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it is not the responsibility of the artist to educate the audience
it is not the responsibility of the artist to educate the audience
and tell the attendant gnomes
it is time to knock off now.
- john heath-stubbs
This is not a standard furlong of measure,
have you listened
along the summer road
to the knock-kneed trumble of the carnival wagons ?
smalltime bigtop
have you heard
the imagined musics?
halfway home again
honey cum and finger my sidearm
frontwise.
halfway gone again
assemblage of echoes my mind extorts, shadowdancing
trance of word that contorts,
likewise precise as blackness
the streets corner to and fro
fro and to like bone-marrow
like flashflood and the napalm tongue
- and i'm a board
screwed to the floor
he said
fetch me coatails and hirsute of the dog,
we'll take our baptism in the bog.
have you heard the rumble & motortrill?
nose to nose
toe to toe
buzzing on the radio
you me and romeo
going down
going down
down by the rodeo.
i'm thinking, its high time we weirded things around .
you want meaning, Lovey?
you want meaning ?
take an axeblade to the mainline.
life is desire and feeling.
let the quicksilver bleed and the wild run free.
see things inside,
whitelight
born of the blackmarket
a firestorm wears us around
like Isadora
fine in a fine scarf about town.
what is the use of life?
don't ask me bub
said i aint one of them, Jack,
i just wears a similar skin.
and so she moves
cabaret of silk and sun
it drums
it hums and hums
jetset light and existence
into the western distance .
drifting fine and amber-kissed
in sable and smirking red
Dollface she smokes the smog
that hangs heavy in my head.
and never a vulgar
glazed and grazhny'd eye
shall fall uptown
or down down down
like slops upon thee
my most pulchritudinous
Hatshepsut of the lowlands,
of this i reason
reckon
of this i reason unreasonably.
Published 30th Aug 2014
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1st Sep 2014 9:26pm
1st Sep 2014 11:29pm
we'll take our baptism in the bog
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of course stars are of some interest and flamingos perhaps, did you know we went to the moon, but the interesting story is you sir, and your zealous calling to rearrange the word particles in such disparate desperate mad erudite passion plays, that is of course if the audience may be forgiven for educating the artist
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of course stars are of some interest and flamingos perhaps, did you know we went to the moon, but the interesting story is you sir, and your zealous calling to rearrange the word particles in such disparate desperate mad erudite passion plays, that is of course if the audience may be forgiven for educating the artist
