Welcome.

I made a New Year’s resolution to try and be more creative in 2023. So, with that in mind, I will be trying my hand at a bit of writing in my spare time.

They say you can only hope to write songs as good as your record collection… so expect some very amateurish imitations of Hemingway, Camus and Kerouac!

The name of this website comes from one of my favourite Bob Dylan songs: It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding). Therefore, what better way to begin, than by trying to write another three verses of this masterpiece; with a modern twist. A cynical world view, alliteration and internal rhymes are the name of the game here.

Silent screens dictate the rules
As folk seek solace in the cyber cesspool
Chasing hits and likes from online ghouls
Faking content to make their users drool
Forsake themselves for digital jewels
And wonder why they feel empty

For the market’s hunger knows no bounds
It consumes the soul as greed is crowned
In a plastic palace raised from the ground
While the endless race to grow and compound
Makes it impossible for the truth to be found
That enough is more than plenty

In this age of noise, where silence flees
We shout for meaning, drowning in the seas
Of shallow thoughts and easy tease
We drift apart with inevitable ease
Yet before the screens we’re on our knees
Praying for an iPhone 20

But don’t mind too much what I write
It’s only a feather in a cannon fight
It’s alright, Ma, I’m only blogging

Apologies to all Dylanolgists out there!

And now for the man himself: