Wednesday, April 22, 2009
i wrote this last night while half asleep and without internet. i will preserve it as i wrote it, including sentences that don’t make sense and inconsistent capitalisation. i was basically asleep when i wrote this. POSTCARDS usually it takes the whole family ten minutes to work out what three sentences mean. letters just clog [...]
MUSIC HALL In Aldgate we talked about the Romans and you showed me fake coins you’d bought, had passed off as real to kids at school and they’d then punched you in the face. You had a walkman in your bag held together by silver tape, and we sat on the side of a building [...]
PILLOW I see you on the wrong side of 5am dropping broken crockery in the dustbin with a dent in it at the front of your driveway. Your coat could be a dressing gown. I try to sleep through the birds and have to hide my head under the pillow because it’s so light. I’m [...]
complete block. this isn’t even anything. FIRE Candles were covering the floor when I got back like a cloth that you’d forgotten to pick up – some of them were face down in their own ashes and oil, some still pointed at the ceiling. None of them were lit, I realise that you’re not that [...]
almost didn’t post this, but for the sake of completeness… this is really dreadful, i am reaching new lows. TOO STUPID FOR DERRIDA I tried everything to understand. Apparently you joked around a lot, which is good to know. I watched you on youtube and was bemused because you prefaced an interview answer by drawing [...]
i’ll stop writing about london soon HIGHGATE you are always unhappy in highgate. i visited you at home once and was surprised that you left the windows open all night so the curtains flapped in the cold and also that there were so many cuttings on your wall about the highgate vampire. you said your [...]
OMG IT’S SO LATE I APOLOGISE!! the soundtrack to this is emmy the great’s “two steps forward” and the first song on the amelie soundtrack. SWEARING ON THE HORNS I knew a boy who said he was so cockney that he was born in the churchyard as the bells rang, and he was brought up [...]
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
i really want to go to london. anyway this comes to you with an idea from iain sinclair’s lud heat and info from wikipedia, as well as a playlist i made of songs about london. today’s recommended london songs are the magnetic fields’ “all the umbrellas in london” and noel coward’s “london pride”. this is [...]
oh god, what. i apologise. i made a playlist of anti-police songs earlier. in case i didn’t make it clear enough in the poem, i am not a fan of the band the police. and right now i’m listening to black flag’s “police story”, so, yeah. DETECTIVE I first knew you when we took a [...]
wtf. just, what. i apologise. PRACTICAL CRITICISM “Your shoes are going to fall apart if you wear them outside often,” she said, and the loose tongues of her doc martens were laughing. “You’re making a basic error,” I said, and scuffed the side of my shoe on the garden wall we were passing. “What if [...]
