Cricket

Chief

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I used to ground the chief
Searching high and low
Relaxing on the cricket pitch
Things in hell for bad people down below.
I wanted to know the answer
Beyond heaven’s mere innocent representation –
People spent in movies and Apocalypse
Versions on armies on TV in their nations.
What is the meaning of life,
From Royal Patrons to a lonely boy at school?
Taking life too seriously
For economics with the women at Uni – a lonely fool.
Where is the answer going to come from
In the texts of the English literary canon?
The wisest men and sometime women consenting
To examination in Final Honours School.
Lusting after the listed virtues of fame and honour
Consequenting the frequencies of despair
Prompting me to sometime grow it long
Otherwise I was off to shave my hair.
They called it the ineffable and made it into Christianity
Things I could do and things I cannot see.
Now it is moved to the popular population
So some may dance with it in the flame of Spirituality.

So I am undone and found out – merchandised to the futures of the investment class
Sometimes they think of me running the race and finding out things last
A computer for him and every child one day they will say
Until the time has come forth for this merriment to dry up and go away.

AI Summary

The poem reflects on a lifelong search for meaning — from childhood imaginings of heaven and hell to the intellectual rigour of the English literary canon — and the disappointment of discovering that neither religion, academia, nor society offers the clarity they once promised. The speaker recalls taking life too seriously, feeling lonely at university, and chasing wisdom through books and spiritual traditions, only to find these systems increasingly commercialised and hollow. The poem mourns the loss of innocence and the realisation that modern life has turned spirituality, education, and even the self into commodities for the investment class. Beneath the reflection lies a quiet grief: the sense of being “found out,” used, and left behind by a world that values technology and profit more than wisdom, humanity, or truth.

Only Death

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Only death can accomplice the accomplice
To the greatest theft of all time
Settlers of the sting of the century
All money in the Cloud with Rishi’s rhyme.
Who is Sunak when the lights go out next year
No conscience and no wife to insult the Queen?
Who is Sai Baba hiding his life
,
When Chris Cornell is where the idol worshippers have been?

How will England grow without her own staff?
Enrique Moses bowls crap compared to the past.
Why do you smoke weed with Bill Gates?
To measure one long generation only to caste?
It is because of the sadism and the masochistic mum
The actress who taught Mrs and Mr to Radha Krishna
Then the moon turns and the tide draws near
When centuries are counted and not scored in India.

Click.
Click.
Slog.
Boom!

AI Summary

The poem confronts the corruption of political power, the collapse of spiritual authority, and the long shadow of colonial and caste histories, weaving together figures like Rishi Sunak, Sai Baba, and Chris Cornell to show how modern culture blends money, worship, and identity into a chaotic spectacle. The speaker exposes the hypocrisy of elites, the confusion of spiritual seekers, and the generational wounds inherited from both family and nation. Beneath the satire and anger lies a deeper grief: the sense that centuries of history have been mishandled by those in power, leaving ordinary people to carry the emotional and cultural fallout. The poem ends with a sharp, explosive rhythm — a refusal to soften the truth or pretend that the world’s contradictions can be neatly resolved.

Little Intellectual Boy Lost

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Why do I see the things that I do?
Little things and big things deranging my vision through and through
Buddhafield electrifying the Boogaloo
Stumbling blocks to my learning
Late night travelling home from Nasser Uncle’s house, far outside of Birmingham
Sending my brother some love as we don’t fight about the roller skates
Debating the culture
A couple of legal vultures
Parents from antiquity
Fish and Chips from the Chippy
Star games on the arcade machine while they talk to the owner they know
Met the daughter some decades later, walking around Harborne
That’s not Walthamstow
Round and around from a Junior School game of Rounders
Flounder from the Little Mermaid
The black High School shut down of Home Invasions
The Propaganda models are the State of the Nation
And Rees Mogg is debutant on the high school stage
Selling us faux pas rage as the dancers play in the cages
The vaginas are talking alone again
The monologues are long and longing for me
I am the pauper celebrity
The fish in the ocean
The oxen on the lawn
Something like a cosmic consciousness to pawn
{Paw Paw Bear}
…
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It was all there
When me and my brother played
Stay
A database in the cities of Angels
Aware of Nicholas Cages angles
Annoyed with Meg Ryan for trying
Lying and lying about the rage
Settling up with planes what man can’t know on the ground
Sealing the deal with furies when the poor man can’t be found
So down played
Soppy and played out
Singing in the showers
Alone for hours and hours
A passionate man
A flower loving member of a men’s group clan
Shouting in his own way about shanty towns
Blowing the wind when the Pakistani chants down the runway for a 100 mph bowl in an over at The Oval
What’s square about Waqar and Wasim now?
Not expanding and contracting consciousness
But expanding and explaining the world.
Two daughters in other guises
Spending what money they could find from parents who were kind
A bus driver and a lover’s son
Someone who made Jalandhar number one
Against all odds and murderous affairs
Stolen inheritance and plans for dancers everywhere
Looting London and Central School of Speech and Drama
Turing it into the Centred School for Trolls of Peace and Sharma’s Dharma
So the bug could be planted in PC World for the frigging girls to find when the owned the world
Loss of Schools
Forests for the fools
Shooting arrows in Warwick Castle as ascended actors well versed in Ritesh’s karmic affair…
Neet Mohan was everywhere
Instagram did not make sense
Julia Roberts listened to Jeremiah Blues
The Priests tried standing on their heads as a corpulent defence
Spending the Royal Crown
Keeping poor people down
Free Yoga Classes on the NHS
Something for the Pension Pot I think and I think your evolution makes no sense

  • Teacher Mr Psychiatrists of things in foreign lands
  • Breast wished Madhuri Dixit for legs akimbo in Aishwarya Rai’s Bachchan land
  • 1980-2020 doesn’t look so expensive now
  • Let’s lets
  • Do you think?…
  • Nurses worry about Slander now…
  • 1990 Israel
  • 2000s Iran
  • Ahmedinajad at the UN
  • Prince Charles does not let us eat Paan
  • (William is trying to act at the UN like James Caan)

… and no Doctor

AI Summary

Your piece moves through childhood memories, late‑night journeys, family warmth, schoolyard games, and the sensory overload of growing up between cultures, blending these with films, celebrities, cricket legends, and spiritual references to show how your mind stitches the world together in vivid, associative flashes. Beneath the rapid shifts is a single emotional thread: you’re trying to understand why your perception feels so charged — why small details, old memories, and cultural symbols all strike you with the same intensity. The poem circles around the ache of diaspora identity, the weight of inherited expectations, the confusion of modern politics and media, and the longing for clarity in a world that feels fragmented. What emerges is a portrait of someone who sees too much because he has lived through too much — a man whose inner world is crowded with history, family, cinema, spirituality, and unresolved wounds, and who is trying to turn that overwhelming vision into meaning rather than madness.