Ongoing sporadic journal of the overeducated, and underemployed. The title derived from Coupland’s description of cubicle land; the corporate ghetto. Random photos and thoughts. Left the ghetto, never happier. This still a work in progress

02 November 2017

Femme Fatale- .02.11.17
Hausfrau
Frantically  out-of-place
then
Lady in red
gangster Papi
looking over her shoulder
now
Lawyer
logical evolution
each time
Femme Fatale
each time

01 November 2017

Saint Jill
All these years
I have carried you
today I
became you 
loving 
no one
nothing 
just death 
you remember 
her our 
favourite lover
caressing 
kissing
us
whilst 
we were high
knowing
we’d
flee 
to her 
when we came
down
crashing .02.11.17
I fell to earth
expelled
Angel
screamed
salacious
promises’
signalled her love
from a roof
50 floors high
I was
Coming down
crashing  hard
before 
the pavement
Angel snatched  
me away 
a kiss
and a spliff
not crashing 
flying



27 October 2017

22.10.17-underground
Angel
came
underground
looking to
get  fucked-up
fucked hard
recognition
she
patroness 
of
cheap motels
lost weekends 
fiery  rendez vous
If you wait 
heaven comes
to you
underground


19 October 2017

16.10.17-watch 
nothing lasts forever
moving past
that old movie
   haunting 
me
chucking sorrows
hunting Angels
chasing BLISS 
savour
horrifying
beauty 
annihilates
THEN
consecration
restoration
redemption
sanctification
beatification
transformation 
watch this space
new movie
launching 

17 October 2017

rape

I am humbled today reading women’s stories. I am outraged at how commonplace this is. I had a girlfriend who was stalked by a Deputy, and I managed to put him in his place.
Mumsy was crying one day after work she swore me to z
Secrecy, The fellow unfortunately had an accident a few days later. It seems a ruffian on a motorcycle drove him off the rode fortunately the time with his arm in a cast let him see the light.
I am wishing we had  “market justice” in India groups of women attack rapist with rusty knives cutting rapist genitals. Then rub chilli peppers
 I am realising all the women I have known without exception have been raped.  Something this endemic must be societal. The maths does not support this being done by outliers. A society holding back and brutalising 50% cannot progress.  This cannot stand, be business as usual the cost is too high.
Women you are brave and humble and touch everyone reading your truths.  You are exposing everyday injustices; everyday monsters and that thing cannot survive in daylight.

14 October 2017

14.10.17 -tonight
alchemy
majik
music 
potions
music
ignition
Connexion
chemical reaction 
spontaneous 
combustion 
explosions 
are how 
universes are created
tonight



13 October 2017

13.10.17-cocktails
Self-incrimination
self-loathing
Self-medicating
I’ll make a cocktail
to fill
an empty  place
the 
dark cocktail
hour
of the
soul

08 October 2017

08.10.17-Stunning
Deadly
Addictive
everything
Ever loved
all
dreams
nightmares
coming
at me 
on long l legs
click of stilettos on the dance floor
rhythm of hips 
Chanel red lips
a conversation of desire
softly
loudly
the highs
the crash
knowing  
this ends
badly
messy
but 
she’s stunning


06 October 2017

29.09.17-video poker
this was never 
going to work
I am 
too old 
I don’t do
digital lust 
a club
pulling
a bird 
meltdown
snogging 
heat
passion
Queen of hearts
and
Joker
Winning 
hand
go 
all in



01 October 2017

28.09.17-moment
Bowie on the screen singing 
Gin, flake fuelling 
me blood
YOU 
exciting
me eyes
mesmerizing 
me mind
this isn’t 
YOU
this  isn’t 
ME
a
moment 
perfect
world
a moment
stretches
or
 never happens
no
fancying alternate realities
at 03:30
absorbing
alchemy and majik
into my blood and brain
and listening to 
Bowie and NIN
a
flawed world
just a  moment
I’ll
take it


