Thursday 27 August 2020

 


Good Cheese Dishes.

First comes one then

There are two,

More ultimately will find their way in.

Flung centrifugal against Time; marked by hailstones like golf balls crashing through pine forest fronds herald an encomium that calls the beaten to name.

Island of cargo containers rearranges itself according to weather conditions daily, coming in and out of view; shimmering as it melts over the axis edge. Stopping to hold a conch to the ear; on breathing out a spray of cabbage whites. Flush with pockets bare and sockets sucked where eyes once were. We are worth a fortune.

Away from the waspish lagoon we simmer inland. There is turbulence in the heart of this exotic and bewildering air space; travelling around as if permanently looking out from within at people existing elsewhere. The shingle rolls in folded tributaries to meet the sea. Crystal placid memory haze. In silhouette there you are, collecting shells.

Footprints crunch to flint lined ossuary; a pine dampened furze fizzled burnt out thoughts. 

Carpet of pine cones soiled tissues litter; a seedy furtive musk metres from the roadside; always in shade.

Void. Still. Nothing.   

Sink in suiceaside, disappear or collapse into the earth up to our necks. 

A curved arc of dorsal muscle cuts through perfectly rounding the swell; then disappears off again. 

Harrier hovers, flight line insight to radar station gold teeth clenched, graffiti “Go Home!”

Tuesday 4 August 2020

Old and boring songs.


Tap tap tap drift light as dust summer cataclysm days hollow and riney blowing forwards like so much glitter. Midsummer distilled nothingness even the car is driving itself today.

Sweat harmonics come to these ears. All that is left of blood pressure skull bone flying westwards. Closer, hold still against the sill; crushed shells random foliage against bare feet. The old place in sight; holding breath now, perspiring in summer stillness. John Clare close at hand, footings to scramble soils sandy clays bright orange with jagged shards of flint installed to light the way. Do we know the host that brought us here; what value is it to be worth something to somewhere? Value and quality collaborate in steel, sweat and then some. The place is artificial now; a memory museum. Old municipal building now castles; rubble islands, the nation’s glands pulse entrails, networks of sealed errors. Calumny of increased bandwidths, long slow drones where semi silent pulses of voice surface occasionally from the hovering dust motes into actual recognisable speech patterns. Then take the train Brighton, you will be staying in the formerly bombed out section of the Metropole. Look there for clues; remnants of Thatcher’s Britain. “Please be my friend,” a voice beckons from the corridor like the twins from The Shining ; a glimpse and their gone. “Room service!!!!”

 

Musicians, daemons, gather round! 

47 years of crap underneath me, stacked like mount Everest, flowing into undulating vistas of hard encrusted shite. Spiralling off into the distance; forming valleys and canyons as far as the horizon. 

To summon the energy to clamber off this mound of brown is too great so here I sit on my throne of shit. Surveying the landscape with a mixture of pride and remorse. Everyone sits. Everyone shits.

Drizzle drazzle droozle dizzle. Dry liquid forms, corner of the mouth. It’s a hash pipe but we’re calling it a flute. They found it in the bushes. A mystery turd sits malevolently by the roundabout. A cluster of metallic blue shit fly’s shimmer across its surface each one never staying still for more than a second. I want to gag at the sight of it. Children  rush by narrowly avoiding catastrophe. In the shade under the tree line men wrestle on a blue plastic mat. Locked in positions; inaudibly grunting. Rustle buzz hum trains passing; the back and forth of the swings and on we go.