We are going to see rural england We are going to see rural England Which england, people say? Which England, ask the children? WHICH ENGLAND? The only england, The only english in England, Sitting behind a barbed-wire fence Under the floodlights, neon lights, Sodium lights, speaking english On the only...
No more words please,last orders at the bah,bah,bah Language has literally arrested faith between faiths our lifetimes of forgetting,to move forward between the position that makes hungry dogs bark or the lame seek solace on the crutchless stop of beggardom. Where are the archers and infantry,buccaneers, captains of tomorrow...
He passed on, the fifteenth of last month just before the Wolf Moon hit it's sell by date stretching a sigh along the Madrid fault line unnoticed. I'd have to check with my loyalty points but I'm pretty certain by the bar-code recognition; at the super-market it was. All the milk half sour...
'Idiot Compassion' - the term used to describe the single action or habitual pattern of interfering with or supporting other people's dramas without first determining whether lending your advice or energy is appropriate; not allowing others to move through their own experiences and become empowered. Idiot compassion is usually...
We were tidying up dead firework carcasses throwing them to the embers of old fires,for fun on the Sunday morning they were out marching with their banners and their bugles. We stood underneath a double-centuried Redwood tree; all those straggly bits of wired sparkler stumps the children had drawn...
Having dinner with the Dalai Lama in a fish & chip shop in Northern England. He said - ' I don't much give a shit about Tibet, but if it wrankles the Chinese, I laugh and laughter is good, mind if I have a gherkin with that?' One has...
The day the earth changed,subtly,Kevin was sitting in her garden taking in the natural beauty of astutely blossoming plants whilst listening to a requiem for a dream; an urgent gasp of strings consorting as the planets aligned. It was all so apparently normal and benign that he failed to...
If I have a judgement, valuation or prejudice about you, it's not the colour of your skin I regard. I listen to your voice, its cadence and intonation, the way the v o w e l s form around your thoughts. Wherever you come from, eh? Because that, that,...
The flat bleak eastern european plains of Lincolnshire near The Romany Museum at Cowbit (pronounced 'Cubbitt') hosting The Big Top. I am talking with the clown in a dirty high-viz vest about artistic integrity,narrative,selling England by the pound. It is not the time. Lights have to be fixed and...
I don't trust the air domestically because the workers are doled up in white suits and masks to remove the asbestos in the ongoing demolition and I tell myself I don't know which way the wind is blowing and all this reckoning on Shakespeare's quality of mercy has left...
