Monday, August 04, 2014

brotherblob and sister slob

brotherblob and sister slob 

artworks by prmurry are in the BAR 30th Birthday Exhibition 9-30 august 2014
Preview Party: 9 august 2014 6-10pm Free Entry BAR Gallery / 4-5 Queens Parade, Walm Lane, NW2 5HT  www.brentartistsresource.org.uk





Sunday, August 03, 2014

a waste of time

I waste my time
Watching timers,
All the time.
If I’m not clock watching,
I’m waiting for a digit to change
Thinking that I wish that the 9
On the indicator
Would just light up one more line
So that I could now see
The number 8
And appreciate
The whittling away
Of my railway station wait.
So than I can be soon back home
Watching a lighted bar
Move across my computer screen,
Almost imperceptibly slowly
As I do, more seemingly endless
Down and uploading.
And moving folders and files around
And if I’m not gazing at some timer flickering,
I’m faffing around
Or laying dozing listening to
The time pips on the radio
That go, meep, meep, meep, meep
Like a niggling itch,
Which won’t let me go back to sleep again
I think that I must get going
I know that I must get moving
So that can always be punctual
Keeping up with the time
Is the futile aim of my meaningless ritual,
Which means that I never get
Introverted or metaphysical
And wonder  why this old bald ape
Works himself up into such a state,
When, sooner or later,
He won’t have the time to wait and watch
The digits of the timer or the hands of the clock
Which may well continue

When his time has stopped.