i found your fingernails in my cereal again this morning
then you float in to the room like a virus or a daydream
we take out our eyes and place them on the table
such horrible things, like birthday jelly they wait patiently
for the atrocities to occur, a metronomic ebb and flow
a cat is rescued from a fire/five dead in school shooting
Bloody genius Stu.
I'm just sitting here in a really peculiar mood
thinking........................................'what if they made Stu Buck Poet
Laureate?'
Trying to fathom the depths of meaning here. The first line is startling and shocking, tossed out quite casually. In modern life we've become accustomed to horror. It also reminds me of a comic I read once where a guy in a fast food joint finds a finger in his burger and jumps through a plate glass window.
Nice work Stu.
thanks all! as ever, it means a lot
hope your all keeping well
Not responding to this would be a travesty Stu. Your work is always challenging,and this can't be ignored. The word virus has a special significance for me, as there is a sense of infection throughout. The world of the immediate and the spreading of vicious circles all close in and well described in short form.
The taking out of the eyes reminds me of the creature in Pan's Labyrinth. Scary stuff.
Ray
Yeah the world is definitely more surreal at times than a painting a poem or any other art form. I remember watching the Vietnam war on T.V which was probably the first real televised war and being horrified at what we the viewers were being asked to take on board as numbingly normal. All that happens now has certainly got worse.
nice one Stu
elPintor
Mon 6th May 2019 08:08
How else to get through breakfast...?
PS
I don't mean to be cryptic, Stu, but life is so surreal like this sometimes.
Rachel )
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Stu Buck
Wed 8th May 2019 11:50
thanks both!
poet laureate. yeah i'd give it a go!
john, weirdly i remember that comic but have no idea why