but im fucking ok

hey, joyful girl..
see that fray we missed and
maybe be part of it?

no joy shared and all was fascile
you reggae dancing
and me - well fucked.

O Business Plan O Business Plan

We'll not carry the can - o business plan.

#prisonvoicemail

'Twas heaven, but not for thee...

We'd visited the cafe for ages.

It was just so cool: Full of prisoners
all getting the very best out of our tax-payers money
and being re-habilitated right before our eyes and knives and forks

When we met you in the sauna like that,
It was a shock. We didn't recognise you with your clothes on.

I suppose I just felt a bit scared in such a confined space.

I don't mean to say there's any good reason
- I just mean that, you know, that - it's just a bit

odd.

That's all.

When you told us how all the prison workers only get £29 a week
and how they have to pay twice the rate for everythng in the prison shop

and some of those things you said - the stabbings and...

It was so awful and then I just got scared.

I am so sorry.

And that guy who was just going to the family courts to get to see his kid...

I've had JAmes look it up on the CPR rules and you are quite right

"It's criminal" you said - "It's Criminal what the CPS are doing"

What can we do?

Just tell us and we'll do it... anything.

Anything at all.

Give our love to Brenda when you see her.
We're so glad you've come through this and we're
really pleased you can now go to work and see the girls..
It's really wrong that they take so much of your wages

when the girls really need it.

6 months and you will be free.

I guess it's best we don't say anything about any of this -
at least until you are completely free.."?

Clyde and Co - This Is Not an Advertisement

Too full of ourselves:

Turning a gut, in sight of the Gherkin
Grayson Perry and George Shaw. Light and dark.
Arty Speed Dating on the 13th floor.
Some feel awkward, some might thrive,

Ghandi's maxim: 'Find yourself by taking an interest in others'

Altruism's good for business.

"Say not what you want to say about yourself,
Say only what you think They might want to hear"

"get people to talk about themselves
so you can frame what to say about you."

Not so much: "I am the greatest thing since Caligula"
but more: "Worship me now in the east -
but when I am dead, you may worship me in Rome"

(Knowing what everyone else wants is also safer
when whatever you want just aint happening)

Other titbits of arts promoter logic and experience were spread
but in the end, what gave the game away:

We never ever met our hosts, who shall remain un-named except for in the title of this poem.

Superficial Extremes

We're built to interact.
If you experience a full sense of your capacity in this respect
Just join in.

Whistling

Whistling In The Dark

WHIstling
WHIstling
Alone and it's dark and I'm Whistling

Nobody behind, no-one in front.
No Behind, no front:

Wind, whistling
In the dark.

Aeolius, Blood and Mercury ( Or: How I Learned To Hate Paul Simon)

This word blew away behind the door,
Through a crack in the plaster yet spread
like blood on a marble floor - as plastic
as meaning ever could be. As fluid as mercury.

That one, darted and lodged in the outside wall
where students passed by, muttering new words
about the institution or binary opposites or
other words, all moving in directions of some tongue

or another...

The words inside you all together, just massed
Words were no  longer enough but then,
neither was form. Nothing was enough
No things, no word, no deed was enough.

Maybe blood and mercury ought not to mix
Maybe blood and mercury can coalesce in magic
but not in everyday conversation - maybe.
Colour, divergence, love: all blown away.

Death and Birth

What other change happens quickly in relation to the evolution of the whole?

Place

Auxillary microphone - socket
Testicles, Asbestos and Sprawl

Disappointing looms of tired
and animated balls.

I, by Jove and Daniel Blake
imagining common operas

do reside by the level crossing with dogs.

A Node

make shape form ways of ways
old roads, meanderings
old train lines canals dried up
tow path cut back here to there

all those passages and paths
places and days. Ways, always,

always moving on, all ways
leading from one thing to a next:
History revealing, making
shaping, forming, leading on

do we know any other ways?
we could walk them back
to the beginning or just start again -
but they all go the right ways

our ways are much the same
so, just wander. It's ok.

Dear Donald

I had to write to someone today, so I thought I'd write to you, Donald.

'Congratulations' is, I suppose, the first thing to say. You pulled it off. Fair play to you. Whatever anyone might think, actually becoming the president of the USA is no small feat, so in that, if nothing else, you have my respect.

I have to be honest and say that you didn't have it in many other areas before that. I'm vaguely aware that you pissed off the Scots in some of your golf course dealings and I know you've been on the end of allegations about sexual offences. But I wont make any judgements on the basis of allegations. You're entitled to be where you are and you've earned it.

I even had the realisation that I agree with one of your foreign policies: That of siding with Russia to bring security first to the Middle East. I think we have all been very 'Russo-Phobic' in our dealings with this and far too quick to use blame to avert our own huge failings.

I don't think the fact that you are orange, or that your hair seems a tad impossible, or that you do weird stuff with hand gestures should be signalled and used to pejorate you or your views.

Now that you are president (if not before) you deserve to be taken seriously and on merit from this day. Maybe you will actually teach all of us liberal, or even neo - liberal, chattering, moralising classes that nobody has a monopoly on values or opinions and that being of a particular socio economic class or social group doesn't make anyone more right than anyone else.

I do wish you well.

Everyone agreed that we needed major change if not a revolution in public life. You're the unlikely guy who's going to give it to us. OK, we'll start there. No-one gets to have change on their own terms without resorting to illegality, coercion or cruelty to get it. You wouldn't do any of those things would you? So, I'm with you mate. Damn it. I'm going to trust you.

The only thing I think I should mention - just so we know where we stand - is that if you start to talk about my Mexican friends, or my black friends, or even my Korean friends, any of my friends actually, in any way that belittles them for who they are...

I was going to say I'll chop off you're fucking orange tits - but that's just locker room talk. No, but I will have you impeached in an instant because we do have laws about that sort of thing - as you will know coz hey - you're the president! LOL!

We do have laws about that sort of thing don't we?

Good luck.

Mr A Phelps, Westboro Baptist Church.

x

One Verse Song

look at that little misplaced love
one life's tragedy,
paint brushes in hand

Hey Books...

I didn't read any of you while you surrounded me
You kept us alive and you were always reliable
When hard times fell down on us, you fell like rain
Some ethereal justice, of timing or serendipity bound us

up, unlikely, but we lasted longer than most
and it wasn't just about staying together for love.
It was real. But then, I started to read you.
I started to understand things behind your insulating spines.

Books - 

Message

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Press: "Send". Press: "Send". Press: "Send". Press: "Send".
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Move to 'sent' folder?

Delete all items?

Seek benevolent advice on matters of the soul's jeopardy?

Civil emergency in this area
Piracy is not a victimless crime

You are entitled to food, clothing, shelter and medical attention
Anything else you get is a privilege

Parking Only-
Violators will be buried alive:

'Twas heaven here with you.



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