Dextromethorphan out the bottle
to quell this awful coughing
Orange County 80
sniffed up drip past the epiglottis
that plug laid alotta rotten decisions upon us
that physician’s deep incision almost cost us
my mates made for shitty conversation
mostly concentrating
on past misdeeds of a salacious nature
Hypocrite
Cos my best dreams still consist
Of implicit suggestions of explicit conquests
Pristine pitch
My bars scratch that itch
a nerve pinch of wonder
sense of place, uncovered in abundance
full circumference, wander round the cadence
ponder in amazement at the fact I made it out
None too jaded now
The sun done shine when Big Pun died
fried, tongue tied, pyre too high
But rhymed so sly
This op-shop style guy with savings store-wide
Obelisk stylite with skinny fist held high

Bodies skittle like reeds
feed the loop digga
grip bottle out to see
tinnitus buzz bigger
abhorrent visions linger
hold tight my phantom finger
natural science can’t heal all scars
I’m getting sicker
magnetic
prognosticating peasant
in the present
means peace offering kinetic
heading past my presence
heretic deadlift class misfit dismissed with effort
task big hit
the large kick
can’t exist without the snare rip
I’m tipsy
shed skin in the fuzz rain
for thrills I pick at the canine brain
and let my intact instinct
spill to think speak
for spells of a week
i didn’t speak for a whole millenia of days
became astute
observed ahead of me the ways
then resigned to my fate
I inspired a blaze
fan higher the flames
fire pollutes like burning tyres

Forward march Trojan steed
running fast from debris
awesome nugs, awkward eve
charging making marks
blood on concrete
even still kinda sweet
floral scent on the breeze
glass sugar rose
drove Declan to deceit
citrus sour ice the tea
mission tonic clear to me
resist the power
I know best
36th degree
no badge of honour in the code
might be bitter might explore
my flow a series of tributaries unexplored
pulmonary archery far reaching
vascular artistry
Vitruvian arms
rippling outstretched
take the square
that circle caressed
every answer contained within
that divine breadth
a group of 3 singers on loop in my head
ink blunt wider vision
Ultra-visitor on the lawn
pillowed bed
alt twin to the Pusher
Ceephax acid until dawn
then left on read

Arise at high noon
in a miasma of gloom
wank’n bake times two
fry some bacon to chew
preferred you never knew
where I hide my sleeping body
restful coffin counting poppy seeds
feel free to forget properly
steam torn off a baguette
morning cup of contempt-us mundi
dark roast Robusta beans from Burundi

A furious punch to the gut
Not curious of your lunch
Through numerous Pollock sprays
Of blood upon concrete
Rorschach finds it humorous
He’s blottered up beyond belief
No mean feat
That dude was on LSD heaps
Believe
My life’s a majestic theatre
Mis-en-scene
At 15 my best dreams projected me
Into Britney Spears undies
Whitney clear on speakers
Witnessed unspeakable deeds
After the third time of slip and slide
Brit and I flip and ride
In her Dodge Vipe to the beach
Not quite what I should preach
But it’s evident I’m heaven sent
Like nudity on SBS
Not raring to be a parent
It’s apparent I’m dismissive
When your missus sidles near
And whispers to my left ear
“In this habitude Mister you’ll conceive this year”
With my attitude Sister best I recede from worst fear
The isolation of this island is fine by me
Gives me the time and space to incubate ideas

As I scan the land through bush see jacaranda
My handsome nostrils spill accosted babushka dolls of fog at random
On a tangent, signal noise shushed these answers
I struggled to push this pedal bike with no handles
The saline scent sailing up nasal
Sent me pale and awash with details
Of the days I washed up and derailed
Yeah, I wasn’t used to failure
Heel-kick abused me in the damn rooster teeth
Nailed teen me to a cinema seat
My fibula weak
Sinister forceps gripping eye-lids
Eyes wide and smile big
Then thinking cap brim
I’m thunderstruck stupid
A jar of manuka honey direct from the hive could heal my future?
I get too caught up in the minutiae
Rush to apply this herbal suture
This nervous human thermal burn
Intercept the staff of Caduceus

