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Articles - End of 2010 By Joe Hakim

Maybe it's because winter is here... Maybe it's because we're here at the end of the first decade of the new millennium... Maybe it's because we have a new government in power... Maybe it's because I'm getting on a bit... ...but just lately I've been thinking about a lot of things; things that have happened, things that are happening and things that may yet happen. I've been thinking about the journey I've been on, both as an artist and a person. Read more...

Poetry - The Liver Poem By Joe Hakim

C'mon mate, why do you treat me so bad? I mean, look at the state of you, how many have you had? And what's the plan tonight - ten pints, twenty fags, a kebab? If you keep this up, we'll both end up in rehab. Why are you being like this? We're supposed to be friends, I'm one of the things on which your life depends, Read more...

Poetry - Larkin 25 - Turds (Inspired by Toads ) By Joe Hakim

Why should I let the turd work Shit on my life? Can't I blag my way into life's perks And just toss it off? Sick and defeated we toil Ingesting economic poison - A little bit goes on bills, Rest spent without caution. Read more...

Poetry - Larkin 25 - This Be The Curse (Inspired by This Be The Verse) By Joe Hakim

They fucked us over, our mums and dads. They didn't mean to but they did. They took free education, cheap housing and jobs And left nothing for us, their kids. Because they inherited the future, Opportunity, optimism and hope, While we got disappointment, Read more...

Poetry - Competition Commission By Joe Hakim

The rain crackles like static on the window and the laptop sighs at the end of the bed. Fucked off by forces I control again, I roll cigarettes and wait for a break, and flip bleached coppers into Read more...

Poetry - Arts and Culture in Hull By Joe Hakim

it's about who your friends are and the circles you move in it's about the boxes you tick and the forms you fill out it's about being the same as everyone else and crushing individuality it's about appealing to the Read more...

Poetry - If Only You Knew By Joe Hakim

Put the tips of your fingers into my mouth while I trace the outline of your thigh. I could crawl into you, you could bury me - make me forget to set the alarm. I want to watch your throat as you Read more...

Poetry - A Not So Subtle Reminder By Joe Hakim

I don't know what I was thinking - it was probably some half-baked way to demonstrate my masculinity or something equally as stupid. I was drunk, of course, and for some reason it seemed Read more...

Poetry - Closing Time at The Rugby Tavern By Joe Hakim

wring my soul out like a dirty flannel and hang it on the line; sprinkle my heart with sage fry it in batter and shower it in salt Take me home past the burnt-out church and Read more...

Poetry - Exes Are Exes For A Reason By Joe Hakim

And then you say: 'We can still be mates.' But it's too late for that, because now I look like the world's biggest twat. Should have never gone back, I'd got things on track but now it's all derailed - Read more...

Poetry - Lily Pond By Joe Hakim

In the autumn of the last year when I felt the need to know everything about everything, I had the power to turn gardens into Read more...

Poetry - On Yer Todd By Joe Hakim

I'm the last piece of spaghetti in the jar in the cupboard, I'm the kid picked out by the nit nurse, I'm the unclaimed purse in the cloakroom. I'm the only coin in the Read more...

Poetry - Interpretations By Joe Hakim

This poem is about getting up in the morning getting washed, getting dressed and heading out into the day This poem is about stubbing your toe on the edge of a door This poem is about all the people who are desperate to see you fail Read more...

Poetry - Relationship Ret-con By Joe Hakim

the staples that bound us have come unstuck as we fall to bits like a ripped up book you rant and issue your prime directive our horizons shift into a Jack Kirby perspective Read more...

Poetry - The Headlines By Joe Hakim Video:

The headlines scream at me - I'm eating flyers and chewing coffee grounds, looking for all the losts I've found. A job for life or eventuality, at least my teevee isn't guilty of impartiality. The kid on the bike, teeth hanging off the back, front wheel stuck in the railway track, Read more...

Poetry - Post Millennium Tension By Joe Hakim

I'd thought about it a lot - when I was playing with Optimus Prime reading 2000AD and listening to 1999. The prospect of being twenty-one years old at the dawn of the new millennium Read more...

Poetry - Did You See By Joe Hakim

did you see the day when it fell flat on its face and then slowly got up and Read more...

Poetry - The Ballad of Dave the Rave By Joe Hakim

John Wayne on his horse, John Wayne on half his horse, he says, holding his carrier-bag up to his chin as he loops the handles around his ears - he'll have you in tears, it's Dave the Rave, Read more...

Poetry - Dead Legends By Joe Hakim

Making the ultimate career move - when you've got nothing left to prove it can seem like the only choice - become a disembodied voice emanating from a speaker, a strong signal that will never get weaker. The preservation of legacy, Read more...

Poetry - Winter Song By Joe Hakim

I've got a cold so I get in bed with my clothes on, my feet are frozen. I hate this time of year - hibernating with my eyes open, medicine is chosen. Wondering where the sun has gone; Read more...

