Thursday 1 November 2012

Love don't live here anymore.

Foot prints on a cloud
it's the small things i see
that remind me
you're not around.
Hearing texts
I hold my breath
I bite my tongue
to stop myself

How many stand ups
have really stood up?
I can't gig anymore
it puts my back up.
looking at picture of deadpool
and when it rings I can't pick up.
you need help?
I'll have your back
if you take my hand
but if not I don't mind
I mean I do mind
I just know it doesn't sound nice,
to put insurance on a relationship
but the last time I followed my heart
I got lost with too much left
and not enough right.

I don't know what it'll take for you to
mellow my mind.

now theres not enough time
for me to love another and myself
and if theres one thing I've learnt
from the lovers that have left me burnt
is that you should always come first

ring ring, me.
I don't want to talk.
but could you talk to me?
It's not me. It's not you.
I mean it's not me.
It's you.

The first love.
there from the start
and I don't expect you to call
but like clockwork you do.
Don't ask me if I'm well
when we both know
you're the reason I'm not.

I've been through a few changes
that've involved blowing second chances.

a part of me knows we're meant to be
but I don't know in what capacity
no one should take up every memory
so quickly.

I don't miss her.
(I don't miss her)
Only, crave.
I feel like we get calm
in the eyes of our storms
I only escape the palpitations
when I'm with the person
I'm trying to escape from.

We're a rose royce song.
about love going wrong.
but even in poems
we're not as poetic.
I keep on wanting to finish
but we're never near done
and I've left everything that
reminds me of home
so I can't blame where I'm from.

You can't understand unless
you're trying to be a grown up
in the place you grew up in
and know this new you is different
to the man that was promised.
And each pavement slab you see
is a reminder on how you haven't.

I wanted to be a super hero
all I've got now is a bullshit ego
and texts in my drafts I can't let go
and drafts on my twitter
and buttons that hover over numbers
and phone calls I can't answer.
and parties I don't go to
because the only fuck ups I can handle
are the ones that are on my terms.

Tuesday 30 October 2012

DD

All the pictures are of him being happy with his girlfriend and working in the merchandise shop of his football club
and i think to myself
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORRRRRRRRRRRRRRLD

Monday 29 October 2012

The email I never sent.


dammit FIDHCK I didn't want that in writing. Or over email. Oh well.
I didn't even ask. I did make a decision though. To ask you out. I made it yesterday. On the way home after MXPS IRY84 IBG0 IA, when you went with U04- I wondered if you had slept with him and it hurt because you have no obligation to me and are free to do what you want, sleep with who you want. I then realised i am a little attached and I care for you more than i thought i did.
so that's why I made that decision yesterday. I'm annoyed because I wanted to present a case that wouldn't feel like i was addressing a problem. I feel like we really get on. Texting, and emails and long talks. the only thing that would changes is that there'd be more of it. And exclusivity. That's how you'd look at it mathematically. I've felt that you've dealt with a lot of people that have been all talk so I've been trying to show you I care through actions but sometimes talking is an action. Sometimes saying something can be the biggest, hardest thing in the world to do, if you mean it. I don't know whether to stop writing now or not. I don't want to pour what i feel, how i feel, into an email. I really don't but the last two times i saw you i pussied out of saying what i feel. So maybe I'm not ready either. I just want to be there. and to hold your hand and stuff. but I can't so just know I'll be here. heeyyyy.
Also, please don't palm any of this off on me just moving on and wanting to be with someone and you're the first. It's not that. It's you. I really like you. I feel like i can talk to you about anything and every time you're in an audience i give it my all and it comes natural. You give the best Seanface. It makes me melt.

That's why i wanted to see you today. I don't want to look at you and feel like I can't talk to you. We never talked about us until at our most drunk. there is no us though. but that's good.

It'll be easier for us to be friends if we were as friendly to each other as we are to IE6TBFO and UEBH (I really don't think i send IE6TBFO or UEBH around three emails a day)- don't you think that would be easier? I think it would.

