Monthly Archives: April 2009

ATTENTION: All commuters on the train of thought! Get off. Go and sit on the platform. And mind the gap.

If there is a God, then he works exclusively with a spirograph.

From a narrow ledge

the pigeon song – a high coo.

I could not resist.

The music pounded hypnotically. Young Kyle ran from the room, realising the he had almost found Eric attractive for one terrible moment. Eric smiled his slyest inward smile….

Do Geiger counters enjoy their work?

A pale golden lock,

like a sliver of spring moon

- treasured forever

As he sat behind the wheel, his normal self disappeared. The kinks, the flaws, smoothed and straightened. Merging with the machine, he became the marque, everything he felt he should be. If only he could drive forever.

Before words take hold, we know a truth like no other.

Very soon, it would all be gone. It would be as though the things he had collected over the years had never existed, or as though the collecting had never happened. All his years would be erased. All his imprints on this world would vanish. His time would become nothing again.

If there was no conditional tense, we might all be a lot happier.