FOUND LIST 6

 

linux

pillow cases

call pdsa

edit lists

win

email james ellroy

text all

remember ?

tidy desk

back up

i like jam (strawberry)

photo Mashville Skyline from the Dagenham Archive

DREAM FUDGE POP DYLAN

 

the point of your brother
is to be not like you

bob dylan says to me

hes in his albert hall suit
hair nashville skyline short
&
he runs the bath taps
&
he stops the bath taps
&
he repeats this rhythmically

giving the plug hole
his interview stink eye

in the border town motel bathroom
we had crossed the manson desert to see


~


i dont think
theres water
here to spare
but

theres feedback sneers
on the dusty wind
coming in the open window

the thin curtain a wagging skein rag

so i keep my voyeur counsel

as bob is sprouting 

a blonde on blonde bouffant 


~


i dream-think i know i am dreaming

&
it takes the bite
out the ache of the cool

&
the dont-look-back backstage clash
of the zeitgeist invention tension

photo - Speed #54 from the Dagenham Archive

YOU REGULARS KNOW THIS / BONUS RHYME

birds chirp
in the red berry bush
dawn & 4 pm

you regulars know this

they chirp - fuck me
             eat this
             etc

~

no matter mind
who did or didnt
sign the
shortfall nuclear treaties
or
pressure pledge
to the climate commitments

~

the birds chirp
dawn & 4 pm
until i report otherwise
&
sit comfortably
if you can

till you cant anymore


~


theres only one end to this

said the mountains to the trees

the cutlery monkeys call for opiates

lets give them back to the sea

photo - Firmament No4 from the Dagenham Archive

SITCOM EXPLORATION VOL 3 & 4

build them of grit & balls

let the dark truths
scream

out
the
tv
cave

ridicule the very firmament

in 30 minutes of satirical art 

please

~

be a crazy mirror

not a middle england filter

no laughter-track 

no soft-sap sop

show us we ARE twats -

please

thats freedom

~

but its a moral fudge
    thats
    melted & pelted down

    thru the lock-on tube

    they throw it at you
    after-thought style

between hatchback & soda-pop ads

between family bank & getaway ads

~

show us we ARE twats -

please

thats freedom

photo Re-Up #4 from the Dagenham Archive

DREAM FUDGE POP COHEN

 

leonard cohen 

rode a lion

big as aslan

in from the nodding corn

&

thru a street  

of 

caveat-heavy dead

~

& 

new york 

art deco

kerbside 

furniture-finds

light as buddha 

& 

compassion poesy

lined his sentinel wake

photo - Garbage Flare from the Dagenham Archive

WE USED TO RHYME / RUBY ASHES AND THE WONDERMINDS

we lay like lushingtons

beneath rubys crown of splinters

& roses from summer slumber

turned her lips to frozen winters

the summer & its rain

combined her cool choices

& sang sweet sad disdain

on the earths breath & voices

despite the fire & the air

her body holds only water

we are landmass lost in mist

with autumns only daughter

the white peaks of winter

mock summers muggy troughs

one is in the others hand

promising spring & loss

in the day & the night

the wonderminds call it out

louder than the fifth angel

in the sunshine & the dark

~

theres burning & a glow

the fickle flicker of flame

theres two faces on fire

ruby ashes is her name

the only difference

between the love & the pain

is one is the other

& the other is the same

in the first taste & the last

bump bump hearts beat the same

mouths dry with nervous ashes

as our wonderminds go insane

the only difference

between her land & our sea

is our air & her water

are where each other should be

our handling of the meat

& our touching of the soul

will live forever together

if ruby ashes forgets her role

~

the only difference

between our love & our pain

is it hurts to be in love

& love loves to breed in pain

the last stab & first loss

bump bump hearts still pump the same

tears wet on rubys lashes

yes our wonderminds gone insane

ruby claims perfection

so we prove her perversion

& if we knew her soul & shoes

we would treat her with aversion

slowed & agitated

needing ruby to come to us

& with doubt but in memory

ruby comes without much fuss

she invades to surrender

red carpet of red ashes

a surprise night for our shoes

before bloody dawn crashes

~

close rubys heavy calm

is an eye away like anger

seems to be soothing our pain

but she moves like stranger

the wonderminds are looming

over ruby whos believing

in myxomatosis & acid rain

& the lives no ones leading

unaware of our power

smiles sabotage success

its mean & its tolerant

to dance with worry in our breast

so the blood & the sun

ruby ashes tastes them both

we stumble & fall on feet of brass

fathers undead son is the heavenly ghost

sounding to the depths of hell

rubys music rises to deaf gods

mans neat & portable ideas

are written with flame in the floods

~

ruby ashes has the keys

to both our life & our death

'i am the first & the last'

