When the Dogs Bite

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.

Sunday, 2 November 2025

2nd November 2025

Remember, remember

the last week of October, and maybe

the next fortnight, too

I'm doing it wrong?

Tell me more about how that makes you feel

superior to everybody else,

I can see you are a top achiever

in making everything about yourself.

It's clear you're an expert on Why Gay Is Wrong

but what made you decide to be het?

Your opinion's as welcome as septic tank pong

is there 'owt you don't know about yet?

I think you're confused just what confidence is,

have you Googled what arrogant means?

I see my existence puts you in a tizz

and you need to feel Valued and Seen

I know you're concerned on my lack of reply

but know that the silence is just my goodbye.

Saturday, 1 November 2025

1st November 2025

All Saints' Day

but King Farage rejects St George;

a knight of Palestine

Construction Bus

Growing up, there was no single toy

I favoured most of all, although my dad

regrets the day he took me, as a boy,

to Three Counties Show, a fair that Malvern had

for there the Fischer Technik travelling bus

took hold of my autistic-challenged head

and let me fiddle with construction kits because

where Lego stopped they went further instead.

(If Lego in my youth had sold a Technics set

I would have pledged my loyalty to that

but in those days there were no gears as yet

and thus my budding engineering brain was flat.)

Dad emptied out his purse and bought a starter set

and set me on my most expensive hobby yet.

fischer technik

Friday, 31 October 2025

31st October 2025

fireworks

it's not even Hallowe'en

scared dog

All Hallow's Eve

Yet comes another annual scary night

wherein we cower within darkened rooms

so fearful of the tiny demons out

who with but a simple knock will bring us doom.

Our dogs will bark and bend our injured ears

to inform us of the evil lurking just

behind the door. The sum of all our fears

are nothing like the terror that we must

confront the horror of the passing year

where once we were the house with full-sized bars

of name-brand chocolates to pass to dear

and costumed kids with trick-or-treating jars.

For now we can't afford to buy the sweets

they seek and turn off lights to deter such meets.