And I’m infected
Wrapped up inside rubbery jacket
Rejected
Fact check, blubbery
Can’t hack it
Expected
Flat-head stumbling
Through subjects
Dejected
Packed undead up to brain stem
From when my friend
Bumped his gnashers through my fashion
My neck went loose and my bowels too
With a nasty bite to boot
Shadow boxing who?
Nothing to punch but my dysfunctional trombone
Much maligned
Wrist hunched
All broke bone
I just stopped trying
Flopped from drop kick
Fled to drum kit
Knocked up a jungle rhythm quick
Humble crested galah flying

The Devil’s teat monologues
Pages moist I’ve got it going on
One woman lover, never had no madam
My wifey the baddest
Sure as the tide is rising and sure as I spit on it
The Clitterati clapping let’s keep it cracking
As lightning flashes
Unpredictable diction cool skipping school
Resisting teacher’s shit
that learning fed through ridicule
Encouraging suffering my suffrage millennial
As Gulf Stream cools breaking rules
Still burning fossil fuels
Praying at the vestibule
I question if you eat your vegetables
Table-vege-eatles over 9000 bald eagles
Screeching circling the steeple
Crying out for evil


Rivers of mercury
Certainly curb a fervent need to run amok
Internally
I quiver nervously
As spelunkers prepare to plunder
Prepare to rend stones asunder
for their own greed
Thoughts and prayers are ticker tape
Sanctify the bottom line
My third place an empty cafe
And my fourth an awkward silence
Arctic apex trapped in cages
Every fifth pace face the violence
sanctioned filled with rage
at a sixth straight staycation
seven wages of sin adjust for inflation
cost more to exist than we’ll ever be making
paradise cost-index
8 tipsy is infinite
clap hard enough you can make it rain
It’s hard to shift blame
we all mask our pain in different ways
My fav? Shrooms on a sunny day
My fav? Hop in a float tank

we heavy great Scott
hanging out to dry like wet socks off the balcony
in direct defiance of the rental agreement
tubes of rusting plumbing are flaking
seems like gold in our faces
seeping
can’t have this seeming
like the type of place
where the right can’t survive
and the wrong are left to their own devices to thrive
twice now we orbit
a rare spectacle
huh
takoyaki much harder to share when you’re the sucker from the tentacle
haruspex certainly not respectful
i’m just asking you to please
eviscerate me gentle
and oh sweet summer human
that destruction is mutually assured

Engrossing frozen pose
As a group noun of crows
Acts out just that
To one of their own
Between the struggles and moans
I witness them tug o’ war with bits
That used to sit betwixt the rib bones
Bewitched
I shiver at that brazen omen
Linger for a single tears final moment
And roll on homeward
More moulded by what i’ve seen
Than anyone else’s morbid dream
Nevertheless medical green
Load shedding a corporate scream
In a room built for purpose
Mobius walls of infinite surface
Liminal labyrinth got me whirling Dervish
Dizzy nervous
Cliff diving for clams
In a climate churlish
an Australian man
shazaam-ing tribal chants
As we all wait to dance on stolen land
with the Tuareg amidst a storm of sand
That mans aged hands whispered
through folds of fabric
His nails stroke the neck
As the Strat screams desert magic

Compassionate to the T and curious with the why
the fuck I even bother with this cannon fodder guy
NPC, pick me pick me
I preordered Pikmin 1 on GC back in ‘03
parasitic proximity to paraquat ridden city
crumbling edifice of everything
manifest identity theft
masquerade pest
fascist dog whistle breakfast
teeth vivid rust patina of your stained jesus neck-piece
necking red wine and coopers green,
smelling like feet
One day a year ain’t exercise homie
That’s defeat
redemption shawshank at your 4th hot take
as the dirt reverbates, hate rots in a Romanian prison
An invading system of zoonotic agents crawling up inside your -uh
Boring partnership nameless, listless, armpit sweat,
Macrodosed every meeting and still wasn’t quite there

