Dubai Days manuscript

Digesting the Plans of the Cunning



Aug 18


There’s no confusion.

There never was a solution.

What I now understand

Is that this was always the plan.

My cunning needs to eat yours for breakfast and
defecate it by lunch.

There will be a stench

Wafting through the door

But it’s yours.























This is a detail from a painting by the Nigerian
abstract expressionist artist Yusuf Seidu Okus.

To learn more about his exhibitions and to purchase
his work, please visit
http://artbyyusufokus.blogspot.com/



Dolphins and Rhinos



May 18


Dolphins are just gay sharks

And rhinos lesbian unicorns.



















Done



Dec 17


We are come a long way Toto.
Far from the days
Of the man with a thousand faces
And the man with a thousand voices.
All this posturing and preening
And opining is
Done.























Earthly Commotions



23rd Oct 18


Only cause and effect.

Teeth remain and the mirrors reflect.

The fingerprints of the masons and mathematicians

Are imprinted upon my blood cells.

The shock

Of love and knowledge
Held at ransom.

I am barren.

Buckling under

A mile-thick glacier.

Stand and sway with the moon

And the sun silently revolves

Around its own nemesis.
Memories lobotomised

And the sacred sodomised,

Our species suffer from amnesia.

I am certain

Nothing survives.

Everything taken, nothing owed.
Rows upon rows

Of chained up slaves.

Suddenly,

Or perhaps sooner or later,

The stars set in motion the process of aid

After the carnage of all our earthly commotions.