When the Dogs Bite

Wednesday, 3 December 2025

3rd December 2025

russet apples

a taste of childhood

dad's old tree

On An Influential Childhood Friend

Didst thou get into mischief as a child;

or wert thou already rotten to the core?

parental blame was shared while thou ran wild

and stole what was not nailed down before.

Thy father died whilst thou wert still unweaned

thy mother older than the matron's pack

But what little of thy history was gleaned

had naught to do with empathy thou lack.

Thy mother's house a treasure trove of yore

filled with junk gleaned from the town without

and glittered well with trinkets from the store

that “fell” into thy pockets without doubt.

The local bobby knew thy talent deft

recovered from thy garage all thy theft.

Tuesday, 2 December 2025

2nd December 2025

aging population

raised to a children's joke

my pension age

On Starting (Yet) Another Project

A minor effort to improve thyself

from the lazy basement gamer which thou art

attached to tasks which take the time to delve

into such productivity and start

upon another novel where you lay

part of the history to scrutinise

and as thou write, thou can at last to pay

the toll of making social compromise.

And in addition, might one put forth word

to make a piece of art, however small,

to bring the faintest smile to those who heard

the siren song which certain demons call.

But alas! This I can prophesise:

Thou preferest idleness to being wise.

Monday, 1 December 2025

1st December 2025

prompts a class action lawsuit

my novels

On Get Out of Gaol Free(ish) Cards

Doth thy opinion hold more credit than

three hundred million who rely on thee

to be elected leader if thou can

maintain just some propriety.

Canst thou tell us why a pardon given was

to David Gentile, sentenced to six year

for a billion dollar Ponzi scheme because

he paid thee for the pass, your voters hear.

And why dost thou declare that all the drugs

are cheaper to a negative degree

although thou takest these same folk for mugs

while thou imbibes thy Venezuelan coke for free.

And tell thy public why thou, as president,

ignores the killings at a child's event.

Corrupt?

700% Cheaper!

Shooting

Sunday, 30 November 2025

30th November 2025

cold hand

keeping me awake

reduced blood flow

On a Loophole of Catholic Faith

St Peter seems the only angel made

to work for every minute of the day

by interviewing every single shade

who climbs the gilded staircase to the sky.

And though Anubis measured every heart

against a feather's weight to judge their worth

St Peter seems to tally up the marks

for and against the soul accrued since birth.

One has to wonder which religious man

ruled that sins repented on your death

would offer a free pardon so they can

enter those Pearly Gates upon last breath.

The girl who kills her rapist goes to Hell

but repenting rapists saved by Peter's bell.

Saturday, 29 November 2025

29th November 2025

Twenty four arrests

in Nottingham Christmas market

teens with machetes

On a Rare Incidence in Sparring.

A simple move and one she had performed

a thousand times through oh-so-many years

to stop a sweep from guard which then deformed:

hyperextended elbow joint brought fears

and unexpected pain mid-spar and for

a sacred minute did they stop, assess

mobility and pain thresholds before

continuing to roll though under stress.

That night she drove while favouring her left

enjoyed some soup made by the one adored

but couldn't lift a cup of tea up to her head

and suffered through a night in which pain roared.

In morning time she gets a lift to A&E

where X-ray shows her arm now double fractured be.

Friday, 28 November 2025

28th November 2025

defending

Jordan's sweep from guard

hyperextended elbow

To Change the Topic to His Golf Scores

Two National Guard soldiers shot at close range

hospitalised and one dead, one alive.

Sarah Beckstrom, twenty summers of age

had been sent there as publicity drive.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan by birth

flown here from the Fall of Kabul; vetted

as part of the "Allies are Welcome," worth

saving from Afghanistan vengeance behading.

Trump gave him asylum with cameras and press

but blames Biden for the man's state of mind;

Determined to put immigrants to the test

then rants 'Somalians are criminals I find."

He wants to depart all the folk with convictions

except for himself for his fraud predilections.