Nomophobia*

Do you hands get sweaty? Does your heart miss a beat? Does you chest start to tighten? Do you have to take a seat? Do you find you cannot focus, keep up with change of locus? Do you lose concentration irrespective of situation…? Do your hands start to twitch in pursuit of affirmation That your […]

Blame & Shame*

DIffusion of responsibility Is no way to pass the buck Anymore than the attribution of blame Is a simple matter of bad luck. That said, evidence, while generally clear, Is easy to obscure Whether bending the truth or rewriting it Or by talking a load of manure… The thing about trying to hide from the […]

Three Corners*

We’re five days into the eighteenth year Of the twenty-first century, as measured By men of olde with weird contraptions That each one will have treasured; Their erudition, so we’re told, Has singlehandedly shaped mankind To organise them at least to try to arrive on time And if not, give due consideration As to how […]

Pointing the Finger*

The postmodern pencil grip Sees me wince with discomfort As though to simply hand-write Is a Herculean effort… The way young hands and fingers contort With the pain of all their internet sport: Thumbs the dominant digits these days, Depending, I suppose, on the games they play. Gone, the Hopscotch, Jacks and Five-Stones, Replaced by […]

The Mythology of Technology*

They gave me a laptop and bade me, ‘Type!’ It’s really only now I reflect on the hype: The status of technology Supposedly empowering me Missing fundamentally The point. To write by hand May be not so grand, All higgledy-piggle With the strokes and wiggles, Crossings out and spelling mistakes But [expletive deleted] it’s the […]