ruby ashes smiling said

ruby is the people

& her wisdom dies with her

upright man laughs in scorn

at the east wind blows inside her

ruby ashes gone now

& we take a long lone walk
down the empty corridor

time used to fill with talk

the skirting & a plug

mock wonderminds from below

for ruby has gone out now

leaving us stranger & low

pressure of modern life

& the fiction of abstention

is power to rubys teaching

then theres the bromide connection

~

& demon bromide comes

angry when we drink the coin

our laughter & our screaming

demon bromide binds into one

& if she takes our arm

her fingers sound the alarm

because ours is the danger

& ruby has bromide calm

& her hands & her hair

tangle up wonderminds in fear

for ruby is with bromide

& they know that we are here

& monsters from the sea

count their horns in disbelief

take bromide to the blue depths

leaving ruby free to speak

but wonderminds are insane
rubys lost the angles

& touches our naked brains instead

with cancer & sweet angels

photo Tech & Trees #4 from the Dagenham Archive

FOUND LIST 5

our neon vegas horizon

quiet degeneration
with a fork stuck in it

the nights cliche mask

backlit sepia compass

black mirror (not tv - art)

leather

beans

take soup out the freezer

bleed the rad

photo Scaffold Blob #8 from the Dagenham Archive

BRAIN REPORTING IN

thinking about hubris
& 

the things leather makes

dire straits in my ears & land

& i wonder if californias 

gone earthquake shopping yet 

for rubber japanese foundations

~

& an image flickers 

like a super 8 reel

of a cut-up speed freak

scrubbing his doorstep 

with vinegar from a dog bowl

& the same raggedy toothbrush

all day every methedrine day

his lover hides his despair

in the outline of sun-up surf

 

his hopes stashed on a chisel edge 

photo - Outline from the Dagenham Archive

DREAM FUDGE POP BOILERMAKER

& the barmaid

  she was queen 

  of the boilermaker parade

  she had killed a man

  with a poison round

  of atlanta fanta

  in pittsburg 

  in illinois

  in the aleutians 

& all across the usa

~

  she confessed her crime
  to a relative of mine
  never scared at the time
  that he would ever tell

& out of his tree

  he only told me

  you see -

  he drank too much wine

  deep in the dream time

& well 

  if he hadnt

  he couldve ruined 

  the sandmans dance & rhyme 

& anyway

  mercy the sandman be

photo - Texture Tree #7 from the Dagenham Archive

FOUND LIST 4

close & heavy

but wind is light

the blanket of early curtains

the arrival of bats

wings over black lawn

its feet

its animal heart

its shadow blimp

dishwasher ?

mend m4

name ALL the cats

photo Corrupted Shape #14 from the Dagenham Archive

DREAM FUDGE POP CRIMINAL DUO

 

she & he should be only friends
she said
to properly contain their criminal intent

&
she was catalogue happy
&
he was movie sad
&
their life was a badland teardrop


~


their
epilogue texts
thumbed from
prison yard bleacher
balloon-drop cellphones

regretted nothing & saw everything

both smuggling in drugs now
for 4G data
library privileges
&
a time-out oblivion nod

photo - Freedom Glares from the Dagenham Archive

FOUND LIST 3

 

space exploration (not me)

the glow ?

photo the birds
in the blue expanse powder

toy town & top hats

coffee run
coffee run

raw meat pie bomb

dawns silver blades

the orange is scarlet & white

short term silicone bath plug

mock normcore

photo Sky #112 from the Dagenham Archive

DELIRIUM TAPAS VOL 15

 

&

a 

joyland machine is waiting

in the night squad ward

if you luck out

before you cabbage

i hear it gives 

a sense of freedom

&

an epic kind of calm

~

well -

its ALL just 

one un-plug
away no ?

squirrel away

metaphor ammo

for before that long night is done

photo - Pot The Black from the Dagenham Archive

SITCOM EXPLORATION VOL 2

 

silver screen faces
tired or abandoned

play a grandparent
in an easy chair
for easy laughs

oscar or not

maybe they were close 

close enough to cry

method effort abandoned
with the oil crisis

in an easy chair
for easy laughs

photo Re-Up #2 from the Dagenham Archive

FOUND LIST 2

read the paperwork
&
prepare for call

5.30 pm

mind thurs

charging bank

coffee

brain

check notes

&

enjoy the process

granny chair

service camera

wood

photo Fuzztown Scaffold from the Dagenham Archive

DELIRIUM TAPAS VOL 14

 

previously
self-evident
recognised
absurdities
are fact now

internet killers 

ready their rented vans 

sparkies tape

on the b&q 

billhooks grip

~

theyre all somebodies heroes

in 

a 

crabapple echobubble fucknut sphere

martyrs to madness

singing the delusion blues

satellites indifferent

to the atlantic cables 

photo - The Lineup from the Dagenham Archive

PERFECT RIPPLES & REAL TERROR

i make perfect ripples

never seen

in the cannonballs splash


~

real terror 

is in the 

naked sunlight

we are tricked by its gold

the shadows are old hat for horror

come on
admit it -

them old shadow horrors 

are old friends

photo - Refuel in Texture from the Dagenham Archive

SITCOM EXPLORATION VOL1

sometimes sitcoms DO something

something to SUCK you in

like you live next door
live in the flat above

but your sofa couldnt be more wrong

~

masses need their opiates

i wouldnt stamp on that

& 

a few 
i want to live in 
too

photo Re-Up #1 from the Dagenham Archive