Saturday 30 December 2017

ELEMENTARY SHERLOCK

‪ELEMENTARY SHERLOCK

Now that the godawful British TV‬
‪Has nothing at all to offer to me‬
‪My telly viewing's been on DVD‬
‪Binge-watching the show‬ Elementary‬

‪Preconceptions get a bit of a knock‬
‪My opinion might very well shock‬
‪Yet risking becoming a laughing stock‬
‪It's far more rewatchable than Sherlock‬

MAWH, Dec 2017


Monday 25 December 2017

AN ENTIRE DOCTOR WHO

AN ENTIRE DOCTOR WHO

How can we have had
An entire Doctor Who
In the space and time
Since my mother died

How can there have been
An entire televisual
Span of a Time Lord
That she never saw

How could this happen
Even just those eyebrows
Were a month after
She would breathe no more

MAWH, Dec 2017

Thursday 21 December 2017

BBC PLEA

BBC PLEA

I always used to love
The dear old BBC
Once upon a time
They made such great TV

Instead of ghastly nonsense
For all the family
Or soapy so-called dramas
That are far too shouty

Could you just once
Respond to my heartfelt plea
And actually make some programmes
That I'd like to see

MAWH, Dec 2017

Another year passes with not one new drama I've bothered looking at and not one "entertainment" show I'd bother crossing the room to hit the on switch for... Two or three old favourites still get recorded out of habit, but even they often get deleted without a viewing. If it wasn't for the Radios 3 & 4, the entire lot would simply pass me by...



Thursday 14 December 2017

IT IS FORBIDDEN (PART ONE) LYRICS

If anybody wants to work up the music for this (I’m thinking a Leonard Cohen/Tom Waits vibe) we might decide to enter it for Eurovision ;-)

(This, by the way, is how you end up with “Dalek Invasion of Earth, the Musical” or a full concept album)


IT IS FORBIDDEN (Part One)

It is forbidden (forbidden)
To dump bodies
Into the river (the river)

It might be a river (the river)
It looks like
Moving water to me
Radiation nil (Oxygen normal)

Pressure normal
It’s an Earth reading
We might be
Somewhere in London (the river)

It is forbidden (forbidden)
To dump bodies
Into the river (the river)

It's uncanny
The word I was looking for
Was decay
It's most odd (Most odd)

I wouldn't spoil your
Homecoming for all the world
Pretty deserted
Probably Sunday

It is forbidden (forbidden)
To dump bodies
Into the river (the river)

Look at all this neglect
All over the place
It's been abandoned
(All of it)

There's always a mess
With construction (construction)
There's not a sign of any
People anywhere

It is forbidden (forbidden)
To dump bodies
Into the river (the river)

Be careful, my child
The ship!
Don't go too near, my boy
(It’s not safe)

The whole bridge has collapsed
It's all crumbling
We're going to need help
To shift this

It is forbidden (forbidden)
To dump bodies
Into the river (the river)

Here we are
Standing by the Thames
We've been here quite a while
(How long?)

Quarter of an hour
Twenty minutes?
What have we heard?
Nothing (Precisely nothing)

It is forbidden (forbidden)
To dump bodies
Into the river (the river)

No sound of birdsong
No voices - No sound of shipping
Not even the chimes
Of old Big Ben (Uncanny)

What you need is
A jolly good smacked bottom
I'll go and wet my handkerchief
In the river (the river)

It is forbidden (forbidden)
To dump bodies
Into the river (the river)

It is forbidden (forbidden)
To dump bodies
Into the river (the river)

MAWH, December 2017

(Adapted from an original script by Terry Nation)



Wednesday 13 December 2017

UNSEEN TOWBAR

UNSEEN TOWBAR

There's an awful pain
Such a pain the like of which
We will never talk

The pain of a shin
Hitting an unseen towbar
In the morning dark

MAWH, 131217

Sunday 10 December 2017

SUNDAY AFTERNOON POEMETTE

SUNDAY AFTERNOON POEMETTE

‪Full of a cold‬
‪I haven't ventured‬
‪More than a few feet‬
‪Outdoors into the snow‬
‪My head hurts‬

‪I cracked open‬
‪The box set I bought‬
‪Of brand new Twin Peaks‬
‪Two episodes in‬
‪My head hurts‬

‪If I'd gone to‬
‪A modern art show‬
‪Arm brain in a tree‬
‪Would make me say "Toss Wank"‬
‪My brain hurts‬

MAWH,101217