25.11.08 15:39



oh wow dude.

your dad...he sounds like a very cool cat. i think he would have got on well with my uncle. two very down dudes with lots of talent but naughty habits. so that is where the coolness comes from dude! its like inheriting a certain colour hair or something. the cool vibes you know, the smart way with words. you must be really proud to have a pops like that. how groovy. 
i bet he digs the stories you write. right? ah how cool.

thanks for sharing it with me thunderbolt. (tips hat and grins) 

x

Sunday 28 October 2012

Sometimes I think sitting on trains.


and then when i came back everything was just worse, well i sort of forgot to eat you know? and then every day a little more bone would come and then it wasnt me anymore it was the skin all taut and stretched over lots and lots of bone. and i sort of felt like i was fading away somewhere else and i'd better get rid of the hair too in case that was too heavy now...argh. i guess it was bad. but i didnt know how bad. so when i got here, you know, and the parents saw me. well they got all upset and now things are better and the bones are going away, slowly. i'm still very thin. but at least im eating now. but the hair is gone and i miss it. because its bare bare bareness nothing to put in front and say "look at me i've got lovely long blonde hair!" now its just me. but you say i look like desire and that is better than anything because he/she rocks hard hard hard and that is awesome. so i am happy. thanks man. *hug*

lumberjack jackets. we should probably get some so we can match. it might be a good look.

sometimes i think sitting on trains x

Saturday 27 October 2012

09.11.08 00:46


there are tears streaming down my face.

thank you, you have no idea how many times thank you. i needed that more than oh god i dunno i needed that. i want to say so many things, i mean gosh man...

if you want something to work, you've got to put your love into it right? 

i'm trying. 
i've been reading your notes on facebook. you're writing, what you write-what you just wrote to me. argh i cant see my eyes are too full of tears. sean i wish i could hug you right now, i cant say anything more, i've got so much more to say, will say. i think as soon as you lost your comics i knew we were two people cut from the same dog eared cloth. and i'm sorry i was too much of a lame person to acknowledge it. 

it's dark now and the street lamps are on in washington. i can see the monuments from outside this window. i feel so far from where i want to be, but hearing from you-all the letters/words/ you just gave to me, i feel almost like myself again. sean, dude, i wish i could express how much happier you have just made me feel. argh i feel like my head is full of cotton. 

see i know you know, because you know right? just to know you know,,, ah man that's enough to make me smile. 

ok let's make a deal, if i had a knife or some sort of cool thing-you know we'd make it a blood brother deal....

i promise. i promise-i will be here for you. whenever, whatever, because i get it, and you get it. 

if that aint love then tell me what is. 

Karmel.


The cars move too fast around me
as the bus came I said goodbye to Dean
ending our debate on whether a new year really makes a difference
I think it's a good enough excuse to make one
this rain falls hard, but I still don't put my hood on.
I reflect on the best year of my life
and though i try to block it out
I know there's one regret I can't leave behind.

hey.

I never should've let go of my winter coat
the rain almost pierces through my skin
an unlucky optimist sees it as a baptism
the excuse to let go of the same old
to choose to travel down a new route
before my way gets labelled as infamy
none of these places get me to where I want to be
because none of those places put you next to me
to feel the way I used to
this new life is too close to what I've been used to
I hate that this current lifestyle is now the usual
Get up don't make love don't be touched
go out late don't know how to cry for help
get drunk, act like the texts sent themselves
I've felt like that with you, I could've done better
my apologies come in texts asking for meet ups
that between us being so busy never seem to come.

This piece has taken a few years to write.

I think we'll be friends one day.

Wednesday 24 October 2012

A break up.

Ann has her eyes closed dancing to "It's got to be real" by Cheryl Lynn in an overtly sexualised manner with the brides father. He touches her bum . He's eighty six.
Her eyes open and pan to the corner of the Marquee where all napkin origami swans have been crumpled. No one's sat there. Sophie pulls her arms to carry on dancing.

She twirls to find Jeremy, not moving, with his coat on and hers in his arm.
They both stand still. He looks at her. Her face is lowered at the coat. They're both silent.

Grabs the coat, storms through the dance floor, straight to

Sitting in the cab looking at the door.
Tapping at the window.
Tapping at the window.
Tapping at the window.
The door opens. He strolls to the car, apologises to the cab driver.

They look out their windows.

About half an hour in It's got to be real by Cheryl Lynn plays on the radio and she starts crying.

His hands wrestle with each other.

Tuesday 23 October 2012

London part one.

The train stops like slides with socks
Fifty percent of Londoners don’t know how to stop
the other half don’t know how to start
I move with all I’ve got but don’t move with enough
I don’t read enough books
I don’t breathe enough
I’m too hard on myself
and lacklustre dream chasers
It’s London.
All we have to do is
make it happen.
for two years I haven’t had a
good enough reason
to be leaving
constantly harassing me
while making it clear that
she doesn’t need me
We’ve concluded from recent reports that
seven out of ten londoners wear ipods
to ignore whatever street workers sell us
as soon as she walked in
all the noise of my head was deafened.

at Nineteen.
I met an American who was in love with
the city i lived in,
and proceeded to show me
a side of the city
I never knew existed
my world had expanded
beyond cricklewood
and west hampstead
did you know
one in three of all east london men
have handlebar moustaches?
and half of them talk out their arses.
His name was Johna,

He talked often 
about the house boat he lived in
trips to india, said words like "eloquent"
played clash songs on the ukelele
had a perfectly trimmed stubble
and chatted up girls while calling them babe
I put my head down
as if he was talking that shit in a year room
and if i looked like I’m his friend
a portion of chips, beans and cheese
would also be thrown at my head
but no school dinners came
not even beats
he talked wank
and got off free-
in some ways
you could say
he inspired me.

Monday 22 October 2012

Second draft. The vent.

Quarter to twelve and it's tea number four.
Maybe I should just vent my thoughts.
See if where I am is a place others have been before.
Not sure if I can last as long as my mates
I don't read much nor am I one for wordplay
how long can I really put a broken heart on display
I was nineteen when she said I'd be great one day.
One day you'll really be something special.
Back then I didn't know what to say,
Far as I was concerned, I was already great
But the American didn't need rumours to go her own way
Now I'm with those who chain smoke listening to the chain.
Given up most reaches for fame because it's embarrassing watching it chased
No, please do not ask me to retweet every product you make
nothing sadder than a former star refusing the request to fade away.
With that said, ladies and gentlemen, singer songwriter for queen, Brian May!
She said I'd be great one day. That's all I need. One day.
A day when I can look at my face from outside of myself
Clean my flat, answer my emails, figure little things out
remove each thought from my head and place them back
like tetris bricks and throw away the ones that don't fit.
instead I'm tangled with the parts of me I can't lose
each one taken a loss I've tried to remove myself from.
But if I can get that one day all those regrets will be gone.
Find a new beginning in a kiss like that night i was reborn.
Maybe that one day came and it's time to move on.
I've got to keep on talking, my head is too crowded
and I can't keep my thoughts in.
Englishmen don't suffer from depression
before suffering from repression
Too much pride to put your hand up in lesson
where I come from you can't afford to be wrong
Chairs sooner flung before you admit trouble with the sum
When it's all you've got lets see how valuable pride is to you
some jobs you just can't work
as you're still waiting to be given what you feel is deserved
weird position to be in wen you've got so much to prove
but can't afford to lose and it's like life's closed off all routes
so you stay in your room and play video games all day
wondering what the fuck it is you can do- Zombie blues
just slip away. Just let is slip away. One day you'll escape.
All we've got is mates that hate others success
and you laugh with them but in your head you know
it'd be so much better if they were all dead
because you're tired of having to pretend you're happy with them
after all these years of doing nothing all you want to do is start again.

Sunday 21 October 2012

First draft.

"Who'd really want to hear the backstreets of my mind?"

Third floor of the southbank.
We've asked questions about writing and what to say, 
I have a problem with pushing too much back. 
Putting too much behind when the words that inspire 
are the ones people stutter to say something that's been
building up and swirling around their head for months
and when they break through each one's a release of honesty that 
chills your bones. 

When everyone left we went to the pub.
Had a few drinks and you talked about your ex
how you've left her for the next and you're worried
because it's not confirmed and you don't know what's next
and you've been worried about losing peers respect.
Friends respect. My respect. I took a gulp.
Gulp. Said don't worry, you're doing what you think is right.
You're following your heart so there's no regrets.

