Jackson Harvey (he/him)
photography by Anest Williams (she/her)
I’m sat here waiting
toilet scrolling
depression seeping in
waste out
shit on and shattered
and broken to bits
clackin’ keys
knees up
foetal inquisition
Katy B’s on a mission
and I’m dishing out dirt
on the subliminal race space
shipping tycoons gobble up
natural resources unethically
kindling forest fires
and killing Koality St.
& toasting Sham Pain
over your attempts to
salve the rainforest
‘From Here on Out’
I’m sat here waiting
holding an inquiry into Time
magazine’s held clout
and you held hands
over the Atlantic / not Indian / not Black C /
some time Mediterranean /
Full-Time romantic bigotry
Silk Road
belt and brace [your-self]
vendor nondescript
broad minesweeping
generalised feelings
of yellow peril
masking ritualised
bipolar inadequacy
Big Wig inadequacy?
OK, Google but
I’m sat here waiting and
roses are red
Doritos are savoury
the US prison system is legalised slavery
I robbed that rhyme
OFF a T-shirt ON
wish.com for £5
from Luoyang City
and I couldn’t help myself
from feeling smug
wearing IT
hands over the pacific
looming threadread
and now I feel like
I FUNded your joyride into space
and away from your problezos
grim and bear trap
hart going like the clappers
gunned down for the Highland CLEARANCE !SALE!
Extinction’s last Rebellious act
will be a fat tsunami
OFF the back of melted polar ice CAPS
and the bear will be laughing
as it’s cheviot and stag slicked coat
is cleansed in the world’s largest intercontinental thermal pool
all Mother Earth needs is patience
for mankind to put a cattle bolt
Colt devolver to its head and blow
1 last h0le in the ozone layer
God, as witness, will say a wee prayer
and finding no solace There
will wheek themselves down the pearly stairs
Sotheby’s will hold a Blas-themed exhibition and Zounds!
would you look at the G.Me.T.
regular programming shall REcommence,
as per, like clockwork
and like clockwork
I’m sat here waiting
for the liberal elite to delete my tweet
and the Luddite right
to tell me it’s aw aw right
but it’s not AW2R
and it hasn’t been since before I was born
and I’m tired
and I’m sat here waiting
for Elon Musk to whisk us off to la la land
meanwhile, Primark is advertising vegan leather
that was ON sale last week as cheap pleather
and I’m sat here waiting
and the toilet seat is getting hotter
the wet is on fire and next week
the world will be drowning in the wet
and Father Time bomb is set to retire
and I won’t shit myself
because I see it coming
and I’m sat here waiting
