Ian Badcoe Poetry

  And as she... ...starts to sprint she pulls her self, one foot sticking slightly, out of time -- the external world slowing between one fo...

Safeguarding the chain of evidence The police has started putting crime scene tape round places where no crime has ever been. It's...

And should the unknowable come... "These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all t...

When there's a murder in an old, old movie... Please try to keep sand off the body! The SOCO shouts for the seventeenth time. Ho...

There are certain global roles which are more important than run of the mill A-list celebrities and international leaders. One of these ro...

Alternative Forms of Government (an occasional series) Number 2 Agatha Christocracy As part of a clever system of checks and balan...

The guide to nine utopias III -- Secure Police Surveillance Bureau Info Desk -- it is a long queue, isn't it? No surprise. Why...

The official prompt for today is a poem using the imagery of a sport or game. I'm not 100% this one works.  It's not using the ima...

The challenge here was a poem about a closed door.  I've taken that figuratively again.  The real door in this poem is glass and the cha...

Alternative Forms of Government (an occasional series) Number I P. G. Wodehocracy As laid down in the many works of theory penne...

He Do the Police in Different Voices was T. S. Eliot's working title for The Wasteland.   Eliot was quoting Dickens: ...Sloppy is ...

It's good to have a hobby.  It's good to have an interest.  An over whelming passion can be a good thing too. Then there's th...

Funny isn't that easy to do in poetry, and sometimes isn't productive.  Amusing is easier to achieve, and I think less likely to g...