And I started to feel words leap frog over what was planned
I closed them down. Shut them down. Shut up. proper obvs.
But words never really go, they'll come through
just directed at others, the people who'll forgive you
for saying reckless stuff but I haven't lashed out,
I've kept it in, pushed it back to the backstreets of my mind.

And who'll really want me to call you a cunt?


Saturday 20 October 2012

We've been here before


when a one night stands last three months
it becomes harder to come apart
and harder to accept every time you leave
is a potential break up.
after a girl and a gig I'll find a bus home to fall
asleep,
It's not a complaint, this is the live I've chosen
to live.
not like my hand wasn't forced but I'll take what
I can get.
A sunny street, oranje juice, polish donut
and real as it gets from the blueprint three.
I didn't get myself out of a place I hated,
instead did renovations.
The man who once held my body in his hands
trusts his life into mine.
One day I'll provide
but now I can't shoot low and aim aim high
Now everything is undone while intertwined
unravels and everything i love leaves me behind
well you know what that's fine. Fucking great.
Keep as straight as you think straight is.

She only wants what was,
and she must have wanted me so much
because she pushed me so hard
It's not her fault, 
she didn't know I still had my dreamcast
that I've got a lockjaw for loyalty.
didn't have to turn my friends into enemies.

I can't keep on losing them.
coming back to this blog.
Telling stories about Max and Jade
when I haven't seen either for months.

Once girl came into the midst of it all
I'd see her every week in east london
we'd talk about big krit and 2chainz
and we'd kiss all night at her place
she's the closest thing to calm I've ever felt.

I don't even know if I miss her.

Friday 19 October 2012

crushing.

If I was her when I met me I'd handle that nineteen year old with care.
I'd keep in contact as much as possible, I'd try to take him to new places
Meet my friends, show him his talents. I wouldn't want to alienate him
when drinking and pretending to fit in while he watches me be different.
Different to how I was when we first met. I'd want him to remind me of who I was.
I'd want him to inspire me as much I hopefully do him. And when I read beautiful words.
Words about me. Seeing me in a light I don't believe I deserve to be in.
I'll tell him how beautiful each one is while walking that tightrope thin line
between telling him how special he is while not leading him on.
I'd spend more alone time with him, trusting that, although he loves me,
He respects the fact that I don't feel the same way- that I'm too self obsessed
and focused on success to give anyone any spare space in my head.
I wouldn't kiss him, I'd probably come close by accident
but wouldn't give into my weakness. It'd be too much for him.
We'd talk about music, I'd give him the names of bands that'll change his life like they did mine.
He could do whatever he wanted with my name, put it on social networking sites
give me a new one. I'd smile at thunderbolt. I'd tell him I loved him and
regret it because I didn't mean it like that I I
I wouldn't leave him alone so suddenly. I wouldn't cut him off
in such a way that'd have him scarred for the rest of my life. His life.
and have pictures of my new dude on facebook. I
wouldn't ignore him for the sake of another man's insecurity.

I'd want to love him the way he loves me. I'd really want to.
But I wouldn't be able to. I'm twenty something and too far gone.
Pretending to be a grown up and impressing peers that don't have half my heart
and I'd make sure you know that no one has have half your talent.
You're really fucking special. You need to know that I love you in a way
that hurts me too because I know the love I have for you isn't the one you want
and anything other than what you want is seen as a rejection but it's not.
I'd like to see you and be open again. For you to see what's within
I'm too broken right now for kisses for anyone I want to know forever though.
I want to know you for forever though.

If i was her I'd still want to know him. I'd want to keep in check.
See if he's ready to be friends yet.

If I was in this position, I'd hope he'd understand.

I miss my friend.


Give a girl your heart
but don't get angry at her when she breaks it.
It's like a comedian taking compliments for being brave
and then blames the audience when he gets booed offstage
a boxer doesn't complain when he gets hit
don't enter the game if you don't know how to play it
I saw you and instantly wanted to know more
friends told me to stay away
said I didn't know the score
all I saw was the figure eights
in everything you wore,
All you ever talked of was
the men that came before
you'd sleep with a man
and it'd tear me apart
so I'd sleep with two women
and tell you. You'd laugh.

