FIRST WORDS OF NOTEBOOK March 1994:

Playgirl shots
triple D
2 beers

Don’t you dare move ’till I get back
Check for bread, milk & alcohol 
I’m on a mission tonight

What are you drinking?

‘If you don’t use the bins provided you can’t come in’

said the sign 
in the back room
of the Ministry of Sound

(K)

FIRST WORDS OF NOTEBOOK 27th Nov 1993:

The soap frog’s sitting in your bathroom
the orange water in your bath
boasting numbers
grunting, grinning
beautiful
don’t speak nothing

Supercooled oxygen air hole
how big do you think your tomato can get?

Rubber chalk boy
Rubber in the dark

that familiar canteen smell
custard & vinegar 

(K)

FIRST WORDS OF NOTEBOOK 6th Oct 1993:

Blue sky
seeded Winter
sharp infector 
colds & flu’s & double anxious 

praying for a pay rise
Hunting Funk in Clerkenwell Tunnel
Mind the Gap
turn on the heat
speak like a fuzz tone
metal mouth
bold head
white fun fur jacket
red tie
squinty ticket 
And soft blue monogrammed slippers
Alone with the 3 tone velvet 
on the Thames Link north
hunting Funk

(K)

FIRST WORDS OF NOTEBOOK (later) 1993:

Sex Junkies & exploding poodles
quiver in your conquered blood
but I knew you as a new virus
tasting of bliss

fill me with your Superdrug
And bury me in Heaven 
peel my skin 
so I can listen to your spirit sing

Shatter me
but shelter me
from the white noise of Machine storms

Passport in the pocket
Out on Forbidden Planet again
filled with fat dreams

(K)

FIRST WORDS OF NOTEBOOK (later) 1993:

Sex Junkies & exploding poodles
quiver in your conquered blood
but I knew you as a new virus
tasting of bliss

fill me with your Superdrug
And bury me in Heaven 
peel my skin 
so I can listen to your spirit sing

Shatter me
but shelter me
from the white noise of Machine storms

Passport in the pocket
Out on Forbidden Planet again
filled with fat dreams

(K)

FIRST WORDS OF NOTEBOOK 25th April 1993:

The air is sweet
everything is green
life – rioting

us two in limbo
circling each other
whispering across thousands of miles

(K)

FIRST WORDS OF NOTEBOOK April 1993:

Velvet ghetto 
This flight is late
pick up a leaflet 
crack the code

Wolf’s 6th Avenue
Tuna salad sandwich
Jet-lag & Flu-bug are in love in my body

shadow in the head
Mothers of propaganda 
frustration 

oh Carol
my name is bigger in lights
gets smaller in time
in bed with the long-knives

(K)

FIRST WORDS OF NOTEBOOK (later) 1992:

Leeches & freaks
Fax machines
background noise
Holistic dolphin 

It’s quicker by tube
8 second relief 
obstructing the doors
causes delays & can be dangerous
milk chocolate guarantees you satisfaction 
chocolate stains
really satisfies
tiny chocolate thing

it’s dark & cold on Sunday night
Liverpool street to Romford
Superbowl Minnesota 
Pizzas & beer
City of hope
city of dreams

(K)

FIRST WORDS OF NOTEBOOK Jan 1992:

Sweet wind & rain
shake well before use she said
you never touch me
this way before

Twin cities
phone sex
receiver 
connector 
connector
connector

(K)

FIRST WORDS OF NOTEBOOK (later) 1991:

Big Play thing
total big disorientate
what’s my number?
put your hands in your head it makes you want to sing!

(K)