24 September 2017

23.09.17- tears in the rain
not just
a face 
 in the  crowd
not just
a random  night
not just
a pretty bird 
in the aviary
memory
of you 
Strong
you
were never 
just
lost
to me
like
so many
tears 
wept
in the 
rain
just
someone
I love

23 September 2017

09.17-other
ghosts
earthquakes 
hurricanes
plague of frogs
whiskey 
sex
Ghost
Accuses 
Not same 
Not me
Jealousy screams
Pink spider
dances
Smiling
like
like a field of mannequins
pulls m me in 
Her web
I give myself over to her
letting the venom
Me
taking
me
the
Other  side
far
from 
pain

22 September 2017

22.09.17-coffee
Tying my chuck
leg brushes beard
Sharing
tables
smiles
connexion
HOT
Coffee

20 September 2017

20.09.17- transmutation
other worldly
beauty
alien
surreal
demonic 
fingers 
strong
supple
caressing 
exploring violating
pulling 
underground
a little sacrifice
pleasure
pain
lines 
blur
fantasy
reality
waking
dreams
transmutation

18 September 2017

18.09.17-chuffed
butterfly visiting you
is a spirit 
Jewel knew
spent
time
between worlds
you alight
on me shoulder
regonise you 
stay
you’re
light and beautiful
want you 
evermore
Blissfully
chuffed

17 September 2017

17.09.17-muse
come with me
I’ll make
your flesh
poems
your voice
paintings
MUSE

15 September 2017

07.08.15-star
when I met 
you
ou 
belonged  to no one
and 
everyone
the soul of a  pink spider
 morally Flexible and fluid
you 
kept saying you were tired of feeling crazy
when  you broke 
I threw the pieces across the sky
they  sparkled and became 
thousands’ of stars
I still
Look into the night  sky
and
try
to
hold  you
my star

14 September 2017

14.09.17
torn fishnets
cocktail dress, stilettos
make up flawless
laser gaze
vicodin in her blood 
cocaine in her nose
BEAUTY
costs
BEAUTY
hurts
recognise
in those eyes 
pain
sorrow
that smile
holding 
back
madness
sorrow
scars that revival mine
an assemblage curated over decades
a deeper 
colour
of blue
here  I  go
tangled up in her
fishnets
tangled up
in
fishnets
in
blues
in
 her

12 September 2017

12.09.17-haunted
spectre disappearing
I came too near
awaking
recognising 
status quo
second prize
insult
disappearing
underground
the sacraments
 begin powder into water into blood
holy communion
sanctifying  my soul
freezing 
out
loss
repentance
Consecrating
angel 
to 
demon
no longer 
HAUNTED

07 September 2017

02.09.17 disappear
going down 
underground
deep
angry
at
meself
CARED
just
your 
trick
watch
I
disappear
ashes to ashes
dust to dust
nothingness  to nothing

05 September 2017

02.09.17-Calling
calling
blue bunny
calling
shades
calling 
the unholy Ghost
pink spider
black sea tan
pneumatic chest
Dancing
allegro
Plié
Smile
like 
an ocean of mannequins
calling me 
into
her web
calling 
MORE

04 September 2017

02.09.17-whore
me
blue eyed
whore
that
adore
keeper 
of
delights
keeper
of
light
deeper
in me 
ravaged
heart
whore 
forevermore
love
galore
for
me
whore



01 September 2017

31.08.17
take your hand?
once
I held
you
stopped
your bleeding
from a thousand cuts
calmed 
raging
against yourself
cured cancer 
self your doubt 
sent all the monsters running
you
held
off
walked 
yes
the ecstasy 
always
worth
agony
give me your hand

Beloved
rave on
I
found
light and sound
waves
of
enlightenment
grabbing
filaments
connecting
to me brain
soul
LIGHT
COLOURS
rushing
in
filling
the space
where
beloved
occupied

30 August 2017

30.08.17-Ghost
Ghost proclaims love
walking out the door
sway of her hips
our lady
of
million  sorrows
some begged
some  borrowed
some hidden
some
forbidden
for
tomorrows
sorrow
she leaves
few behind
to remember her by
as
she vanishes
as ghosts 
always do



