Your neck

You’re stood in front of me
And I want to kiss your neck.
Just that smooth, olivey bit
Between your hair and your jaw.
But I don’t think I should.
I mean I really want to,
I just don’t think I should.
I can’t read what you’re face is saying,
As you’re stood with your back to me,
But when I look over your shoulder
Your thick ring finger
And screensaver of your wife,
Not to mention my heterosexuality,
Tell me I shouldn’t kiss your neck.
No matter how smooth and olivey it is.

© Carl Burkitt 2016

Talentless

The talentless man just sat in his room being all talentless. He watched his talented friends be talented and wished for a fraction of their talent. The talentless man decided to let his talented friends know how talented they were. He texted one talented friend congratulating her on her talent. He emailed another talented friend telling him he liked his talented thing. He called up another talented friend who was struggling with her latest bit of talent and reassured her how talented she was and that she should just keep working talentedly on her latest bit of talent. When he was done, the talentless man just sat in his room being all talentless.

© Carl Burkitt 2016

Plane

“It’s a bird!”
“It’s a plane!”
“It’s…it’s a fucking bird holding a plane. RUN!”

The crowd tried
but no one could escape
before the deadly gull slowly sliced
their heads with its stolen
woodwork tool.

© Carl Burkitt 2016

Double hard

Phil was double hard.

He squeezed his post-gym frame
into the greasy spoon’s snug booth

And ran his finger around a
small pot of hot sauce

As he finally opened up to Paul
and then to Mick.

© Carl Burkitt 2016

Lovely

The businessmen seemed lovely.

They were chatting absolute nonsense about hedge funds and gateways and LEPs and mergers and takeovers and ‘wheat and chaff’.

But they seemed really lovely.

© Carl Burkitt 2016