THE IDEA

The idea I heard loud and clear

coming through the quasi-sentient air.

The idea was not my idea.

Still, I liked the idea.

It was all about Freedom and Fairness.

It was to explore my own

capacity for genius and genesis

more than someone else’s for once.

It was about dismantling power,

agglomeration, monopoly.

If I ...

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NOTES AT THE FOOT OF THE FELL

One star leads to another star,

one star leads to another star,

at lightfade at the foot of the fell.

*

Although I worked selling Timeshare once,

at a lovely resort up the valley road

I am not here to sell you the Lakes,

for the Lake District is not for sale…

*

Here, you say “hello” when you walk

past som...

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BURNED TOAST

Why do I like the criticism of Hugo Williams? It is because he writes essays the shape and texture of balloons. My mother was mad on balloons and had us all photo’d before piles of them, saying “Death” to the camera. Hugo Williams is also Norwegian; and my mother was the pollen smuggler who returned Norway’s stolen pollen to Norway. It had been borrowed by the Australians whom...

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AWAY WITH THE FAIRY LIQUID

As if even Natural things

are given over once again

to a Barthesian world

of product placement,

it might be instructive to consider

the healing of my busted,

dusty Hooverbag lungs…

once I was away

with the Fairy Liquid.

I became interested

in the switch thrown.

There were new maps sprawled

on the point of...

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SMART-TALK ON HEARTBOOK

Up all night working the legend who said he would plug his senses in the mains

incoming voices seem to be Smart-talking

Simon says fragmented for reasons of solidarity with the dispossessed of the world

feeling the Age of Communication = the Age of Alienation I am

making par for the coursework assignment whose hand-in date was deca...

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THE DEATH OF ROCK N ROLL

Di di dit di di dit di di dit dit dit

Di di dit di di dit di di dit dit dit

Di di dit di di dit di di dit dit dit

Bring bring

bring bring

“Hello?”

Gold member, you're the one,

the one with the heart of gold

Vowels, pure vowels 

Immanuel Kant

will come to thee 

with immanence

You come home smacked up you c...

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DEFACED BANK NOTES

This text is painstakingly transcribed from defaced bank notes. Some of the bank notes are damaged, illegible, others missing. Efforts have been made to order the bank notes but were not always successful. No efforts were made to authorial-fingerprint the voice or psychoanalyse the handwriting. The text is not necessarily a critical indictment of embedded liberal c...

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THAT BLACK NATURAL E

Where once I wandered far and wide 

on a field-file, a file-field, 

a fenceless farm without 

security alarm where all hearts bleed

and all arts breed, now Hell

is very quiet, unadvertised.

McBreastmilk, 

McBreastmilk, 

don’t feed your kids.

Gentle face erasing cream,

smear it in and let it sink

down through the pores of your ...

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