When the Dogs Bite

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.

Wednesday, 5 November 2025

5th November 2025

transwoman

in the ladies' changing room

no-one cared

Never Mind Epstein, Look at the Baptists!

Anti-Queer conservatives, and TERF caboose

harping on that queer adults, queens and allies

“grooming” and “sexualizing” children for abuse

and throwing shade despite it being lies.

These self-righteous trolls just ignore the abhorrent

abuse of young kids that comes to attention

from the Christian church and Republican torrent

behind the stage at the Convention.

Thank fuck there's a journalist willing to set

the cases pushed under Red-hatted rugs;

Evan Hurst from left website Wonkette

exposing abusers no better than thugs.

One hundred and eighty-eight so far THIS YEAR

but sure, "Child Pageants are dandy," they cheer.

188 Republicans and Ministers

Abusers Page 1

page 2

page 3

Tuesday, 4 November 2025

4th November 2025

child sex dolls

removed from Shein's catalogue.

Real kids preferred

Drink Alcohol - We’ll all be dead sometime.

I'm generally an easy-going soul

content to smile and let folk go about

their business without comment on their whole

assumption that the world needs them to shout

their opinion as if they were a god

for whom others should give priority;

that take the needed space inside my head

and live there for a long time all rent-free.

The bloke on NextDoor yesterday who said

that moaners all liked fireworks as kids

but does he think that petrol should have lead

like in our youth the government still did?

Ricky Gervais can get fucked in the face

if he thinks his shitty beer ads are good taste.

Monday, 3 November 2025

3rd November 2025

new roof at 84

looking very swish indeed

Winter headwear

The Nurturing of a D/s Mindset

Miss Maguire taught English at a school

in Redditch and kept a tight control

with discipline and 'suffer no fool'

policy and was the only soul

I could respect among the teaching staff.

Her reason for authority was clear

for she was no postgrad teacher chaff

but lived another life ere this career.

The scar that cleaved her face from ear to chin

marked her as a woman who took no shit

from pupils or from bleating staffroom dim

ex-police with medically retired chit.

I loved her with a passion made to please

and learned by heart Shakespeare's works with ease.