#5 - Sooty Smoko's Dream

5^th of January, 2020

#5

you’re not going to wake up, are you?
for Sooty Smoko (Prime Monster)

it’s too lovely to be dreaming

a little cough

and aircon up

unprecedented

(have a guess)

light’s so harsh

and life already

you know it’s all the world

in this little cave head

dreaming

everyone else is here

the gone as much as any

dumb luck

brought us all                   

and where?

make hells        

machine is only memory

silence is death in the dream

here, hold mine

take to heart

let’s see how far a thing can burn

before we have to put it out

can’t make it rain

meaning God can

things one way or the other

I know you’re dreaming ‘hypocrites’

look at what they drive

they wear, they fly, they eat

left right

life death

take the road less lit

you know that it’s too late

give up

she said

he said

in the dream all’s alive and well

there’s not a species missing

let’s just live the day

burning’s the way you make smoke

how else?

one fire leads to another

dreamt up a ladder

but you have to be awake to climb

fires are all front

ember

and you won’t wake up

will you?

did you see me in your dream?

you were just coming from mine

hard hat, like a shift change

all haughty

pocketing some proceeds

what a success we sleepers are

I’ll poke you if you snore 

but

I was told it in a poem

a little booklight truth

one golden age after another

let’s exorcise some demons

at a stake, with faggots

fun

sleep is a national pastime

I love a good lie in

best fantasies give birth

dreamt that the country was stolen

and we were here by luck

that’s all

a nightmare

went back to it

hard at it in fact

hard graft – this sleep

the rabbits on the lawn

bears, porridge

and the kingdom come

how steep the graph I dreamt

more! more!

no it was you

hush mustn’t wake them

we were all there

the languages and no one knows

kept well hidden then

a country goes under

but it’s not mine

here’s fiddler dither wit

blather it up

Santa says

its childhood again

the Christmas beetles are back

glitter a tree with them and catch

your gifts

each as it falls

a little bird

flew into my dream

told the way in tiny crumbs

I followed faithfully and here

come after us ready or not

but you won’t wake up, will you?

promise?

I’m yours

we’re coming through under the trees

river still

canoe at a time

all saved

we are

hush whistle up

I heard on the news  

no one was hurt in the shooting

in a dream wish the flood

each his her lilo

riding

time to shake out

up and do

empty the history dustbins but

faithful to a fault

and many

swear to where I am

my dream right or wrong  

it’s only just a fairytale

you won’t wake up in time

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second draft:

Sooty Smoko’s Dream

it’s all the world

in this little cave head

dumb luck

brought us                        

machine is memory

silence is death in the dream

here, hold mine

see how far thing burns

can’t make it rain

God can

you know that it’s too late

give up

all said

one fire leads to another

dreamt up a ladder

you have to be awake to climb

fires are all front and ember

did you see me in your dream?

hard hat, all haughty

pocketing

one golden age after another

sleep is a national pastime

hard graft –

the rabbits on the lawn

for kingdom come

how steep the graph I dreamt

Santa says

its childhood again

the Christmas beetles are back

glitter a tree with them and catch

your gifts

each as it falls

a little bird

flew into my dream

told the way in tiny crumbs

I followed faithfully and here

come after us ready or not

but you won’t wake up, will you?

promise

is it time to shake out

up and do?

empty the history dustbins

faithful to a fault

my dream right or wrong  

it’s only just a fairytale

we won’t wake up in time

.

the pickout:

one fire leads to another

dreamt up a ladder out

you have to be awake to climb

fires are all front and ember

did you see me in your dream?

we won’t wake up in time