Living life in fast motion
It’s a slippery slope
Skimmed across vast oceans
On a rickety boat
The kinda style
Ignorant hope
Missing the float
Too many greedy, sinister folk
I never found a proper home
Figured out on my own
It’s deep inside my bones
Not a physical abode
Better believe I stole that throne
The Sativa that grows through concrete
From New Orleans to the Philipines
I’ve been planting seeds
Read this open book of potent memory
Receive bespoke opal totems
And watch the Fadista feast
On wild beast skewered by bay leaf
Effectively I construct my own everything
Like this message from the edge of irrelevance
Irreverent facts human, not Heaven sent
I’m Zarathustra spitting obtuse scripture
So scribble notes from this teacher

It’s the unfocused arachnid
Hidden in the eaves
Weaving caffeine driven missives
Blown briskly by the breeze
Seeding rhythmic competition spirit
Fixed on enemies
My spun web dangles
A thread of tangled echo
Sung a languid manifesto
Sat atop a rickshaw
The poet of the pixel
Draped in a boa constrictor
Semaphore forsaken,
It died in the moonlight
Plenty more roid taking
I cast shadows to hide behind
and shout beats and rhymes
from valleys deep and wide
Rivulets of slime define the landscape to climb
To avoid this rancid, frantic abandon of truth
Construed by a few to
Frighten and confuse me and you
Titan crushed, Mistrust a mirage in the dunes
Especially when I’m begging for gin and juice
Set up camp with a view right here
Sativa scented leaf kaffir
Made vista disappear
I grow deeper into the abyss
A target that you just can’t miss
And gravity once thought of as flawless
Happily floors me with a bum rush of endorphins
It’s in a shocking state
This age you’re all applauding
Atlas back be broken
my facts Steven Hawking
You may detect a tiny hint of scorn when
A single bottle cap in current is the acorn
That blossoms into a maze of oak
Acres by acres
Some problems you just can’t fix my head aching
So just crop out of vacay pics you be taking

Pall-bearer by proxy
Halloween unboxing
My cousin’s looking poxy
And that Aunt she done forgot me
The art of noxious grief in silence
Rotting leaves tumble violently
Behind the cherry tree
Sipping whiskey looking peeved
To bury ya mum
You gotta flip a few rocks
As the seas rise
Bound to find a blue ringed octopus
Tiny minds lurk spineless
Yet toxin is a quick kiss
Wouldn’t find time to piss on the leg
Of that abusive prick
Glimmer gleam glint
The star witnesses shriek
But I’m stuck in reminiscence
Skipping passed the present weeks
The question encountered
Why the harsh scowl?
I spent 10,000 hard hours
Chasing that same dark tower
Snake devours progress
The cycle vicious
Through Juan de Fuca
Atop a Galway Hooker
The sea’s viscous
With pink singing scallops
And albatrosses hunting geoducks
Gun-slinging Uber-mencsch
Cutting his losses

Karma ain’t a bitch
it’s a rear-view mirror
Ka ain’t shit
that wheel’s burning rubber
I spent 10,000 pages
just to discover
I’ll always rhyme wrong
so why bother

