Thursday, 4 July 2013

HOSPITAL TV MENU MUSIC


red is screwed into balls 
on 
frozen waves of tissue blue drapes
where kidney shaped silver boats 
ding 
like 
bells

special steel opens a body
like 
meat 
but breathing and beating

behind the wheeled folding wall 
staff are a clot of blue concern
ready
waiting
masked
and 
watching the dirt of saviours wrench our bones apart

the air is thick with silence and noise

BUT
an electric ditty with a mechanised beat
like from a video game on a CRT TV
like a dream . . .
runs on 
endless 
and 
ignored

its WHEN THE SAINTS COME MARCHING IN
and
my pendulum steps falter
its like a dark skit/a black sketch
with
no
punchline in sight



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