UNFILED 2022 FIELD REPORTAGE 4

i warn the binmen
that i am building up
to jettison much ballast

its to maintain trim
i tell them
you know how heavy
the dead are
&
the screaming detail of things

MONDAY MONDAY

we watch the 

binmen

me & the 

cat

him with suspicion 

& fading alarm

me with old-man 

relief

THO I UNDERSTAND RITUAL

its a wonderful world
sinful & selfless 

boring & beautiful 

we need binmen
utilities & art

shelter & tools

& tho i understand ritual

i dont see a need for kings

DOMESTIC POPLING 4, A PILL PACK POP

 

BINMEN MY BINMEN

steel shrieks in the sub dawn

hi vis trash fairies 
purge the plastic proof

of our consumer guilt

consumer guilt paused 

like smoke in a photo

of

a

parisian balcony night

~

sometimes i wave to them
if i am up & backlit
in the front window

but i am too old for that

& it dilutes the magic

like a trumpet

in the trees

~


i feel
a tangible absence / a lightness
tugging the empty bins back in

consumer guilt . . . gone ?

no - taken

to foreign beaches 

for brassic foraging 

a plastic bird in the hand

worth two in the toxic bush

UPDATE FAILED

 

monday & theres no binmen yet

it makes me feel strange
none of the clatter & shouts

i miss the clatter & shouts

theres plenty of work vans tho 

a big white camper that looks lost 

& an eight wheeler of toxic something

i cant tell what

with tethered hoses like outside innards

the strange duck opposite is lining up 

mobility aids in the street

for the rag & bone men again

more mobility aids ?

he did this all last week

an old man rests on our front wall

curved over like a crescent moon

hes going the wrong way for a paper

he was 8 stone at his RAF weigh in 1943

& hes 8 stone again

or so he says

thats ALL he says

hes dressed all over in beige

ready for another desert campaign

monday 

no binmen

only one bird 

no breeze to speak off

calling it

update failed

drawing the curtains

will check on it later

MADE IT THIS FAR

made it this far

soft office
electro-typer on

shower & coffee did good work
but its not enough

made it this far
soft sans office

listening to the binmens 

plastic rumble & iron wheeze

reality for breakfast 

in the come down fog

cat on windowsill overwatch
nude brunch in a plastic bag

DEPOSIT FORFEIT