Ctrl-s

none of is this reality

not until it's on the page

computer broke down backing up

words exist now in my heart, head and cloud

gotta keep it backed up man

there's a lifetime an’ a bit in there

words we speak humble oblique

made up padded down or appropriated

some of those words will never be uttered

and yet some will be yelled out with joy

some for use only in truly tired times

and others simply left there, just to enjoy

computer has been fixed and now is running fine

all required data has been transferred

and it will go on this way until the next day

that it simply loops with a different date

and endless cycle of cyclic ends no less

we are invited to another secret show

with our glyphs and our mouths

all the pretending we don't know

all the many whiles left pretending

all the pretending the sweating the edging

somehow upside on the top of a turtle

all the weening and preening the mockturnal

a fuel driven punch glances off the side of your head

thrown with some foggy beer mustered bravery from behind

your head goes down and you go with it

you find fame at the bottom of a urinal

fame is a piss soaked ciggy butt

jostling with a fresh snot and a bloody broken tooth

fame looks up and rages

rages and stares uncomfortably

staring into every eye

staring into every eye

staring staring

into every eye

into every eye

until one of ya dies

until ones of ya flies

until one of ya tries

and then you both at once realise

it just becomes

inexplicably

unprecedented

unpredicted

"it could be a trick Ed!"

some dickhead said

said to you

said to me

said to every bloody body

bloody every bloody where!

attention,

still it must be said; yes?

our now our self is our gain

from earlier deals and plans

from an old shelf of wood so plain

it’s in a new tin in an old drawer

that’s gonna change the game

you either find it or you don't

because there lays the commencement of your claim

it wouldn't rattle if you shook it

but contents of said tin

are said to be so highly prized

said to the best of your guess

if you care to test

yourself

against

the box

…

it's a larf that innit

(save it)