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lurch yikes lurch >> my stomach upon seeing my to-do list


Loops of duty


Soaked boots, wet socks


Time is a killer too


Can you be addicted to pastry? Asking for no one near this keyboard oh no


I’ve started reading a book called ‘Be More Pirate’, and my initial reaction is, why can’t it be ‘Be More Trash Panda’?


The promise of printers > The reality of printers as he reboots yet again


Pondering ‘The Tank Bowl’


If you find a thread, let me know, as I appear to have lost mine


Work dreams


Here we are again


I remember when it was dry


I woke up with a bounce in my step; pretty sure that was due to the fabulous news of Bernardine Evaristo winning the Booker Prize last night. An inspirational win – now let’s all be brilliant, do more, and crash more parties


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Do you want to be right? Do you want to change minds? Do you want to win? << three interlocking questions I’m thinking about this morning


The silence is loud today


Keep going


Do you make the patterns regular, or leave them be?


It’s always a brimstone, and never an emptystone


jigger jigger jigger


Call Me By My Ballot


Every Brexit Story is a ghost story


November spawned a shower


Verboten is verboten


Do me a favour today please: keep going, keep fighting – if you don’t back yourself, no one else will


And then we came to another beginning


Niche leaders, sally forth narrowly


spinning / whirling / spinning / whirling


Sleep begats more sleep


Check yo’ facts (and the political party that claims to be rebutting ‘em)


It is what it isn’t


Even an unfinished poem tells a truth, once


Thanks for the birthday wishes – you’re all marvellous. Even you


6 more days


the wide wave to the far future


Vote early etc etc


Shake & Shake


Proposal: rewrite of Auden’s ‘The Orators’ as ‘The Wreckers’


back at the desk


No, no epiphanies yet


What did you last win, and when?


Usually drink, usually dance, usually bubble


Hello hello I see the elites are claiming the people with less power are the elites again


Breach, once more, etc


Indifference is a superpower


Pin your ears back and run towards your anger. Behind it is change


This might be the only time I surface this week so…


This is the real of my wildest dream

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Life is boxes

Oh hai connectivity (oh hai office)

Oge he’s like Ed Reardon. But not funny

Hot Property on BBC Three is my new favourite thing

Have decided that, were I ever to appear  on BBC Three, it would be under the name ‘yung dasti’

Maybe I’m just a chatbot made flesh

For those of you who need to hear it: keep going

Waiting like an angry ghost

Change of direction, my neck

Libras in your pocket

Jump back; hop forward

My new forever comeback: “THAT’S JUST WORDS FROM A PERSON.”

Sleep or sun in my eyes, can’t tell.

Is ‘Floof FC’ an acceptable name for a fantasy Premier League team?

Truth detection is a full-time job

What does ‘winning’ to mean to you?

Just checking: England’s men won a cricket world cup yesterday? I didn’t dream it?

The world is being the world again

Oh well summer, you were good while you lasted

order today putting is words in difficult

Big trees, little forest

I look forward to the sequel of London Has Fallen, London is Melting

As strong as a melting rail today

I’m not allowed to complain about the rain today, am I?

Change the world through breakfast

“What are you doing today?” “Arting.”

...oh, one of those days you say?

Very well, then. Begin.

Summer colds eh? How unexquisite

All of a whirr

A whirr of all

Frag/ments of mo/ments

When you wake up you will find me

‘sinspiration’ << what you need when you can’t think of anything bad to do

One good evening can really last a year

Is this a shot in the information war?

Words! Come fast this week please!

Admin is bondage, isn’t it? Except less fun

What do loops do to straighten themselves out?

The devil always pops up claiming he is amoral, and that the problem wasn’t the box but Pandora

Low concept, high thrills

Brexit as a tirrit

La Rentrée

The forever grey starts today

“Busy, too busy.” – What I will say to you for the next three weeks, with apologies for the repetition

Wittgenstein’s Mistress but for the last person on Facebook

Waiting in the cafe at work, my eye turns to the screen where a music video is playing; it is subtitled, and at that moment, the caption reads: “[escapism escalating]”. I wish you that kind of day

Sunday night 'should-write-can't-write-can't-bear-to-listen-to-Washington-playing-Dallas' conundrums

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Too much work and not enough time…

Have reached the level of tiredness where my eyes are struggling to focus

Dull jewel, inactive fire

*deep breath* Here we go again

...just held my breath for three hours

Switched on dark mode

Defense wins championships

You can tell what sort of place I’m in, as I started reading ‘Bluets’ again this morning

Wit fades without use

I wrote a poem! I wrote a poem!