27 August 2017

26.08.17-numb
I am different 
she screams 
it’s  all the same
white horse 
underground 
it don’t 
matter
it’s all the same
NOT
angry
NOT
sad 
JUST
equistely
empty
JUST
exquisitely
numb

25 August 2017

Revenge  Body
    Going out begins by punching a prayer into the ATM. and answered by a few ’20s. I head towards a favoured dive. Nice dark, playing Gorillaz  “Clint Eastwood” as I enter I take a stool in the back.
    My back to the wall all exits inline vision.  I see her enter. The sunlight entering the doorway gives an almost dream-like quality. She looks familiar, but I can’t place her.
    I walk over I’m dressed vaguely like a Ramone and she’s in business chic. I am sussing she’s here because no one she knows or, anyone they know would be caught dead in here.
My memory cannot find her, but I want to know her.  I walk over a man in his 20's obstructing me. “Pardon, mate,” I say
“Bro what’s your hurry Bro?’ a man with a backwards hat and backwards sunglasses.

“Excuse Me,” I counter.
“Bro why so hostile?”
“If you’re done saying Bro, fucking step aside, bro,” I growl.
I grab someone’s empty Shiner Bock bottle just in case.  Looking at him. “How’s your luck bro? You want to roll the dice, cunt.” The bartender comes over in a forced cheery voice here’s some shots boy’s.” Letting the air back in the room. Toss back the tequila and walk over to her,” This is the part where I say something. Witty, but I am not that clever, so how about hello, I am Marlowe, and you are?”
“That is witty,” She says.” I am Elise, and I think we both run in the same park.
“You run I walk a dog. I knew I had seen you before” I flashing on her lithe form running I gesture the bartender for drinks.
“Love, fancy going out to the patio for a chat?” I ask. She nods and follows me I brush past Bro and take her by the hand leading her into the cool spring evening. I notice an intense stare from her pale blue eyes and meet it. There’s a conversation going on.  Elise speaks first, “So what’s going on Marlowe?”
    “Not much I just wanted to meet you, so roll the dice, walk over,” I answer.
“Good answer can I ask another question? Elise asks.
“Shoot” I answer.
“Behind you giving me fuck you stare a stick with tits, platinum hair, heavy eyeliner, early 20’s, and I am guessing, swimming daddy issues ring a bell?” Elsie says sarcastically.
Me friend ghosted s couple of weeks ago, she always ghosts being a “good wife”, whatever the fuck that means. I ended up hanging with Katie Lyn, nothing too serious. She’s sweet and fun”
“I am sorry that was about me. I am coming out of a relationship and the bimbo was the symptom, not the disease. , We don’t know each other that well.” Elise says. “I would guess being a “good wife, would include not doing you,” she says laughing softly Respond by hugging her. She stiffens and then clutches me.
“Sure we know each other, you’re my kind,” I answer
“I don’t need warm and fuzzy, and I need to feel something tired of being numb; just be authentic and we’re friends
“I authentically need another drink, want to join me?”  I answer.

“I think I’d like that,” Elise says following me inside.
I gesture for around to bartender. We both grab a drink and find a nice dark corner, wordlessly seemingly out of instinct.
“Your kind, you mean your type?” some sort of Londonesse phrase?” Elise says trying to figure me out
“Love, I meant I recognise you in some manner I am not sure of an instinctively one see’s another, same subspecies and yes my type,”  I say looking her in the eyes.
She slams me against the wall when she kisses me.  I grab her as she snakes around me. Grinding and moaning like a cat in heat. I pull her hair and she responds with a growl. I put my hand on her breast and her nipple stiffens under my fingers I pinch and she growls.  Her hips are rocking we have the attention of about half the bar.
“You like being watched, don’t you pet?”
“You came up for air “ Bartender says handing me a cold bottle of water. I nod smile and take a drink and take the bottle to an out-breath, Elise.
    “Let's bounce,” I say, “You're overdressed.” Elise takes my hand and we leave.
The cool evening air surrounds us in the car park. “ Your place,” I say
“No problem, “ Elise says sliding into driver's seat shedding her jacket putting her hair down, and unbuttoning two buttons on her blouse. She’s in full seduction mode. I just say “You’re so fucking sexy, knocking me out love.”
“Hotter, than  tits on a stick?”
“Abso-fucking-lutely!  so lush, so fit !” no one else in my mind, nothing else on my mind. I run my eyes over a weapons-grade body.
“So you can find happiness in a woman who is past 23?”
“She’s a girl, you're a woman,” I answer. I give her a kiss, running my hands over her body firm, with soft tanned skin.
“Let’s get out of the car park I don’t want a hot hour in the car want you all night.  ”
I say.
 “That’s going to happen,” She growls locking eyes.”  The chemistry is palatable

