When the Dogs Bite

Wednesday, 12 November 2025

12th November 2025

closed stair gate

Cookie runs back up

I take a tumble

Thy Glass House lies Vacant

Thou who in thy mother's basement lives

typing threats of death with every wakeful thought

how wouldst thou feel if all the fucks I gives

amounted to the total sum of nought?

With all thy mates around you at the match

thou cans't be seen a gobby shite by all

but alone, when thou hast none to whom attach

keepeth thy counsel to thy self and wall.

Thy threats to end the lives of all the folks

who sowest seeds of doubt in thy ideals

can ne'er be easily passed off as jokes

when thou art called to justify thy feels.

Though who taketh pride in dissing queers

should be aware I fucked three of thy peers.

Tuesday, 11 November 2025

11th November 2025

I delete my posts

from NextDoor UK

Don't feed the trolls

Breaking Genetic Tradition

there were two girls born before I arrived

and I came as a surprise: tradition,

assuming Dad's genetics still applied,

meant having two in procreation mission.

First they had Elizabeth, who came with whirl

of aptitude for learning maths and English, too

and four years after her, a sister came, a girl

in love with animals whom they called Sue.

That was their lot, according to the lives

of both parents, who came from sibling pairs

as far as family history arrives

but then another kid after six years.

And though the docs assumed me male and cis

I should have been my cousin Julie's sis.

Monday, 10 November 2025

10th November 2025

a minutes' silence

leaves viewers scratching heads

TikTok live

Calling All Hypocrites

personal development is about

'walking the walk' by which I mean to say

you need to act on all the things you shout

and leave them not for another day.

To be a Christian with all your soul

will bring forth my blessing and my respect

but to treat someone like an asshole

reveals with rotten core your soul has debt.

The Valente Brothers of jujutsu fame

promote a personal code called seven-five-three

foremost of which is rectitude, by name

means to live with a morality.

If you believe God condemns being gay

then give away the money that you made today.

Sunday, 9 November 2025

9th November 2025

Remembrance Sunday

neighbours setting off fireworks

PTSD

Outlandos d'Amour 1978

Why did poor Roxanne put on the red light?

probably the same reason that I stood

in the black of the corrugated night

on the edge of the cricket field wood.

Teens of single parents don't have the cash

to stay of top of social pressures, work

enough to pay for records and then stash

enough to set aside for circle jerk.

Roxy wanted no controlling boyfriend

to dictate what she could and couldn't do

to be your own boss has become a godsend

even if your dangerous work defines you.

I will not give up my independence

to just become your object of ascendence.

Saturday, 8 November 2025

8th November 2025

Meccano Big Ben

retrieved from a thorn bush

barking dog

Elon Musk says he’s a Nice Boy

Spare a thought for the poor Rupert Lowe

whose wife left her Porsche on a London Street

and returned to find her lights didn't glow

for her headlights had gone for a treat.

This arsehole condemning the Underground Strike

and blaming the Mayor for the damage

has used public Transport just once in his life

when he filmed some promotional footage.

Great Yarmouth's Ex-Reform bloke says it's the fault

of the Muslim in charge of the city

Farage kicked him out for his far-right revolt

but his own town is Norfolk's "Most Shitty"*

There's nothing like sticking the Vs at the poor

by parking your Rich Man's car outside their door.

*Crime rates in Great Yarmouth

Friday, 7 November 2025

7th November 2025

two lads

motorbikes without lights

unlit street

But I Lie for a Living...

Imagine me there was an extra hour

with which the day I could gad about

what would I do with all awesome power

but fritter useless through the time no doubt.

For what do I do now with early rise

but while away the time with internet

and whether it be games or writing lies

or watching politicians spout their fakest yet.

For in my youth I would have stayed in bed

especially in the winter months when frost

would paint inside my bedroom windows; dead

to the world and in the land of dreams be lost.

I be lying if I claimed I'd use the time

for art or to improve this life of mine.

Thursday, 6 November 2025

6th November 2025

open guard

no defence possible

sore throat

But it's Traditional. Like Public Hangings.

Please tell me again that it's victimless fun

to put gunpowder on Britain's streets and beach lands

while children in Scarborough suffer from burns

when fireworks go off in their wool-mittened hands.

Merseyside flats turn into inferno

when teens fire rockets through windows

and turn on the fire crews attending the go

to extinguish the rooms that are starting to glow.

New Street in Birmingham sees several youth

in hoodies and ski masks attacking a bus

that is packed with commuters and shoppers in truth

with fireworks and rockets and causing a fuss.

One an act of defiance I think is alright:

the thirty-foot Starmer which burned in the night.