What, I can’t have another 12 hours in bed?

Reboot, reboot

To his coy facebookers

*puffs cheeks out* One more heave

Non-poetry bump

My eyes! My eyes! etc

Hug > Scold

Why isn’t motivation linked to rising inflation?

Strike a match

I was the past once

You know when you look at your to-do list and laugh? That

Remind me not to talk about poetic technique on other platforms…

Giving up Thin Wednesday

something something [object] something

The closer we get to 29th March the worse my headache gets

on it goes

‘The empty box’ doesn’t have as much of a ring as ‘the empty page’ does it?

In the future we will all be awake deep into the night, reading books about why we can’t sleep

The act we act is wearing thin

Why won’t someone pay me to sit around and read?

Oh pollen, up somebody else’s!

Universal Basic Reparations

All shook up

Circumspect as a state of mind

Scratch the itch of work

Hey Rose, Hey Madder

[another blank needing filling]

Brexit now officially harder than taking a photo of a black hole

What’s that coming over the hill? Is it a cold? Please don’t be a cold

I see which side you’ll be on

Busy day of literary high jinks

Back at the desk for the first time in about 17 days

Not sure I can handle any more epic comebacks this week

The game remains the same

[insert motivational message here]

My engine of progress appears to have stalled

juggle vision

If rumours mill, what do facts do?

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is behind the beat

Where have all the bounders and cads gone?

Sitting in the way of control

Dream pop Thursday

Juggle push drop Juggle push drop

Oh look!

I have joined the lanyard classes

It’s coming home (but there’s a massive tailback on the North Circular)

Cat howling, fan blowing, sleep failing

But who will think of the office workers today?

Time and willpower to execute ideas > ideas

I am mostly cherries

Look for the silver lining

Oh, the air con doesn’t come on until we arrive. Right

Who remembers when it was cold, when you could sleep?

Please please tell me now

Your instinct can’t be wrong

Life and how to live it

No, Time, stop tapping me on the shoulder, it’s not like its August or anything

...but what if time skips rather than hops?

Been reminded that I hate everything to do with decorating

I keep throwing words into the well, in the hope they might echo back

Last night’s dream logic: being fired while in a country house hotel, then buying loads of Washington Redskins merch in a warehouse without a ladder but with the help of Austrian ski students, then writing a book on how supporting the Redskins brought me closer to god

Nurdle > nudge

noise noise noise signal noise noise

Management of woo

Lazer guided profanities

Oh dear lord the idiocy has begun and it is not even 9.30am yet

Hello ghosts, good to see you again

Fidget fidget widget; dig it?

Roll on, roll on

*shakes fist at sky*

Seasons is as seasons does

No one will love you in a thousand years

Nudging, nurdling, juggling – is this what progress feels like?

I suppose the world has always been on fire

For all of you toiling in the information mines today…

Time turned older now

Have managed to squirt orange juice down my shirt, sweat at client idiocy and say – out loud! – “If dick moves keep happening to you, maybe you’re the dick.” this morning so far. How’s your day going?

‘Domino Dancing’ in my head on a loop

My ego’s feeling bruised; sign up to [https://tinyletter.com/betarish] and make it better

What’s in the word hoard?

And then we came to a beginning

Omnichannel poetry

Hi my name is Rishi and I’ma  book addict (looks longingly at calendar for pay day)

Personally I’m in the market for a Corporal Strike

So someone called ‘Evil’ wants to connect with me on LinkedIn how’s your day going?

