couching tigers

honey darling, the news is on, choose your destiny, earthquake, war,  exploitation of children, rioting in Greece, massacres in Syria, scroll the list dear, seeking a celebrity, no one seems to fit, back to war, ad break, rush to the kitchen, stuff a sambo together, ooops forgot the salt, they promised us a repeat of that bomb explosion last week, did you see it, blood everywhere, look great in a movie, so realistic, shit i spilled some mayo on the carpet, they really cut that guys head off, beasts, feck, I've got to see the dentist next week, somebody ought to do something about that war, explosion in Baghdad, 37 killed over a hundred injured, the caption keeps repeating across the screen, come on hurry up, want to see if tiger won this week, is there a TV station out there that does just news, waiting to be entertained is boring, worse than watching trailers at a .., live news report, women screaming, children in despair, over what, just a mangled car on a street, boring, saw it before, UN can't intervene, says the spokesman, some regulation thing, domestic violence no concern of theirs, if on the other hand another nation tried to blow them up with a car bomb, that would be an international incident, borders, used to be legal to rape your wife, still legal in some places, amazing what you learn sitting on the couch, normal to sexualize children too, the violent thingee, they can join the army for that. goodnight honey he shouts, he listens as she climbs the stairs, waits till the bedroom door closes. listens to her feet on the bathroom tiles. presses the button, family guy, at last, news you can relate to, not again, ad break, click the news, Iraq again, the war they won all those years ago.

The Payment

There’s a wild illusion going round my head

There is no solution if you are dead

Times confusing everywhere I look

Times are hard and I’m running out of luck

They said it was easy first time they said

I cocked the trigger and put it to his head

One bright galactic red from his shoulders he was dead

I trembled waiting for the fear to pass away

Nightmares have been my life since that fateful  day

The court appearance was all too short appeal he said

I was taking methadone but inside I was dead

Sorry for taking that decision that night

I joined a gang the payment is my life

roaring waters are flowing....

is it time to take precautions or are you still blind drunk, the girls are in the office your wife is on the phone, your son is on valium so the teacher says, you drop your latest bag of coke on the toilet floor, oh shit...