Self-preservation is always part of the picture
Self-preservation is always part of the picture
but a message has been sent & even the best
hotels have empty rooms. My float is dancing
on the breeze, Bob, he said. Are our ideas &
arguments really driving the bus? Once inside
the body the fly has to be removed surgically.
A tree has to be self-supporting to be a tree
but more extreme weather is on the way & it’s
time to make a sensible decision. He’s talking
the talk again, she said. Hockney on Hockney
& Picasso on Picasso. Swathed in fog & twilight,
these images are on the point of disappearing.
It could be a face in a magazine or it might be
a stranger passed on the stair. Either way, I’m
desperate to see a walrus, she said, but they
can be very hard to find. Advertising has always
known about the power of the image but this is
a new electoral map & not all diaries look the same.
Have you ever done a course in how to be cagey?
We’re good at managing low expectations but
when it all kicks off the power-hungry revel in the
fray. It’s one thing talking about equality but in a
week’s-time who knows where we will be? Weasels
Ripped My Flesh, or Burnt Weeny Sandwich?
At first, we allow ourselves to swim with the tide.
There’s no such thing as a few bad apples though
once upon a time we were all comfortably numb.
It’s The Great Gatsby all over again. I once had
an English teacher called Gadsby, she said, but
these prawns need their heads squeezing again.
Do we understand the structure of waves? I’ve read
about it in a book, he said, but I can’t remember a
thing. You don’t have to be rich to be a collector but
it probably helps & the story here is that there is no
story. Mornington Crescent, she said. Could a bumble-
bee replace Winston Churchill? What exactly is a tree?
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Steve Spence
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