You can't get a grip
here's my heart.
Don't feel like a git
because you let it slip
we can't choose who we fall in love with
That's a pain I've felt before
a pain I can deal with
It's what you did afterwards
that makes me feel different
that's a pain that's new
has me avoiding places we went to
avoiding friends we call mutual

I still don't want to make it clear
that I don't hate you
If only for the reason that
I don't want to give anything to you.
I only hate this situation
and how you've defined yourself too soon.

I lost two best friends to that one night stand

Him a best man
you a not so much next girl
but watch dvd box sets
talk about my ex girl
go to bed and how our toes curl

sorry for rhyming girl with girl
I know you wouldn't improve
I hope you never have to write
a love poem for a better writer
than you.

I'm getting off track.
I heard tangents are good.

It's my fault for not manning up
For not telling you I was in love
you'd sleep around and I'd just watch
I slept with twenty women last summer
just to get over your touch

Tried racking up points to build up confidence
then you went and slept with my confidant
truth is, it was never about the score, but the goal.

It's football with playground rules
no free-kicks or throw-ins
it gets kicked out
opportunity is for the one who can run
as long as you're single,
you can have whatever you want.

I knew that
didn't think it would hurt
or hurt this much
now at parties we're
right next to each other
with a grand canyon
filled with apologies and confessions
we don't know how to say that
separates us.

And the rubies know I'm always happy to go on first
but this time, I can't be the one to jump
and I don't want her to either
because she misses me as a friend
and I miss the chance of having what could have been
what could have been is always beautiful
people still thought we were just each others jump off

that's cool. They can think what they want
I just wish we never believed them
Woke up five ours ago
went for a run, checked the time
nine am. I miss my friend.

And it's a shame
that this has to be how it ends
knowing that we've regressed

Who goes from secrets to small talk.
It stresses me out
I've kept a lid on myself for so long
I don't even know what I'm trying to
stop coming from my mouth
Were never going to talk again
and if we ever do
it'll only be through this pen
nothing to say to you
other than it's 12 o'clock
and I miss my friend.

Wednesday 29 February 2012

A piece from an OLLLLD notebook.

Trying to keep a semblance of normality
when you couldn't be further from it
looking at your attempt
is one of the funniest things on this planet
did you embrace the change or runaway?
and how many people will it take
to ask if you're okay before you realise-
you're really not. When your stop comes
and you beg for one more stop
but you've got to get off
you've got to move
because what was then
not being what is now
doesn't mean you're not
the same dude
it just means you've got
some shit to go through.
I know this because
I've been through it too.
One day you're going to be me
and every room you'll walk in
you'll be able to suss
the wankers from those
you can trust.

Sunday 15 January 2012

My love.

My love doesn't reply to my texts,
belittles me among friends,
and when we're alone she only
ever talks of other men.
My love is mine, half the time
My love doesn't want to go home
she wants to know where to go
when the pubs close.
My love's luck has ran out
her weight fluctuates
My love doesn't fit in
but hates standing out
My love has had enough of love
and wants to be someone else
She calls me at her worst
and only in poems do I confess
my urge to be hers
She's up to her neck in ugliness
and couldn't be more beautiful
for it.
She's beaten, down and out but can't
forfeit.
She's taken everything thrown at her
and moved forward.
My love has me chasing the high
of the first time seeing her
genuinely smile.
My love was mine
but it was only for a while.



Monday 9 January 2012

play the game.

I remember being told
I was on a wayward track
I asked that teacher
if there was anything wrong with that
Never paid attention in lessons
couldn't hear answers
had too too many questions
schooled after class
couldn't sleep at night
my mind was too fast
teachers never got me right
taught in remedial
it's shocking what a label can do
Now I live with a point to prove
past the point where I don't
feel like I'm still in school
Not a day when
my eye's not on the ball
And every day I ball harder
I'm counted out
like it's the two thousand and two
F.A. Cup semi final
and my name is ray Parlour.
Next thing you know
it's the two thousand and two
F.A. Cup semi final
and "it's only Ray Parlour"