The Hard Shoulder

Everyone is a story

Inside the frozen container wastes

Are stories

People as produce

Cling to the idea of the Human

The networks of the command

Guiding the flightpaths that cluster

On an Earth so simple

26 million views

Survival instinct / bone creak / Greek mythology / topographic oceans

Conspiracy survivalist / crack pots / pony-tailed nerd nut jobs / the head bob

Grinding beauty / shake a tail feather / the grimace / the feel-up

Slobs / jobs / knobs / cobs

Incandescent fury behind the wheel

Surveying the landscape from the M6 motorway

Looking for job opportunities along the hard shoulders

Not forgetting the cold shoulders

Jostling and pushing their way to the front

Sudden truck pulls out now blocking two lanes

Response time quickens

POP MASTER, testing your pop knowledge to its limit.

Are you a pop master, will you reach out in the darkness?

For me, for us, for the stranded in a blackened frozen space eyes glazing

Over, phone screen frosting, Red Kites on the updraft hovering

On the M40 shudder of moving metal and Ginsters packets

Twisting in the backdraft, clumps of toilet tissue attached to the branches of scrubby trees

On this HARD

Shoulder.