Empire of Whimsy

Surrounded by vices as strange as sliced toast Interacting with many half-living, half-ghost. Some glowing brightly, some dulled by life...

This I drew this for my mother-in-law on the occasion of my in-laws' 50th wedding anniversary. It is an image of her on her wedding...

I feel I am just waking up from 10 years in Van Winkle dust. Head is clearing, footsteps lighter. Horizons wide and vision brighter. Em...

Once there were three: The magic number- 3 witches; 3 wishes; 3 wise men. Maiden runs away; goes to see a crone. The witch of the East ...

Come and meet some friends of mine, we'll go to where they stay with toasting glasses held aloft and witty repartee. I'm sure w...

He says I'm not the me I was, That I have changed irreparably. He says we argue all the time. Ironically, I disagree. He says he lo...

I am sick of helping the sick And getting nothing in return. No sick pay, no thanks. Just above minimum wage I earn. I am sick of heari...

Three years of ridding myself of my rage left me bellaputrescent and old for my age. I appear to you now as a mere wizened spectre; A wr...

Hang ups fall of in The Basement. Woven webs hang fallen girls. Pricey silence and finite liberty. Safety in networking. Too tangled to...

Daily I hunch as a pensive Paolo Upon the stool of derailed dreams. Bathing in burning garlic fumes and the stench of chip fat long sinc...

I steamed and spun one London night, As trains did long ago. Euphoria; experimental; Honesty and woe. My facial vines of eyeliner mysti...

Choose existence. Choose to talk to your firiends. Choose to get the fuck on with it, even if it means you'll have bad dreams. Choose to...

The signs above my head read thusly: It is 18 degrees C. It is 4:42 AM It is prohibited to smoke. I must wear a seat-belt. To my right,...

After a glorious production the sun bows graciously behind the trees on my right to rapturous vesperturnal applause. To my left the bats ...

He is a misanthropic Dr Seuss character Fantastic and forlorn. In his tower, viewing Camelot. A spaceful time; timeless but for A dinosa...

Even in the midst of night the distant wail of T-Rex's cousins reach me. And even when I am not right and fall and fail I let the le...

just beyond the precipice in the corner of the sky exists a land as hard to see as huckleberry pie. The creatures there are bound by light b...

Heed the prophet as she comes; bitten nails, mascara runs. What once entranced now nauseates. Love once inspired, now apathates. No bal...

If love is love as love should be, then why does it enslave, not free? Love is a power - nay, a force that rivals all but gravity ...

One crystal-aired and clear-skied day I wandered pondering away, To discover if the tales were true; Is lunar rock just cheese of blue? ...

It's too late to leave We're all here now Why don't we make the best of it? We could stay and chill, maybe take some pills. Mut...

Hey Gorgeous! How's it going? I had a word with Pepe Le Pious this eve as he was up to his usual tricks. needless to say he took it like...

Oh basilesque basilisk, you've captured me again! No golden fleece of gain to reach, just smoky sublimation. Fossilised and randomised...

To err is human, to forgive divine What course of action will be thine? Heroic vengeance, stoic acceptance. How sincere if any repentance? A...

Kiss me love and let me die, No backward glance, no tearful eye No longing or lingering last embrace No staring blankly into space Forg...

My heart belongs to another, My body another still. Some things I cannot explain to you dear And other things I never will. My life is...

Let me with thoughts just silent be And smoke this rollie; 43. I have no urgent place to go, I’m not alone. I have my Woe. She dances o...

I’ve tried to explain this rootless of times but all come befuddled like passions of crimes and all I convey seems like paranoia when al...

In home improvements old and new, Think of us, we’ll think of you. We people who were here before, We built that wall, we laid this floor...

How dare the Sunshine show his face, When with illusory Autumn Summer’s replaced And offers only cold embrace To those who crave his warmth ...

Once upon a Summertime there lived a golden prince In a palace built from beans that grew from kitchen sinks. He went outside when m...