NOTES:

Beauty demands,
Behind the Yellow line,
Rough ground for the blind,
The boy with the ‘I Fell Infinite’ tattoo kills time,
On the Piccadilly line

(K)

THE RE-WRITE:

Crying spotlight woman eats wires,
Immaculate monochrome polka-dot fringe,
Tiny mouth looks away,
Escapes,

Hurt reads the morning rag,
Down a nose at a ringing phone,
Summer legs exposed in the luggage rack,
Shock poll predicts backlash,

Whispering lips talk into hands,
Slow running lists,
Fists longer than arms,
Secrets concealed in crowds,

Bored sleepless stares,
Resting in palms on elbows,
Spaced,
Chisel-toe sharp,

Grey-on-Grey-on-Black-on-Gold,
A ghost of an idea of someone half remembered

(K)

UNITED FOOTWEAR:

Flowers        Juice
Dance          Pole
Wet             Red & White
Stronger      Quicker
Grit             Salt
Think          Don’t think
Silent          Bridge
Laughing    Water
Stick          Sculpture
Queens      Beacon
Angers       Tunnel
No-No        Billboard
Shadows    Window
Diggers      Jam
Custard      Walls
Your name   Here
Stacked Blue   Jam
Slow Red     Electric
Whispering   Rubber
Yellow         Camera
King            Wholesale
PVC           Window
Sewn on     Logos

(K)

WITH FINGERS JUMP:

It’s Green & fast,
Red with numbers,
Numbers with cameras,
Red with electric,
Black with wires,
Yellow with stones,
Wet with lilies,
Broken with ivy,
White with metal,
Blue with arrows,
Fabulous with rain,
Black with patience,
White with flowers,
Fast with horns,
Tall with wood,
Green with silence,
Black with complaints,
White with names,
Peach with windows,
Glass with empty,
Wet with fingers,
Wet with circles,
Purple with exaltation,
Fast with shadows,
Slow with twigs,
Blue with bottles,
Black with bicycles,
Blue with eyes,
Red with walking,
Yellow with standing,
Wet with metal,
Wet with rubber,
Sneezing with fingers,
Open with courtesy,
Black with shaking,
Spots with sheltering,
Blonde with looking,
Money concealing,
Orange snaking,
Naked elation,
Gathered in threes,
Small & perfect,
Dirty & abandoned,
Zinc & sheer,
Green & rhythm,
Red on a weekend,
Floating messages,
Silent time,
Silver concealed,
Wet forever,
Stacked in Blue,
Silence in towers,
Walking conscious,
Leaving slowly,
Speaking electric,
Floating invitation,
Weeping willow,
Alone unshaven,
Alone with messages,
Standing stone,
Red with brick,
Metal with rhythm

(K)

STREAMING:

It’s going backwards,
But I’m going forwards,
She’s still sleeping,
But I’m awake,
She see’s problems,
I find solutions,
It’s raining,
Beautiful,
I like getting wet,

Grey is fantastic,
The roofs of buildings,
The backs of Giant lizards,
Sleeping,

She’s awake ’til dawn,
Counting spiders,
Streaming stories,
My story is a lizard

(K)

WERE ARE YOU GOING?:

I’m going to the VIP,
A concealed place,
Beyond imagination,
When I am there I am a better person,

Today,
I am Silver,
One day,
I will be Gold

(K)

WHERE ARE YOU GOING?:

I’m going to the shower,
Wash the smoke machine off me,
The smoke of cigarettes off me,
The sting in the eyes I haven’t felt for years,
No,
I tell a lie,
It was that night in a Berlin club,
The band with the random lap top,
And fluttering drummer,
And the guy who jammed a screwdriver
Between the strings of his vintage Fender,
Remember?
The pickups sounded great,
Well,
I had a revelation that night,
All the answers to our problems,
Speed writing in a corner of the club,
I think I freaked your friends out,
And in return they made my clothes stink,
I think that was the last time I breathed cigarettes,
No,
I tell a lie,
It was in the smoking garden of a North London pub,
Under strings of fairy lights,
With a girl in t-shirt & jeans
Who thought she was a sound engineer,
She mixed your sound like crap,
I wrote it down in a corner,
Over soda & lime,
And a friend with his girlfriend,
I don’t think he liked it,
But she danced to the music looking happy,
So I think she did,
I’m going for a shower,
But the smoke at the back of my eyes wont come out,
It stings,
And not even these bananas,
Nor these spicy nuts,
Can take it away
As I climb into the white car with 6 O’clock Dave,
He keeps his head shaved,
As we drive to the airport,
It goes with his skinny black jacket & jeans,
And the cream leather interior of his luxury wheels,
All the way to the sky,
When I get home I’m going to shower it all off,
Especially that smell,
At the side of the stage,
Of bottled gas from caravanning summers,
No one could smell it as I wiped my face with tiny towels,
Tiny towels for tiny singers

(K)

SUNLIT MONOCHROME SOFT FOCUS BED:

Smoking lobster,
Move inside,
The line,
The circle,
Passenger,

Sweet rust the negative,
White words,
Weed free,
Clean crack,
My concrete star

(K)

ANDRE & MALEVICH:

Standing in the corner with wires,
Back to the glass,
Fast Green,
Sliding,
Rides,

Words show the whites of their eyes,
Never collide,
Too fast,
Places without names,

Elderberry crowns,
Wool before the sheering,
Dips it’s face,
In sweet cushioning,
Up between the naked toes,
Pylons skipping rope,
Balance clouds on wires,
Arms outstretched
Eyes closed,
Humming,
Gone

(K)

INTO THE OUT OF THE:

We’ve got two bosses,
Intolerance,
And Broken Leg,

We’ve got a new project manager who’s trying to impress,

She invited us to lunch,
And nobody came,

She came over in a huff,
And said,

“Don’t tell anyone,
But would you,
Come to lunch with me?”

I mean!

We’ve got two bosses,
Intolerance,
And Broken Leg

(K)