When the Dogs Bite

Tuesday, 10 March 2026

10th March 2026

running outside

dumping all the bags in time

bin lorry cometh

He Pays Billions (to Himself)

And now we see the reason for the war

was just another money-making scheme

the Family will buy another core

of businesses to profit from the dream.

Proteus will make a reverse-merger

with Aureus Greenway Holdings, owned by Trump,

making drones to push the war much further

with a multi-billion Pentagon-backed bump.

In a surprise to nobody at all

Proteus is also backed by firms

backed by Eric, Junior and call

Unusual Machines all run by these few worms.

Now drones are all the rage for strife,

how disposable it is, this human life.

Trump Bros Back a Drone Company as the Pentagon Prepares to Spend Billions

Monday, 9 March 2026

9th March 2026

early birdsong

a halo of orange

in the streetlight

White Phosphorus

In Lebanon where children once had schools

an new Israeli airburst is deployed,

to fall on streets and thus create the pools

of white-hot chemicals to see their homes destroyed.

Amidst the dust and flame, still some survive

though many of them die, their faces seared

with flesh burnt down to bone as fires thrive

where Human Rights have all but disappeared.

Now Israel, once thought the land of God,

attempts the genocide of poor Iran

while red-hat 'Muricans destroy the sod

and magnify the slaughter they began.

So human rights aside, the only end I see

is depose the arsehole in the Land of Free.

Sunday, 8 March 2026

8th March 2026

recording video

I should really check it works

before I post it.

Ten-minute appointment

to take a vial of blood for testing.

I don't know what they're testing for.

Maybe oestrogen? Cholesterol?

It could be chlorophyll levels for all I know:

I trust the doctors know why they asked for it,

and I hope it doesn't delay my prescriptions.

Prescriptions for statins, for thyroid underefficiency;

one for depression (it never went away),

another for blood pressure

A prescription for hormone levels

(I moan, I am a whore)

and one to stop my stomach bleeding

from all the others.

The drive back takes another hour.

All the traffic is at a standstill

roads closed without diversions or traffic lights.

At least it's just petrol it's costing,

and a piece of my shortened life.

If I was an American

I'd be facing a ten thousand dollar bill

and be automatically homeless,

but this is Britain,

where medicine is a social necessity;

not communism, just basic humanity.

In the 'States, six bodies are returned

from a war begun entirely for financial gain

while the leader of the country wears a baseball cap

and talks about his new curtains.

Saturday, 7 March 2026

7th March 2026

jiu-jitsu training

leaves me without self-defence

pavement pothole

RFK Junior says we don't need vaccines

because the worm in his brain

said they're a waste of time.

Angiostrongylus cantonensis has reached California

Rat lungworms mature, mate and lay eggs

inside a rodent's lungs.

And not just rats: Possums and Wallabies,

beavers and people.

larvae in the rats lungs

coughed into the rodents throat

swallowed and pooped out

waiting to be eaten by slugs and snails.

Rats and chickens, beavers and pigs

all eat the infected snails

and then people eat the affected meats

and the larvae party

in the carnivore's brain.

we don't need vaccines any more

just a healthy appetite

and a meat-puppet body

for the worms.

A Brain-Invading Worm Has Reached California

Friday, 6 March 2026

6th March 2026

morning surprise

from the washing machine

fresh-laundered glasses

Mum was Catholic;

with a bottle of Lourdes water

from a friendly nun who travelled there

that was never, ever opened

because she thought it Holy.

She had a crucifix over her bed

and rosary beads in a little purse;

each bead moving through her fingers

in a Sunday litany of prayer.

Over the stairs hung a picture of Jesus

talking to his dad in the garden of Gethsemane;

a five foot square print under glass in old oak

that she bought for a pound at the jumble sale.

Dad was Church of England.

He only ever went to St Lawrence's

on Remembrance Day

and after the vicar thanked him for coming

never went again.

They let me find my own religion

under the one condition

that I never let the demons I talked to

cross over in the house.

Thursday, 5 March 2026

5th March 2026

tyre place

walking to the garage and back

new shoes

Threescore Years and Ten

I wrote a short piece

the ended with my mother stating

she didn't know why God made men,

and I was corrected by a lady

who told me quite sternly

that God made man in His own image

and that everything in the Bible

was the Word of God.

I smiled politely at the this eighty-year old

and wondered aloud

about Psalm Ninety:Ten

and asked if she'd agree to euthanasia

on her next birthday.

She declined.

But if In the Beginning was the Word

and the Word was God

and God created Adam in His own image,

Was God an Incel

sitting in the Basement of the Void

Pining for something to stick his dick inside?

Wednesday, 4 March 2026

4th March 2026

Worm moon

bathed in martyr's blood

larksong

No Apparent Reason

Sitting outside Greggs, I break apart

my vegan sausage roll. In this rare moment

I am alone and without loves or dogs,

waiting for a digital clock to read thirty.

The car is at the garage; barely legal tyres

due to be changed, before the potholed roads

strip away the last of the failing rubbed.

If this was France, the people around me would be smiling

but here everyone is numb,

unremarking on the clear blue sky

and the sea-wash of traffic on the five-ways roundabout

Pastry flakes off, fodder for sparrows,

and later on, pigeons touring the closed cafe's.

I don't eat the pastry.

I barely eat whatever's inside

and I imaging my grandmother

examining the carcass of the roll

and declaring it a waste of money

because God invented pigs for a reason,

and my mother pointing out He made men, too,

and we still don't know why.