Drifting through... with Matt Nõmme

And another kid crosses the county lines

the kids near here whizz

with the fizz

of electric bikes,

crossing county lines

delivering grass,

sherbet ,

panda pops,

dropping off packages

                        …

The state of this visit

we peasants gaze

as greasy hands from distant lands

slap together and shake up our lives.

as foie gras & faux pas

are washed down with Bordeaux grapes

older than the states that guz…

Paper cuts and hi-vis thugs

I watched hi-vis thugs round up the old

for carrying placards with human dreams

nuns

veterans

teachers

miners

plumbers

dragged them along double yellow lines

and locked them behin…

I saw my face on a missing poster

looked just like me

staring back

beard

brown eyes

30’s

the family chose a good photo,

it was some sort of birthday

or get together

wishing he was still at that night.

We live …

Soup season is here

and you should witness the soups round my house

big fuckin soups

big stickin fuckin soups

filled with carrots

parsnips

and onion.

The thing stinks so much

people pass me in the street

and…

performative males.

I’ve heard people complain about ‘performative males’

but ain’t performing the best thing about being a male?

I’ve heard a fart from a bloke

amongst a group of men

so beautiful

every ma…

Midnight piss

There’s something beautiful

about a midnight piss

you know?

Rocking off of the mattress,

hearing the percussion of my joints do its little drum solo

while I’m GRUNTING on vocals.

The world is …

curtain twitchers

there are curtains

up

and

down

the country

which sway with paranoia,

through locked

and alarmed

windows,

through doorbells with eyes

in server rooms

in America,

who babble of radio hosts

and day-…