Tropical fruit peel in the belly of the beast,
Fermented lychee feeds a river concrete
Congested arteries criss-cross through the smog,
Indonesian farmers burning palm logs,
Pregnant with potential, blood moon lunacy
Sky’s a violent hue, a blue violet bruise,
Bit of green,
No drone zone, shadows circle like vultures,
60,000 years of continuous culture,
Facts,
Scan the QR code to download the app,
On the edge of Cinnabar, Missingno I attack,
Make molehill from mountains.
Leave holes for the rats,
Slurp garum from ancient Roman fountain,
Like I’m drowning,
Skip the chalice,
Parachute lit aflame,
Aim for the clay
And embrace the terroir callous,
Crushed the cru at Domaine Chandon,
Maybe i’ll be remade another day,
Probably not,
So roast my bones down,
To form the gravy stock,
Maybe, lately, that bong smoke tastefully
Marinated my insides greatly
Uh-uh
Probably not
Acoustic levitation in an anechoic situation
Cooped up in this 4d cube not of my making
In this shameful nation of minnows
Painfully hooked
Semantic satiation
Pedantic expiation booked
Bone marrow murder
William Tell missed the apple
Bow and arrow surgeon
Over fresh gravel
Prestige living for the discerning boomer
Fantastic views over your future tundra
We the rest, the tumour scrutineers, the rabble
Now raised roused and proud
I am the senate squealed
The Galactic Republic’s repugnant masses
It’s hard being in public
Tough to stomach
New York summer, but our rubbish ain’t stacked it’s hidden
Abolish borders
Let Finnish boys skip to Inis More
And Polish hoarders rub shoulders
With British royals
Don’t wanna be a denizen anymore, it’s denigrating
Let me be a global citizen disintegrating
World passport, shouts to Yasiin
Who at 15 taught me how to dream
It was a winters eve
Rye in the Sazerac
Doors closed at 3
I lightly breathed “triple g n t”
And got just what I didn’t need

Memetic contagions of toxoplasmosis
virulent images suits my prognosis
let’s bench-press suppressed stress
and french-kiss this clenched fist
seek gnosis in cosmos
and slap out your false beliefs like
happiness is easy, wrap fingers around whiskey
raise sour mash to mouth briskly, take power nap at work risky
I’m always conflicted, downtrodden, uplifted
and still prefer my morning drink smothered in addiction

Why?
Cos I am looking for extremes of emotion and experience
It’s that simple

Lysergic hits mystic pitch through mirrored surface
Germanic linguistic gymnastics on purpose
been catalogued a systemic flee risk since day dot
a shock to the pistons and gaskets of societal bliss
so clap and I’ll hope to slip
through the cracks in the asphalt they totally missed
with their annual fill in of gravel and grit
when I travel I flip the bird at the rabble and herd
of Starbucks sheep I see besieged by need
late stage capitalism personifies conservative greed.

Spawned in war torn enemy territory
born awkward and forlorn
I was never merry sorry
no glory for the author of this truly scary story
caught the friction
so I ogled paper-bound non fiction
the fog of confusion has barely lifted
it bogged down the thoughts of this student gifted
too busy getting smogged out
phase-shifted
logging town
Washington south
aging faded misfit
hazy like Beijing in winters shower
kitchen towel wetted pressed to my knitted brow
and plump jaw
figured out the witching hour
caused miasma dawn
cause of my asthmatic lung sore
the reason for this face writ with sorrow
young and flawed
commited to hide a man embittered
with demon thoughts
scoffed at COVID
scald the coffee
quaffed the corvid
nevermore

Mesmerised by the steady drip from scythe
you feel alive yet?
feather light the tap from Death
you looked behind you yet?

My dissonance is sacred
it’s not no problem
skipping up the path
that naked pharaohs trod on
let me absolve your sins
my linens are 100 per cent
spun Egyptian cotton
I ain’t forgotten how to sip deep from holy springs
dismantle and destroy the ambergris economy
don’t worry
I understand the tragedy
yeah
you’ll never feel me in totality
take the stand in a court of law
won’t spit no fallacies
can’t stand reality
live life on that balance beam
my weed’s the greenest
like pesto Genovese is
makes all the fiends scream
they deserve a treat
too many choices of ice-cream become crippling
remain in service to the rhyme scheme
or cut a hard right weave
through thistles
watch the scratches bleed

As we paddle-board down
the river Styx
batten down the hatches
of this prison cruise ship
limping adrift
boozy misfits sinking
deep the bow lay
weak lungs burn from foul play
lashing tongue of flame a kiln
news spills of the furnace built today
by conservative fat fucks
breathing nervous
as a glut of need furthers
rats tucked
just beneath the furniture
hoping to leap to the apex over us
roaches slither next
feeding me distress
poached liver from toe to neck
ethanol leaks into my bed from every pore
just a pathetic pawn
more cannon fodder
no bother
now the famine is upon us

