On strike action: Convenience & Inconvenience

‘I took the tube today just to see what all the fuss was about.’

Poem: No, oxi, nein

When you held the knife at my throat and told me not to cry, while pressing it harder and drawing…

Deus ex machina: Goin’ hungry

It was all rather matter of fact when she asked for seconds. Just a couple of extra fish fingers and…

Deus ex machina: Forged and formed

Forged in the inferno of wars, beneath collapsing homes hidden in deep tunnels and makeshift shelters.

Deus ex machina: The Train

There once was a train that sped through the country laying tracks before and behind itself chewing up fields and…

Deus ex machina: Hope and Truth talk of Power

I spoke of Power to Truth, and Truth giggled at my innocence. Truth let loose a belly laugh, and asked,…

Deus ex machina: Moments

There was never a moment when I chose to be hungry. There was never a moment when I chose to…

Deus ex machina: Monopoly Man

Standing silently upon a tall building’s top floor, a man stares out surveying a city he knows well, or at…

Deus ex machina: god from the machine

‘In this context, the term deus ex machina was chosen too for the possible connotations of the translated words, which lead to questions seeking to determine what could be the ‘machine’, and the ‘god’?’

Poem: Where was I, where will you be?

When they came for you was I with you there or did I find an last-minute excuse to be…

So Retro… or, Why I am protesting on 20th June

‘When did this become a country that took pride in putting ‘poor’ people on TV to be gawped at and labelled as ‘the problem’, and when did we become a viewing public that revels in arguing over who was the most awful scrounging scumbag of the lot of them?’