I’m having Strong and Important Feelings

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Onwards, onwards

Props to anyone giving ashes this Valentine’s day

Life skills they don’t teach you: how to deal with low-level uncertainty

And then we begin again

Magic is as magic does

Remind me never to complain about not being busy. #whydoikeepsayingyes

Friday will mostly be brought to you by grumbles about email tone and back pain

I’d vote for the party that delivers adult snow days

Bereft, as I forgot my fountain pen again

I’ll let you know when I feel my face again

Hello hello I see some industry had its work outing last night

Nose / glass / press

Not sure I have all the words I need today

Whipjack Friday

Spring rain, spring sneezes

Leading from the desk today

So how did you spend that one day of Spring?

I appear to have misplaced an hour

Apparently the modern world’s answer to the productivity crisis is duplication of my effort

keeps getting the ideas / time ratio wrong

If the sea is analogue, does that make the sky digital?

Oh hayfever up yours (or rather up my nose)

April skies a little bit too April-ish for my taste

There should be a sporting event called the ‘Hyper Bowl’. Imagine the hyperbole around it

Look, I like grey; I have nothing against grey, appreciate its calm balancedness. BUT FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY PLEASE CAN THERE BE A BLUE SKY AGAIN, JUST ONCE?

Sun’s out, grumps out, apparently

Oh hayfever up yours (nose, specifically)

Oh Cheltenham, I am bringing you snot

At this stage, I can’t tell whether it’s hayfever or a cold

Work/cough/work/sneeze/work/blow nose

New growth market: Bitcoin but for my snot

Go on Spring, stay sprung

Looks like we made it

Thinking about the sea again

Oh plans, I knew ye once

How is the day running away from me already?

First in the studio means all three Super Discount LPs ready to go

Has the bunting come down yet?

On the edge… of what I know not

Sleep shouldn’t still be in my eyes three hours after waking up, right?

has a rattlesnake handshake

Red shirt in the morning, words will be burning

Last night I dreamt Richard Skinner had developed a special course for me: ‘How to write your novel by learning from DJs’ – the guest tutor was DJ Shadow

Was Doubting Thomas doubtful about his soubriquet?

Monday why so grey?

Hello blank page, my taskmaster and paycheque

Scratchy Friday ahoy!

Merit is as merit does?

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His Name Is Alive in my memory

A flung trident is my spirit weapon

Idly contemplating what would happen if we turned Buckingham Palace into the world’s biggest Pret…

‘Tisn’t the season ye

No 5am thinking is ever useful thinking #sleepy

Too much grey

Sleepy in my soul

Big Coat Day C-1

Too many places, too many choices

My tetrameter is loose

Is it vain to want to be less vain?

The struggle is realer than I thought it’d be

Day 3 of no caffeine

Well at least my teeth are healthy

Thank you so much for all your kind birthday wishes. You’re all marvellous

is a missing impact assessment

is having a quaggy day

My desk is so cold I can’t type without getting frostbite

is sliding into being delicate

I think next year I need a ‘Dastidar x [name]’ diffusion collaboration line

Sleepwalking into the future

Salute to all of us still working this week

A happy phlebotomist to start the day

Notes about notes

One more heave

Start your Christmas Eve the right way. With the Waitrose delivery arriving at 6.08am

Hello office: how have you been?

Grift as a governing strategy

Teenage tunes, so hard to beat

In a meritocracy, the best rebellion is to cultivate a lack of competitive spirit

To the blank page again!

In you wear a really wide collar, and turn it up, does it act as blinkers?

Tell you what. What.

Judging by the niggly nature of my interactions this morning, it appears people are taking this ‘Blue Monday’ for real

If we were meant to juggle, we’d have evolved more hands

The Age of Meetings

Rackets in the economy ⇒ Rickety lives

The time I have does not match up to other people’s perception of the time I have

Nowt so old-fashioned as a modernist

“The Fall: the sound of rock and roll falling backwards down the stairs.” – me, just now

Spoilt Victorian society

Printer has taken a holiday already

Hi I’m Rishi, and I’m a book addict

is a Superb Owl trick play

I see y’all made Snopes your algorithm god while I’ve been away

Is it the algorithm – or are you all just ignoring me?

This isn’t the mot juste, is it?

“It must be nice having [insert British politician’s name] on your side.” – nope, can’t see this working