When the Dogs Bite

Tuesday, 26 May 2026

26th May 2026

mowing the grass

with the day's heat ebbing

pre-empt the kid asking

The Most Decent of Vicars

The delightful Reverend Richard Coles

is sixty-four and now retired

from vicaring at St Mary's Souls

write novels now because he's tired

of taking stick from Powers That Be

about stuff he did in funereal rites

and breaking unfair laws to see

parishioners buried with their dear pets.

“There is a wideness to God’s mercy

that doesn't mind just who loves what

Love is like the wideness of the sea;

and it's up to us to judge them not.

He doesn't mind the gays, the trans,

or old ladies living in their vans.

Reverend Richard Coles admits to breaking law during burials

Monday, 25 May 2026

25th May 2026

young lad

offers to cut my lawns

every four days

Down Among the Women

the
desperate tragedy

traced back on an intimate scale,

when the entire world bends;

the horrors of war with characteristic verve--

truckloads of young girls,

ferried in for the troops,

crammed into catacombs beneath the desert floor.

Where are their memorials?

raise a monument in the heart of London

and call it the Tomb of the Unknown Whore.

Let the King pay homage once a year

on Mountbatten Day.

Sunday, 24 May 2026

24th May 2026

electrical wiring

where I can't see the terminals

failing sight

Rent-Free

I dreamt last night

you accused me of not loving you

and it was time for me to leave;

and you were right:

it's hard to love someone

who put me in hospital

and we've been divorced almost forty years,

so why are you even here

living in my dreams rent-free

when I evicted you so very long ago.

Saturday, 23 May 2026

23rd May 2926

toothache trip

turns into gruelling day

bitten dentist

The dean of Cardiff's Llandaff Cathedral

an Anglican priest of “deliverance"

deals with poltergeists, hauntings and frightful

and things that make layman gurn in askance.

Every diocese in England and Wales

has a team of ministers, you see,

a dozen a year in just Cardiff pales

to numbers of people possessed there can be.

My house in south Dyfed had a cold spot

which indicates presence of ghosts

around where we'd put the new baby's cot

was a portal for demonic hosts.

I had the house blessed by a vicar with salt

and that brought the ghost in a mask to a halt.

I do 'exorcisms' for the Church of England

Friday, 22 May 2026

22nd May 2026

morning shower

now involves falling over

ear infection

Open Letter to Elon Musk

just because you wish your son

had never transitioned to female

shouldn't mean you want her dead.

She remembers when you were kind

and not the monster you are today

so stop asking you fans and sycophants

to end her life as a favour.

Even your wife regrets her book

and apologised to the trans community

“Stop putting hits on her head”

Thursday, 21 May 2026

21st May 2026

dizzy spell

causing me to sit awhile

feeling sick

Paedophile was 'Man in Dress'

The papers ran with the story,

a confessional from a fourteen year old

looking for a hook-up with his online friend;

little did he know his fellow gamer

was a man, just pretending

to be a fifteen year old girl

in order to groom and prey upon him.

"I got there and there was this old white dude in a dress,"

said Kevin (not his real name,)

"and he offered me Coke (the drinking kind)

he said the girl I was friends with had gone to the shop

and I could wait for her in the house."

Online news picked it up and ran;

it made the local TV news

and a famous author paid millions to the Lords

to criminalise transwomen,

and wrote a book about a tranny killer

but when the police made the prosecution

they kept the whole thing hushed

at the request of the Church

who quietly defrocked the guilty priest.

former president of anti-gay organization Exodus International Arrested

Wednesday, 20 May 2026

20th May 2026

paintings

taking over the house

bonfire time?

Moor Lane Cemetery

a narrow path; almost a burrow,

through trees bowing to honour the dead;

a path between old graves

leading to a chapel

long disused,

a roof emulating trees

channelling rain to an old altar

re-consecrated to the Lord of Fungi

in a moss covered copse