When Lawrence of Zion
Drove the Nebuchadnezzar
I never felt better
No joke
Whether by pen or feather
I poke the page
Penicillin
Prepared
No better feeling
Not scared
Continue drilling
All this militant singing
Into my ears again
Rap music as abusive irritant
Mutant chimp flinging shit at the ceiling fan
Exhibiting fits of simian grandeur
Bad
I’m a stoned interloper
Nothing to boast at
Simple fact I was lonely
Moe Szylack
Miller Mac call back
The world don’t give a fuck
Took that to the chest
Like Mia Khalifa’s hockey puck
I’m a spliff licking phantom
With a proclivity to candor
My amygdala’s a bit random
Big tabbed up
Off a tangent
Can’t handle the famine of war
All the salmons been caught
The battle’s been fought
Carbon-based forms on life support
Hardly raised swarms
Since the big short
Left us starved of oxygen
Gasping just to yawn
Grasping at plastic straws
I’ll Harkonnen down
Your closed minds doors
A factotum of importance
Your elders do implore
Hey fellas don’t ignore
Please believe him

Become a sight unseen
Like the Thylacine since ‘33
Rotting bones
And the smell of native potpourri
Science can’t heal all scars
I’m far past regaining my senses properly
I’m a catastrophist by nature
If not by name
Here I stand
Over blood and bones breaking
keyhole’s naked
I peek through daily
And you wonder why I’m always sedated?

Who is Nug Chompah?
Well
Young metal stomper
fun never faltered
pedal fast in class
carve brittle onyx chips out of shoulders
found that holster handled smarts
shoot from both hips
blast with ease nasty
it’s evident I get a blessed relief
when I overthink things nightly
hardly an A-class assumption
frightened the ritual stress
won’t recede or something
witness my needs
and visually impress on white sheets
hung from eaves above dusty
humming mosquitoes huff and puff
and chuckle in-sync sinking blood
dorito crumbs just in timber lake
breed problems like taken scum
from Roman downfall
lead plumbing
how foolish death be coming
to pasteurised minds that get dumber
but fuck that
not for N U G
cos I organise everything
for maximum efficacy
effortlessly pack it in tetris-y
even when the tempest approaches
I’m tempered 2 doses
jackets on
as I proceed

with the coin flip
of gum under tongue the trip
2 sides to every hip sway
undercurrent whips
tooth-aches of rain
behind white pickets you made
with your slave wage
9-5
3 little shits
and a wife you don’t like

plumb acid through your water supply
’til you realise
the black mirror surrounding your life
reflects back to you only the things that you like

the acid when with me
ain’t acrid it’s absolute
a hirstute breath and a peek at the breadth
and depth of the universe
my mind ain’t backwards
the signals coming through
I’m surfing channels
fiction and factual
haze comes
not lazy not dazed
not absent son
even keel of balance
a challenge on my hands once
can’t recall those high noons I spent blazing
fill glass bowl hit with flame
chalice raised inhale and pray
now arms flail and gesticulate madly
as I sit back and proclaim
“This nug’s amazing!”
it’s crazy the praise I’ve heaped
to esteemed vapours on the wind
stuff my papes like beef wellington
I serve my friends
rough puff-paste
stuffed foie parfait and champignon bake
make jus of red wine
then a campfire outside
cos I’m a psilocybin chompah
a psyched up soldier of Shulgin
standing on the shoulders of giants
with a funnel filled with gin
I offer the experience of

the coin flip
of gum under tongue the trip
2 sides to every hip sway
undercurrent whips
tooth-aches of rain
behind white pickets you made
with your slave wage
9-5
3 little shits
and a wife you don’t like

Got to acquire supplies for the night
forgot I require to devise a plan like
a sniff of bitter powder
choof stinking flowers
gas captured in capsule
lights fractures as I astral travel
hiss spills icy cold
mist fills lungs of old
relaxed bits of spit and drool
attack lips cooled to blue
’til I bite back and take control
of this hatchback from hell
roll on a bake sale
fail to brake while all hell sets sail
still the kids waste bog roll
on tears from whips fated for long stroll
past carers uncaring and careers manifold
’til 90 years old staring down hospital halls
begging for release from this mortal coil

wake up
gimme some death

I still remember that night I saw
poltergeist evidence
since 3 pingers self prescribed
molly imbibed prior becomes
wholly inspiring at T+5
for 7 hells Olympics
my nation need no trial
harden up
all my life I’ve seeked strife

