its a strange world
a hiccup life
smeared and weird
bricks and upvc and cars
block paving round the fruit trees
where we tried
to improve the ground
and too of course the endless plastic rain
step back take a time out
and
come
on
d
o
w
n
see we are beasts on the carpet
phones now where our claws were
see we are animals with tiles
insulated from the call of the wild
we still hear it . . .
its an itch
we talk about
in the
therapy room
the steel edge in our laughter
after dusk when murder
is
for
the good of the brood
or
only
the
dinner bell
from wikiality
the clinic receptions radio
sits on thick files
aerial at 45 degrees
catching
invisible
signals
from a commercial station
PAY FOR THE FRONT AND GET THE BACK DONE FREE
is sung over and over
in West Country farmers voice
to
sell
double glazing
and UPVC
PAY FOR THE FRONT AND GET THE BACK DONE FREE
theres shelves of paperbacks for sale
25p each
so
many
big black Twilights
PAY FOR THE FRONT AND GET THE BACK DONE FREE
i am early
i wait
i fidget
i can see the young girl
she used to be
in the receptionists tired eyes
she
announces
'i am not cut out for office work AT ALL'
PAY FOR THE FRONT AND GET THE BACK DONE FREE
its a weird bubble in time
caught
in amber
or
a
snow globe
dystopian and faded
on a pensioners sideboard
from criterion.com
