Author: aiureapress

What was it worth

Not nearly enough

What to do now

Take my best nuked selfie

#Imnukedtoo

Oh well, there goes life

It’ll be cheaper anyway

And quiet…

No more cunty bosses

And no more screaming kids

No more phones

And no more phone chargers

No more 70s porn

And no more dreams

No more you

And no more me.

Bogdan Tiganov

My life is a punchy
I-faced-adversity-and-won
Poem
On Facebook
Or LinkedIn
Where ‘friends’
Can like or love
And call me inspirational.

Bogdan Tiganov

Today I seem fascinating

Tomorrow I am dead

Peeling back the skin

Hellraiser


So boring

All this pretense

Waiting for the bomb

And God


There is no answer

There is no truth

Even fuckin John

Lennon was a lie


Disappointing

An only child

A bastard I

Gave up on my dreams

Bogdan Tiganov

Remember when we were
Like sticks
Rattling in the wind,
Bouncing around schools,
Homes, cinemas and, later,
Pubs.

So vulnerable
With crap hair
And cheap clothes,
Head down
Ashamed of everything –
Nobody cared yet
Nobody wanted us to win.

Those were
The best years of our lives,
They were,
And, luckily,
We won’t ever
Have to live them again.

Bogdan Tiganov

Stern, stiff and standoffish
Hard and dismissive
Pained and dissatisfied
But people expect things
All the time
A certain flexibility
A way in

We grow into these trees
Bolted to our roots
And everything is water

It takes a certain type
Your type
To walk away
From your sons
And don’t look back
Stone-faced
In the present
Asleep on the sofa
Drunk

Bogdan Tiganov

Half-answered prayers
Ghosted messages
Interest lost
Immediately

Superficial relationships
Contrived social media lives
Wannabes, credit cards
Paycheque to paycheque
Anxious corporate robots

Depressed
Flicking through Netflix
Spotify, Amazon, eBay
Living inside six glowing inches
Of banal fantasies

Bogdan Tiganov

Was in 1999 for my 18th birthday
He took me to the pub
Bought me a Guinness and said
Now you can drink

I used to be in awe
Of his grizzled face, cold eyes
And stern handshake –
I’d laugh nervously
Yes, dad,
I thought I had to please
To be loved

Ha. Ha.

Life is like that is it not
Nonsensical and shitty

Bogdan Tiganov