Wearwolf 13

UNEMPLOYED PERSON

I do it

Just to

Please

The boss.

Wearwolf 12

ROUNDABOUT WAYS

And when...

The crop circle

Began to rotate -

Then he believed.

NEW IDEAS

He never thought it strange

That as the batteries were exhausted

The music on his radio got slower.

Wearwolf 7, Summer 1993

SIGNAL

On yonder hill

A fire burns,

News that May

Has invaded April again.

DECAYING ORBIT

I woke this day;

No come-back,

Only a gentle groan.

The Moon is still the Moon.

Beyond the biosphere

I slowly piss blood

Into a recently kicked bucket.

LINES

As a child

My father would

Warn me about

Sitting too close

To the TV set.

Radiation, you see.

Now the Cold War's over

I read sci-fi in the corner

Of the living room.

INSTINCT

Yet again

She's got

The hots

For the man

Who came

To repair

The orgasmatron.

Wearwolf 10

CIVIS ROMANVS SVM

When in Rome

Do as the Romans do;

One and one

Makes eleven.

FOREWORD

There are some of you

Here tonight we don't fit in,

Don't you know it's a poetry reading?

You're not supposed to know the words.

DIRECTIVE

The light

At the end

Of the tunnel

Was switched off

In order to

Save electricity.

Wearwolf 11, Christmas 1994

CONTESTED TERRITORY

A dialogue of traffic,

The nod of perhelion,

The come-on from a thousand stars.

The game we play

Mimics a kind of tag-wrestling

Lasting for countless centuries,

Each death simultaneously reborn.

You must excuse us though;

The planet is our audience.

IS THIS IT?

Night follows day:

Day follows night.

But then what?

Wearwolf 8

COMMERCIAL DECISION

In the shops

The January sales

Didn't start

Until December

Last year.

DISCOVERY

Civilisation

Began with

The first

Archaeologists.

Wearwolf, Six

CORRIDORS OF POWER

"You must remember, Counsellor Khak

That these humans are a proud race

With a history of tens of thousands

Of years of space exploration and colonisation;

They won't easily accept charity."

CHECKLIST

In the event of fire:-

i) Approach the stone circle from the south

ii) Touch each of the stones in turn,

walking in a clockwise direction

(NB: All stones are automatically

touched with the right hand.)

iii) Always enter the circle from the south

iv) Always depart the circle towards the north.

All staff and residents are to gather in the harvest

in an orderly manner.

PLEASE NOTE: The Fire Brigade will never arrive.

Wearwolf 19

"Mummy, put the light on

It's too dark in here:

I want to be born today-

My horoscope says so."

Wearwolf 5, Autumn 1992

PAPER TIGERS

Headlines rush

Towards tomorrow

As half a dozen boys

With the world

On their shoulders

Eagerly turn

To the back page

And choose their

Words carefully.