IRA LIGHTMAN

 Ira Lightman lives near Durham in the North East of England. He works part time supporting people 
 with learning disabilities.  His new chapbook is a piece on the I-Ching, a concrete poem of 64 word 
 shapes following the 64 hexagrams of the I-Ching and a derived prose poem, with commentary. 
 Published by The Radiator.
 


                JOINT HOTPOT OF JOINTS

	Yon double-trouble capsuled no
	holy hi-fi hour of viewing
	billow forthwith the issue king
	rewon either/or young won’t know
	within backpack but grown agrees
	slowly la-la once he & they
	mellow no-no now not slyly
	jejune hey-ho for best series
	guying ta-ta bluff people hurt
	respectful picnic then plies through
	windfall jaw-jaw who from God’s Truth 2
	denying swiss miss drugged pervert
	all tie-dye burying by quarter
	meanwhile pell-mell lit charisma

	in again-again primetime show
	newly hip-hop stands renewing
	fuelled oui-oui as any thing
	withdrawn blah-blah at last may glow
	within cosmos after what seas
	duelled can-can of brushed wash free
	twice-daily tintin braked but three
	companion sinbin months of freeze
	luring binman that wanted hurt
	temporal tiswas one might hue
	meanwhile mamma wakes given to
	curing tee-hee dug-up inert
	we’ll clip-clop knowing then raptured
	funnel braindrain thought still captured

	one boo-boo in a way below
	no nitwit here burping to sing
	more slomo logically linking
	line hot-to-trot less now to cow
	than moo-moo to chew on the knees
	no beri-beri urbanely
	more gang-bang possibility
	than ylang-ylang underlies
	trying wee-wee thus as Herr Shirt
	shall yoo-hoo marks of state so you
	tell hotchpotch tongue one to construe
	feeling cocoa brews from the dirt
	all tut-tut found on camera
	fragile poo-poo not to bother
	
	doused couscous scalded to breathe
	aware zulu as a film that caine
	did assess before liveried
	so o so no low show to go
	breed assgas had some body hid
	brains’ tutu haloed in the air
	beneath buspass to whom it moused.