Streetlights

slanted through blinds

and made the wall

a television.

We dived beneath sheets

as the bedroom

was uncarpeted,

the central heating

didn't work

and the nights

were freezing.

It wasn't quite our dream

because only we weren't naked

(wearing

warm but unappealing

winceyette pyjamas)

or blessed by the sun

and life soon in...

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after seeing Carcer City at the Westy

“Had T. S. Eliot been born in the late 1980s I have no doubt that he would be standing on a dingy stage, clad in a Converse T-shirt roaring incomprehensibly about April being the cruellest month.” The Dreaded Press

In the morning I watched the 2012 Olympic torch

being lit by the sun (it only took a few seconds)

while a group of Gree...

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He said one day you will be totally deaf

and before I left said Thank you to the Doctor

even though his gift was a sentence

to be carried out at some unspecified date.

While I was able I had to go to Montreux

to hear at least Miles Davis, Gary Burton,

BB King, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman,

Keith Jarrett, Sun Ra and Horace Silver.

And I had to hear everything i...

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