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Hops on high wires apple trees. Parsley caroline, radio, solid, state-cow, chicken chow castle coal scuttle climbing kayak. Set fire to his tie. The river, brown and slow. Army, surplus, Dostoyevsky. Thinking in sunlight, Dead Grass Bowl. Motorway, night. Dade died, the fiddler farmer dark room developer. Charcoal flashlight Dartmoor granite. Doubled figures falling flying fighting laughing howling hand on paper. Marks on canvas. Roof light. Warehouse. Flung concerted wall-size chapel surface. Deserted dogs Atlantis bow. The river, cold, metal. Highway. Brick country lane vines entangled strangled giant paintings rotten carpet, stretcher-bearer sleeping. Life measured, out with coffee, out the window, backwards yellow Ford Capri.
Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate. A handmade wasteland.
Typesetter, red letter, lover, lonewolf, stuffed crow, drawing gridlines grant tracing photos back to soho, passion grief enlarger. Lost lives. Great composers: the zodiac and syquest of the violet sky that hides me from myself. Rhymes with shelf. Desperation animation, cheetah running, 235 West 46. Dry Martini basement horror, shower, hairdo, biker print. Life and litho, Serpentine. On a cold morning. Iron stone, pigeon crashing station sleepers, late night burgers cat-fight. From my bed the red word State, in the night and the wetbike morning. Bates motel, carpet, carpark, grey and basement, boardroom table car campaign. Night and night and orange flame fireside story push the buttons Chelsea College drama tellers. Rothschild can. Football screen. Goldwasser Shell. Amnesia.
A wall-full of clouds.
Pinstripe beachwear white mast ticking clockwork orange trailer, trash, metal breastplate chainsaw dancing garden torture. The ripped-up floor, the collage-face, the sky-bird nightmare slow dawn chorus. Smoke filled the air on the kingfisher lawn. Tail-lights streamed the late-night prison. Side-lamp. Roman, 43. Ropework, seagull cold grass sky. Spread sheet bed-sheet strangled vision, stripper, stalker, corporate banker. Sell-out buy-out scratching clause night-flight iceberg IBM. Shameless. Nameless. Let’s pretend. Diamond geyser stopcock. Theft bereft abandon shipment. Red deer hotel snooker ball. I am the river.
Tebay. Motherwell. Petercoulter. Road-kill night-fall Darwin firelight. Hushed by trees, the window onto the overgrown garden. Snow on the hills, slush-tyre sky guitar stone drums cold-fingered and Drumnadrochit. Aberlour. Cairngorm icegrass shelterstone bearing nowhere nightrain redweather skymirror darkgasburnerblue and soundofravenshaulingcoldair. Given unforgiven. Wet-gloved fingers on damp green bones. Skeleton hillside in killing fields with scattered small skulls under hawk wings calling. Capture cloud mist-lung fog-bound city mission oil-man. Raw charcoal. Earth owl burial studio-floor scattering stone photo fragments black and tattered white stain paper moulded bare-bulb black run phonecall. Mountains. In mountains. Grey fish city trail, written word and bearded smoker distant now but calling still. Demanding tribute, borrowed time on laid on thick the clean clear outline island stillness cormorant and man-priest. Cave dweller. Bird man. Sighted zoo-keeper and bell-ringer. Oil-rad stone warm painted drama. Small child outwith, open-witted timex journey.
Broken, break-peace mile-on traveller white cube tunnel River Thames. Bone stitcher, feather-struck. Heart of darkness clockwork photo process motion life place footwork finish sky-light building junction meaning railway sea-girt collage layer on layer on layer. M2. The written word. Spoken four. Clarity, complexity, synchronicity and sea air. Hunting and home. Sword fights with loaded weapons. Nightlight firesmoke homework studio, conjunct disjunct liminal fall. Ludwig Camberwell, narrative powder-monkey. The drawn word. Lives and lives and lies and curling edges, lost threads and water-stains. True and ism. You do not exist. Stories. Complicity and unnatural history. Dog-face newborn boat-burning ceremony. Torn genes and lair on lair, the crockery family disputation dinner-plate insult wounded cat. Delicat. Drawn love child fury. Battering down the door to care and not stumbling falling chaos in the garden. Wardrobes.
Bookcase guardrail treetop sunlight Beekman Brooklyn trainsmash, white and white and wall-written promise. Us and them, we now, they then, forever never heaven in a basketcase in point line and plane, all coming back to me and them in their flailing shouting carpet-stained Brazilian adventure. Open box, skin light and palm tree toucan tragic gunshot in the wide-high city spread seaward like Pandora. The street sleep suburban colour-coded dog-bark roaring negotiation beyond purpose without identity. Drawing life. Writing smells. Watching birds, birds in the wire, swallows in the pool blue shallow nothing, films and angry. Heating drums high tower traffic ink on skin in village hilltop helicity hell on the edge of the forest the long dark forest far from the island. That same synchronous thing. Island-City. The hill behind is the hill behind where the sea sounds is the city listening in red-white radio masthead written on the telepoles is the poem. O poema. The city marches the island floats a sea wanderer archeo-logic eyeless house and sea-cave street-life. Record the music. Leaves. Dancing hip-swing post-master lady grind faghag magwitchriverside Friday Night party. Ferry draws away, flies again above Funchal beyond Mindelo, Fernando do Noronha.
Requiem. Victoriana. Last resort. Sand-blasted glass-drawn Vauxhall curse hearse, rope-twisted cliff fall. The light seahorse whitemare and jellyfish hangplant cashman. Standing rucksack beach-wash tears and death, and death. 7a tidal sugar-plant Nepalese illness. Sunlight and peace. Crackedup warehouse corridor rooflight fire-escape creekmud peeling studios. Archeo-portrait artist logbook face-mould darling partisan chef. Chinese sky and private butcher long street night arch running-mate. Nine feet wrap-around pencil landscape dancing monkey swallow-dive. Elegant ladies twist their parasols. Paranoia podcast creeping shadows. Darkness. Argentina. Fireland. Faces written forecast desert wartime firefly trenchfoot wine. Unhand social climber non-com graphite inkling revolutionary beards. Driving poetry. Future dust. Garden drawing insurrection all the people multiplied. Insignificant glorious muchness, van man standing corner moment. Over. Dead and buried. Run sun chariot race mother-face cliff-top. Ordinary skies.
Everything. Simultaneous.