You've always been

it's just a day like any day

the dark spit beyond the glass

artificial light, to keep you from sleeping

the city somewhere, out there


the curtains are so thin now

they let in more than glare

the headache's gone, there's something instead

to give you the sense of an end

write "nerves" coz that works every time, avanteur amateur paratour

I'm pretty down but it's ok because

now I know that I'm just

pretty down because I finally

did something with it, so I

can give it shape and fix

it with some words and it's

experience, so, sloppy, but it'll

mostly stay together and I'll

mostly stay together and there's

a long time to go, before I sleep

but I'm not worried, any more

stomach bug - gets me down - but I could see some sun from my window

A day so bleak you can taste it

And measure it with your nerves

Your glands become part of

the opening sky

As shudders hold in the light

nerves aren’t just a word

when it hold your eyes in light

and breathing is just breathing

when the pressure tricks its loss

back from dublin

...... the sign says "no swimming".....

.... which is funny not only becase it's frozen over (pictured) but because it's one of the dirtiest bodies of water in the city.....

....they have these little gondolas awkwardly float around the aluminium beer cans in the summer tho......