Dear Diary of Martin X 14/08/2016 & 15/08/2016

Yesterday

Yesterday

Was nothing to say

That’s why I’m writing now 

about what has faded away

From the perspective

Of today

And doubling up on my diary karma

So as to relive the last 48 hours it’ll do no harm ta

Not that it was unremarkable in any way

People died and the sun came up

My love was like a flying duck

But I needed a break from the tyranny 

of my puny little brain

So i only wrote a note about my dear dad 

(see advanced graffiti 14/08/2016)

Cos that’s all I had

aNd yet today

I was harangued for being a conservative 

(how very quaint)

With my legendary status as an icon of nihilism 

brought into question

By a former fellow comrade tvarich 

of equally mental proportion

And I replied to that impertinent libel

With a bit of apocryphal hip hop cant 

from the Mao tse me bible
(see "advanced graffiti: if you prick me - sod off") 

But now it’s time to say goodnight

Tomorrow is the 8^th anniversary they turned on the light

And I saw the world for real for once

As my own true love of a beaming boy

came into my life

With his toothless bawl and his infinite joy.