Jack Houston

 

Grrrrreat

just do it good things come to those who
wait it’s good to talk refreshes the parts
other beers cannot because i’m worth it
think different i’m lovin it they’re grrrrreat
wait it’s good to talk refreshes the parts
vorsprung durch technik every little helps
think different i’m lovin it they’re grrrrreat
exactly what it says on the tin vorsprung
durch technik every little helps beanz
meanz heinz it’s finger lickin good cannot
reach what it says on the tin either love
it or you hate it is are you? wait it’s good
meanz heinz it’s finger lickin good cannot
other beers cannot because i’m worth it
or you hate it is are you? wait it’s good
just do it good things come to those who

Lumpenprecariat

Watching each other take
Each short slide knowing
When we hit the ground
We need to keep going.

 

clocks are a bourgeois concept

the money
spider skittered
across the top
of my library
copy of robert
tressel’s the ragged
trousered philanthropists

the little
thing danced on
my page-
holding thumbnail
like a blessing

I lost track of who the
they
were who would not allow
the children to be fed

went back
a page
& saw the spider’s corpse

 

Jack Houston is a parent, writer, and public-library worker. Their poetry has appeared in The Butcher’s Dog, Finished Creatures, The London Magazine, Magma, Poetry London, The Rialto and Stand, among others. A debut pamphlet, The Fabulanarchist Luxury Uprising, is published by The Emma Press.