Land of trance

2. You have to surrender to the madness, to the constant cacophony of sound that assails you night and day. You have to surrender to the extremes of human existence. Death and life dance down the same avenue of trees like in a Woody Allen movie. You walk past patched up hovels and a mother […]

Samosa Salvation

Gripped by uncertainty I fled to India shambolic and desperate seeking light to deliver me from the dark horrors of Melbourne life. I wanted God in a hurry and India had over thirty million of them , I wasn’t greedy, one would do, as there sure as hell wasn’t one back in the jungle of […]

Milk crate bed

we wore pork pie hats we listened to Patti Smith rage we made love on your old milk crate bed my blood in your veins I bought you a book of love poems by Neruda you gave me your mouth bending into morning my tongue trailed along your back you quivering in the soft light […]

Veiled curtain

Christian prayer on a sea of shit in a Hindu world. Mary and Kali two faces of the divine virginal and wild. I watched the outline of her body. through the veiled curtain. I sat and watched in silence as she faced the other way. The curve of her hips and arse so perfect in […]

Songs of experience.

I got a broken foot and I hobble up and down the street singing songs of experience. Dylan is my constant companion from my Astoria hotel to the blue sky cafe. I see Captain sunshine he waves to me as I pass by. Street urchins warn me to be careful. Transvestites hang outside the cafe. […]

Constant rain

India has seeped into my skin like constant rain I am a monsoon man where all about me is constant sorrow And sometime joy. The beggar and the fake , the real and unreal Here illusion rains into reality as storm surges into light Time a meaningless word A memory present is already past. A […]