Status Updates From The Wickedest

‘I hope I am understood
when my body hears the song
and my limbs speak
what they have always spoken:
with a little bit of luck
we can make it through the night.’

‘I wish I was naturally light-footed
but it takes lifetimes to learn
the dance of acceptance;
how to pivot around destruction
as I move through the days.’

‘shout-out to the ravers inside
who came to have a good time
cos we don’t always have a long time’

‘One day you will wake up
to the fog already on your bed
spread like a lazy cat.
And in this haze -
this swooping ticking,
this scam that is adulthood -
you will become jaded,
washed of your colour.
The days will become sticky,
harder to rinse off your skin.
You will forget that your laugh
resembles the tongue
of a bell whipping.’

‘We just stared at each other for a while then burst into laughter like two halves of a soul scattered across a field of lifetimes finding one another again’

‘The dj plays ‘palazzo’,
Frederick beams, throws his hands up,
pries open the meaty air and tears it wide,
squeezing through into another dimension.
There, suspended in nothingness,
Frederick is formless,
adrift in the deep,
yet to feel the electricity of brain matter,
yet to be choked by the asbestos of worry.’