Movie Review – Trader (2022)
Review of original stock-trading psychological thriller Trader is over at Flickering Myth.
Film Review : The Hole in the Fence
My review of the Mexican/Polish production The Hole in the Fence is over on Flickering Myth.
XORSKE!
Pleased to have contributed to the phantastik new zine XORSKE!
Creative explorations of chaos are detailed within with stories, reviews, poetry of many styles, illustration, photography and visual pieces all sharing space.
It’s been professionally put together and looks suitably striking in a best of the Weird way.
Cover of ZORSKE! Issue 1 below
Guaranteed
Hey YOU.
We designed a brain to MAKE your life easier. Once
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On OUR quick ‘n’ easy
Nice to serve ya
you can kiss goodbye to all your
Happily never afters
Design FAULTS ‘n’ failings
+ doom scroll lost psyche
All money back if still
Live/Semi-Conscious
Satisfaction + all the rewards schemes + point specific dreams
Are conceptually ring fenced + ring bound
to come your way within
7-10 working blue moons
Guarantees are GUARANTEED
And you will love and treasure it
FOREVER
Happy
On the top of the block of flats that blocks out the sunshine,
there lives a tree with spreadeagled branches,
home to a curious bird nest where
stray thoughts grow up and out of the bedding.
Bits of plant and wood and delicate processes
form a game of surprises.
The light comes back and we can see the sky again while
the nest keeps building up in weight and conviction.
Stick to a Stone
Stick to a stone
Leaf from a bone
Sailing with the breeze
Then sinking
Fast are the trails
Whirling spins
This divines the
Next path sideways
Swimming Lessons
An inflatable castle
Bigger than the sun
That sends its rays
Through the plexiglass roof
Is approaching
In rapid slow motion
I want to test myself
So I do the deep dive
Thinking I can bypass
Floating Camelot
And come up the other side
I figured wrong
And swam out of steam half way
I attempt to get back to air
But keep nudging the lairy plastic parapets
An 11 year old life flashes by
In a stutter and cough
And then it clears
And then it’s clear
A New Day
Alarm sounds shine clear as sun stream
Filter through the dark with an extra beat
The echoes grab and lift me out of the haze dream
A message that it’s time to get back on my feet
What happened in the night we find out from reportage
The winners tell the tale and it’s tall and it stoops
The words fly like bullets within a luminescent barrage
Firepower realised by troop after troop
Survivors, animals, creatures us all
Look out the window to a new day
Survivors, animals and interpreters us all
Welcome the morning, remember to stay
Robert W Monk 2022
Improved
Songs from the ether
prayers to a dream
caught up on meaning
falling into change
Compare and contrast
the numbers in the cloud
The one from 500 years ago
is filled with the crushed bones and
gasping breath of the doomed
1000 years hence
the picture is cleared
But the slate is not blank
plate not cleaned
But improved
Have we improved?
Is it getting better?
Raindrops
As the rain continues to patter softly on the windows, the questions keep on coming.
What is this place so shabbily created?
And who is that there, looking over from the doorway?
I only know that I need not worry of the past.
A Shot in Space 