Garden public
pull weeds for mans wife
I got paid by cash slapped in high five
as flash car drives away
I stash rake and fly vivid
in an instant toes over digits
medicine cabinet fidget
through pill bottles
full throttle wishing
for a menacing habit
and there you have it
score
found OC80 hidden and I’m having it
raw
peep the new flawed owner
of a pain free existence
roll nose cone around fingers
Roman chalk scraped over table
formed phalanx to slithers
foamy Hawkwind solo up nasal
I grin and shiver
duty bidden pupils slitted
drip bitter
this pleasure trigger flips relevance
my cleverness slips
and the urge gets bigger
and the urge gets bigger

wake up
Ali was a liar
pull out a pill crusher at a party
sense disquiet
wake up
too many tinnies sunk
Declan’s quiet
fiending to spiral out
I give him a shove and exclaim
wake up

I’ll verbally whipper snipper
trim up your neck nerve
served you up a thick saw grin
guaranteed it burns
further you double dipper eaters learn
raps reek without meaning
mine are ripe mangosteen
yours anger me
they’re mouldy durian
I can hold an audience and teach them to endure it
preach bold to the covent like a bishop mature it
whereas the syrup that drips from my lips bees nurture it
these pollinators
the Earth’s saviour
need a sweet nursery to further the queens purpose
specifically Pacific the salmon will breed
horrifically prolific the over-fishing has been
from the dead of night in the web of life a spider alights
hunts to find a waterboats-man
one who saunters over meniscus
one who’s jaunty cos it’s viscous
for him, mistress, kids and food supply
unaware they stride on the surface of something much deeper
and awe-inspiring
perspiring SCUBA figure
hoovers tiny fishy freak up

Zeroes and ones
the total sum of everyone
cascading green
all things are part of this machine

SCUBA Steve retires imminently to feature
rare beats in teachings to kiddly-winks
too many piddly thinkers
amused by shark-week yet shit scared
by the open seas majesty
“Oh! I love chicken sushi fantastically
but nit-picking what’s umi or unagi meant to mean?”
Well come here Susie
I’ll teach you about umami
and if your smarmy ass
can’t focus in class
I’ll harm you and your father with this uzi
sue me you’ll soon see
that life’s a mandelbrot mandala
of deepening complexity
as I narrate the plot of natures drama
it perplexes me
stressed as I gaze deeper into futures well
orchestra peer gynt 3rd movement swells
through my velour blue plush suit
veneer smooth simple proof
I listen to Robert Fripp’s jazzy riffs
through vinyl hiss

I’ve been woke since zygote
I recall time passing in my womb home
it’s been wrote I’d be spitting flows
since I went lickedy split
down the tube of fallopian
to cavort the globe confront unknown foes
here’s hoping this Cambodian fortune telling orphan
is open about the opium nausea seller
a warning of his products supposed potency
awesome
a tear weller
which would prod at nose bone
swell up throat and bleedin kill a fella
spill his belly hit with Ned Kelly
he staggers and stops
my chatter may itch like static
but batter up
no bunt
the picture is Van Gogh patterns hung
yours? whack
nonsensical puns
like Dali’s time utensils melted by Sevilles sun
I’m the quiet nihilist vibing on the beanbag
might seem bad
but my spirit’s on fire wireless
as I smoke sticky dope
toke to Tricky – Ponderosa
elope with a ruby-eyed breakfast to ponder over
I strode fast straight past rows of rose and rhododendron
kept my head on as bespoke mosaics approach dead on
the barely there aroma of rosemary as it roams through the air
announcing final rest

I’m the matrix plagued with faceless agents
glorious omniscience and nameless figures
you’re a pigeon at best
a Notorious street pest
a Tupac of incredible mess
and disrespect