Built Like a Comeback
I look at the world like a dodgy old van, if it rattles too loud, I’ll still make a plan. Bit of tape, bit of swearing, bit of stubborn pride, then I’ll drive the…
Fuck It, It Is What It Is
Sometimes life needs a proper plan, a list of jobs and a capable man. Sometimes the list can stay where it sits, while I take one breath and just say… Fuck it. My brain’s…
The Heart They Said Was Clear
We found out when it tried to kill my brother, a Marine, fit as fuck, built to last. One minute strong, next fighting his own heart, family genetics moving fast. Then my other brother.…
The Women I Couldn’t Love Properly
I was seventeen when the kids mum came in, too young for the life already beginning. Within months there was a baby on the way, and I knew right then I weren’t built to…
The Caged One’s Still Awake
2am Monday morning, smashed and half folded, eyes like piss holes, brain overloaded. About to hit bed, but I don’t feel like me, like my head’s left the room and my body’s still drinking…
The Machine Never Lived It
They say AI made my music, like I typed in pain and pressed create, like grief came with a download button and trauma turned up neatly on a plate. Fuck off. The poetry is…
Old Blood, New Laws
Before they drag my past up like they’ve found a buried bone, let me save them all the digging, I’ll show the ugly on my own. I weren’t born clean and gentle, with soft…
For Every Kind of Dad
This one’s for the dads who stayed, who learnt as they went along, who got half of it completely wrong but still kept turning up strong. For the dads on school run mornings, half…