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Passing Off

13th October 201922nd October 2019 ~ Mike Bell Poetry

Being a matriarch was propounded as her Greatest-ever-role in their first draft of an online obituary .../

Erasers

12th October 201915th October 2019 ~ Mike Bell Poetry

We were not taught how to erase - how best to rub out - how to remove errors - instead - we were told to Put a line through it .../

Emetics

11th October 201913th October 2019 ~ Mike Bell Poetry

Those mob-mindful leaders - your haters - your righteous orators have raised their volume to that once of The Left .../

Switch

7th October 201913th October 2019 ~ Mike Bell Poetry

I contemplate  setting it all to Off (even my rum scuttle of thoughts from toils)  .../

Posted

18th September 2019 ~ Mike Bell Poetry

We want to be heard - us mutterers - we discontents who can mussitate... /

Labouring Under

9th September 201910th September 2019 ~ Mike Bell Poetry

There are no greater spurs to human indecency than cheap shortcuts to wealth be they lotteries or lies - they are muted calls to hard work - to tilth .../

The Scent of People

9th April 2019 ~ Mike Bell Poetry

Larner feared removal of the scent of people in crowded wiki articles Dumb grazing animals hardly move from hoof to hoof with their heads down At this bar three men sit before chemical beer misdirected and under-lit Tommy Robinson spits as poor aims are raised by squaddies at politicians and three men take turns to … Continue reading The Scent of People

The Reading Room

26th March 201926th March 2019 ~ Mike Bell Poetry

We are looking about at a screen-stuck-to silvered generation of eye-glued viewers in trawl-warmed hands Those old phone huggers sit logged in to online's click-bait refuge of tittle-tattle and gossip and foreign muckiness under scrolled fingering for rolled eyes of delight and instant connectedness to others' risen anger Those mobile surfers ride on a curl … Continue reading The Reading Room

Thursday – Overground to Euston

19th February 201918th March 2019 ~ Mike Bell Poetry

We travel sober through London Bridge - below brick arches - on roads cowered by glassy heights - Our cabbie blasts bent-to-smartphone bodies back from near-hits on red-man crossings - it seems that Londoners have now forgotten how to see the threats beyond their implements - We now live hand-to-eye - no longer hand-to-mouth - … Continue reading Thursday – Overground to Euston

Being Eighteen

16th December 2018 ~ Mike Bell Poetry

Being eighteen in 1982 was easier than in 2018 - we had less stuff to plug in .../

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