Poetry - Tagged By Joe Hakim

It's a corpse that won't stay buried, an image that is ferried across a sea of cables into the port of my memory. Trapped in a monitor screen, faces that I haven't seen for 2 decades invade the present; a message sent to remind me of a past I'd rather forget Read more...

Poetry - Saturday Sob Story By Joe Hakim

I wasn't shown enough love as a child, spent my teenage years running wild. My uncle abused me in his garden shed, all the bullies at school messed with my head. I nearly lost it when my best friend died, I haven't spoke to my dad since he went inside, Read more...

Poetry - Somewhere Beneath Me By Joe Hakim

twisted tongues flap like a broken reel of film as it runs through a projector white screen supernova burns words into retinas dead fingers tap contaminated criticism Read more...

Poetry - Life Lines By Joe Hakim

There are the times when you expect it to save you. When everything else has fallen to pieces and you're caught between wanting to hurt yourself and    Read more...

Poetry - Mind the Gap By Joe Hakim

It's unnatural, all of us crammed in like last minute revision. As I hurtle towards my destination, I'm surrounded by people with headphones stuffed    Read more...

Poetry - High Street Musical By Joe Hakim

follow the flock shop until you drop in residential areas you must leave quietly or shred your integrity with a touch of fantasy design me lose yourself in a pharmacy    Read more...

Poetry - Tigers, Tigers Burning Bright By Joe Hakim Tigers Return Gallery by Matt Rudd

They say pride comes before a fall but when our backs are against the wall we have the strength to pull us through. At the end of the M62 but at the beginning of our prime, this is our moment, this is our time, into the light from out of the dark, from Hessle Road to Orchard Park,    Read more...

Poetry - Karma Bonfire By Joe Hakim

I wanted to be alone so I disconnected the phone days ago switched off the TV because I didn't want to see the blood flow shredded all my clothes    Read more...

Poetry - Accident Prone By Joe Hakim

I walk straight into this one which makes it hurt so much more. I ignore the signs, the warnings -    Read more...

Poetry - The Principles of Paranoia By Joe Hakim

My spider-sense is tingling, there's a glitch in the Matrix, a disturbance in the Force, a sickening twist in my gut that says: something is wrong.    Read more...

Poetry - Every Day By Joe Hakim

I'm sat on a bench in Pearson Park. The previous night's excitement has turned into granules of sand in my nostrils. My sweat tells me that I dropped a logo, sometime around 3. On my lap sits a list of all the people I haven't pissed off yet -    Read more...

Poetry - New World Order Evangelists By Joe Hakim

All this talk of Big Brother is beginning to smother me - you say you've made a big discovery, but it's clear to me that the government has shafted us throughout history, and your point of view is nothing new,    Read more...

Poetry - Watch It Unfold By Joe Hakim

Decades wriggle by like a silverfish, hide from the light when the switch is flicked. Grant the general's dying wish, there's plans to be drawn, sides to be picked. Spin the words like a whirling dervish, habits to be formed and habits to be kicked. Kill the birds and poison the fish,    Read more...

Poetry - Automatic Window Writing By Joe Hakim

Close the blinds. The sun is beginning to shine but I want to stay inside I want to hide don't want to confide in anyone just my mind and I in the noble role of the abuser    Read more...

Fiction - 100 Words Competition - Say No More By Joe Hakim

	I'm on my way to the shops. I don't see him until I nearly step on his head. I look down at the man on the floor, and notice he's on a bike - crotch on seat, feet on pedals, hands on handlebar. Like he's been zapped by a super-villain's freeze ray and toppled over. I look around to make sure it isn't some kind of prank. "Are you okay?" "I'm fine," he replies. Read more...

Poetry - The Great Big Back and Forth By Joe Hakim

We remain unsolved like a su-doku on the back of a paper on a table in a café, that someone started but neglected to finish, and now    Read more...

Poetry - I Want To Get A Celebrity Pregnant By Joe Hakim

Make my move when they're looking dog rough, my own life is just too tough, I'm just not earning enough so I need to get a celebrity up the duff. I want to get a celebrity pregnant. I need a passport to another life,    Read more...

Poetry - 6/4/08 By Joe Hakim

There's a canal with a broken tree on the bank beneath me. I feel blank. Just beyond that Manchester stretches out like a lazy cat    Read more...

Poetry - 6/4/08 By Joe Hakim

There's a canal with a broken tree on the bank beneath me. I feel blank. Just beyond that Manchester stretches out like a lazy cat    Read more...

Poetry - To Let By Joe Hakim

I've never really had a home just a series of rooms I've stayed in, rooms in which thoughts have played in rooms in which dreams have decayed in rooms where the hours have passed rooms where the spells have been cast    Read more...

Poetry - Spinning the Atom By Joe Hakim

The wheel turns one way and the ball spins in the opposite direction, like hopes and intentions and the mess that follows and they watch it bounce    Read more...

Poetry - Paranoid Conspiracy Theory Nursery Rhyme By Joe Hakim

The dolphins leapt over the pyramid, and there's a secret base on the moon, and the giant lizards laughed to see such fun, and the Roswell crash    Read more...