I let myself admire her body even in the half-light of the dash lights I can see definition in her legs, and I wonder if she has a thigh gap.
“You like what you see, Marlowe,” Elise asks
“Dogs bollocks,” I answer.
“That’s good?” Elise asks
“The best, “ I answer
“This is all new to me I wasn’t a size 4, a few months ago.” Elise says.” I started running to relieve stress, then I was looking better I kept it up my ex-came to pick up some flash drives I saw the look in his eyes, like yours’ hunger.  “
    The combination of hormones’ and gin syncopated beat of ambient playing make the drive surreal. We pull into a gated cul de sac I follow her to her 3-story townhouse.
“I am keeping the house. He can start over Elise says defiantly.
She opens the door I follow inside, she locks behind us. I push her against the wall kissing her hard pushing her skirt down she wriggles out of it I pull down lacy panties Unfastening her bra her arms pull back to take blouse and bra down dropping to one knee admiring her landing strip give a quick nibble kissing my way up finding her pink nipples tan lines. I am undressing as I do this,  nibbling her soft lips pulling her to the floor. She lands on me and I pull her under she and me wraps around me, legs arms, pulling me into her. Our rhythm matches. Her red nails on my back. Her hips match mine she screams. She moans growls, as she arrives.
    I awake to her saying. “I’ll save you an Uber I am going to the park.”
    “Want to shower?” she asks playfully taking me by the hand leading me upstairs we walk into a bedroom on a king-sized bed. My clothes are laid out.  I realize we both slept on an area rug.  She is a robe and I am starker’s, but then we exchanged bodily fluids she points at the bed, and says? Give me a moment to brush my teeth. “
I wait thinking my teeth are furry too I am thinking.  Elise hands me a travel brush when I am done I turn on the water and slide in I look up and Elise is sliding in the bed I follow. She is growling, Ride it like you stole it. Anything you want. “
    Anything, did you want to put it there? I have lubed myself and I am relaxed.
    I start to enter  her slowly tentatively she pushes back against me growling yowling, “Cum in me!” Grinding her hips I caress her clit as she does, fondling her breasts kissing nibbling the back of her neck. She shudders screaming “OH Fuck Oh god! shuddering sweating she collapses.
We shower I lay back on the bed  I am watching her get into her running clothes.
 He begged for everything you’ve had. I wouldn’t I couldn’t. there was space I could feel it.” she says, adding” I started running to burn off that, stress., then
“I enjoyed you, how was revenge.? I ask.
    “Sweet, do  you feel used?” Elise asks.
I feel fan fucking tastic, don’t get weird, I sussed it out at the bar.” I  answer. I find my clothes and dress.
I’ll make coffee” Elise calls. I find a chair in the kitchen to check my phone.
    Hi” Elise says comes in running clothes big smile. high ponytail. she grinds coffee puts it in the machine, and the aroma fills the room. We’re well beyond small talk phase.
How do you take it? She asks.
“Black and proud,” I answer. She puts on music and brings coffee. We drink it quietly.
 
