Shhh
Hear that

Click clack
Code in the floorboards
Hush hiss
Ink in the air

I see it in the tide
And the tall doors
Soft like a prayer
Sharp like a snare

Click clack
Code in the floorboards
Hush hiss
Close your eyes

If you don’t
Read the fine print
It reads you back
Right under the lights

I cracked a cold rune bone
True in the scholar’s tongue
Hidden in hymns
That the high halls hum

From mine dust mornings
To Thames side sun
A script in the silt
Where the truth plays dumb

Boardroom knights
With the cufflink gleam
Tap tap talk
In a banker’s den

They pour progress
Neat like a quiet dream
Then draw new borders
With an old ink pen

Reed smoke deep throat slow float
Click clack
Code in the floor
Won’t let go

Reed smoke sleep walk no jokes
Hush hiss
Truth in my teeth
Won’t let go

Tick tock
Pens in the margin lines
Thump thump
Truth under velvet speech

Maps get folded
Like pocket crimes
Stamped so clean
But it still can reach

Not a ghost story
Just doors that swing
Click of access
Clack of approved

A policy poem
That don’t say a thing
But moves your tomorrow
By what gets moved

Click clack
Code in the floorboards
Click clack
Code in the floorboards

Lusaka heat
Like a held back shout
Manchester rain
On a tin roof drum

St Louis neon
With a redline pout
Different streets
Same pull
Where you from

I read that pattern
In a handshake pause
In just sign here
With a sugar grin

Every promise
Got hidden clauses
Every help
Got a shadow in

Reed smoke deep throat slow float
Click clack
Code in the floor
Won’t let go

Reed smoke sleep walk no jokes
Hush hiss
Truth in my teeth
Won’t let go

Ports go chug chug
In the midnight air
Towers blink bzzzt
Like they breathing prayer

If the loop go whirr
And you still feel free
Check the mirror
Who teaching your feet

Click clack
Code in the floorboards
Hush hiss
Ink in the air

I see it in the tide
And the tall doors
Soft like a prayer
Sharp like a snare

Click clack
Code in the floorboards
Hush hiss
Close your eyes

But I wrote a new line
In the reed smoke now
Watch me rewrite the signs

Click clack
Bang bang
Boom boom
Knock knock
Is anybody there

Click clack
Bang bang
Boom boom
Knock knock
Is anybody there

Click clack
Bang
Boom

No crown
No throne

Just signal
And system

Let go
Let go