Charlie Baylis is from Nottingham, England. He is the Editor of Anthropocene. His poetry has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and once for the Forward Prize. His most recent publication is Swimming (the Red Ceiling Press) He spends his spare time completely adrift of reality. Â
hello kitty ii
jenny left japan low 45s hello kitty
japan drizzly jenny dizzy my head in her hands
double helix boom tokyo lit up in red eyes
stadium lights soft sleepless sighs
oboe blow neon night too much fucking neon
o no yoko i am the jealous guy y alors?
so am i suck your supermarket sushi
i hope you are still hunting me
the gates of hell beckon crayola violence
haunted by tumbleweed black beatles trolling beneath the eaves
a splash of lemon on your knees oranges and broken dreams
thrown at me a flash of teeth jenny flips up the piano
bubbles debubble in the milkshakes of tokyo
how long before the show begins?
diego maradona
compressed through indifference
fuck these mutherfuckers
bite the heads off the bears
in the plane crash
toss your belongings to the atlantic
flick a v at the pilot fucking idiot can’t even drown
nonchalance exubérance en permanence
diego maradona stade de france
neon eyed delinquent the ball at his feet
the show about to begin
hard worker seventy million dollars
in the back of a cab
do you think through bars
we reach anywhere higher
neant-sur-yvel
i open a box
caging the
light of a star