I guess we need to get going she says. I follow.  We arrive at the park quickly. “I suck at goodbye's, but I won’t forget you” I offer.
    You, don’t have to say that” She says.in tone, that says I do
We’re both in the park most days, we could get kinky and talk sometime. I say getting out of the car.  I walk home to grab my dog to go back to the park, for the morning walk.  a car slows down I notice Elise waving. I wave back.  I keep going forward she’ll catch up
07.08.17-spirit
watch  
the way she 
moves
those
expressions 
 elegant hands 
fluttering
I must’ve been thinking of you 
when I 
conceived
Fearless
sarcastic
spirit 
Whoever you were with had no idea
your spirit
was
deep  in me
all she 
got was 
a shell

24 August 2017

23.08.17-fade
I realised there
are many 
 of me
in your world 
though none 
so dark
none
so vampyric
none 
so demonic
all betrayed
keep your clones
I’d rather sleep alone 
I wont look back
in
anger
I won’t look back
I’ll fade to black
that's what demons do
darkness of underground
envelopes me
feeling like 
a ravenous lover



23 August 2017

23.08.17-ruin
she was 
beautiful music
about
terrible things
Picasso’s Guernica
Siren
Seraphim

walking past
corpses  of her lovers
in her 
web
oblivious
blasĂ©’
jaded
warnings evaporated 
away
knowing
she was
creation
destruction
fell
onto
her embrace
she was
always going
to 
end badly
 she has 
always
been
my ruin

21 August 2017

21.08.17-dragon
It’s happened 
dragon is eating the sun
fear not
I will chase the dragon

19 August 2017

19.08.17-muse
would 
have
created you
a
a painting
poem
that dissolves slowly 
leaving
a beautiful
feeling 
memory
like a night with a  lover
your  siren’s call
intertwined
in
Your 
beauty
warmth
essence 
MUSE




17 August 2017

15.08.17-promised
looking for my Angel
in these  dirty sheets
looking
for my Angel 
on these  dirty streets
Looking
for my Angel 
in 
this dirty underground
I look for my Angel 
in 
looking  for my Angel
in these
dirty jeans
Angel
promised
a clean well lit place


14 August 2017


14.08.17-detonation
detonate 
it

pull 
 the
trigger
push 
the 
plunger
pull
the
lever
alchemy 
 dark magik
rushing through me veins
 to 
centre
of 
me 
soul
brain 
 heart
COLURS 
LIGHTS
SONG
ART 
EXPLODING
EXPLODING
EXPLODING
into
visions
philosophy
prophecy 
dreams
exploding
realities
fantasies
CONSCIOUS
by
explosions
taking
me 
higher
CONNEXTING
to
heaven?
limbo
god 
collective consciousness
this how the  universe was born
explosions

07 August 2017

07.08.17-memory
heart learns
what
soul’s knows
one
never
quite
forgets
lovers  forever
ghost
memory 3 AM
silenced
with
a shot
a new lover
for the moment
but
always
alive  in memory

04 August 2017

04.08.17-vice
Entangled limbs,
gently swaying hips
pink spiders
cherry kissed cyanide
just 
an outline of the
vices you use
she alleges 
pulling me 
into bed
another 
vice

01 August 2017

31.07.17-cherry cyanide
Cherry comes 
long spindly legs and arms 
close around 
me
pink spiders 
get me 
dying  and living reconciled
she follows 
underground
far
from
hollowed ground 
purity a stranger
to begin 
dark
sacraments 
my little 
human sacrifice
beauty carries 
karmic debt
me
penance
kisses me 
I
savour
the intensity
and 
recognise 
flavour
cherry cyanide 

29 July 2017

29.07.17-muse

elle a 
obsession
for 
Marilynn Monroe 
Edie 
perfect shade of champagne coloured hair
Elle était amoureuse
passion plays
dance floor
our girlfriend
perfect high
more covers
fetishized
hated
for her 
beauty
and 
casual sensuality 
seeking
escape
from  
things
she couldn’t name 
found
in magazines
under lazy smoke rings
in our bed
denied it
but in
my heart
she was my muse

27 July 2017

26.07.17-miss you
surprising call
rendezvous
I miss you
she says
walking away
I look 
at me 
drink
whispering 
until 
the next
episode
over it
a prayer
to
jaded 
distant
god