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Monday 18 March 2024
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Your English Panic Holiday White Patches Operation Broxit Smash Wall Decal (Red Middle), 2024
Anish Kapoor's work A Brexit, a Broxit, We All Fall Down commissioned for The Guardian in 2019 described the piece as ' the result of self-harm (...) This is a surrealist work, one that seeks to let the unconscious out. But instead of his own demons, lets out the shadows in the nation’s psyche: yours, mine and Jacob Rees-Mogg’s. For, like a black hole of melancholy, something about this bottomless pit is alluring. Part of you wants to fall in.'
Sunday 17 March 2024
The Urban Task Force (DRAFT)
One leg in annuities, solstices, sanctuaries, woes
breakthrough my heart is dumb brassic
in wiping off at the diadem floodlights
around dead fens being dead.
The underclass discussed
on mumsnet
Do we have one? Why?
Who or what is responsible?
When did it all go wrong?
a more vengeful revanchism remainder
of emptied pockets,
tough on, spitting yob burnished
tongue into a sharp relief
a 10-point code of conduct
the dictates by squeegee
winos ‘mole people’ footloose
brig adders wriggle out
in virid pilule seedbed
morsicatio buccarum sans reveries
& you work in the midnight purpling hue
that tips the stars to be lug imminent
a dream covered nothing foaming
its boiling common gentler sounding fingerdust
& the Russell Group firebrands
in spirited Rosewood Calf Leathers
kick up the earth, momentums return
this job pissed town is yours
in a sports bag drawn from gas
that leaks out peeling skins
cancel the remains
in a Quango fortified,
stock-brick-clad
ground-floor blast walls
scratching the edge forevermore &
The post-Good
the Era Two is more optimistic,
its spec boasting holes a ‘Transversal Space’,
made to see out of boathouse nomads
under marine primer ditch the keycard,,
ditch key fob,, ditch the key chain,,
pitted with illuminated water features
hear liquid patter of a fountain’s droplets
over the hum of a not-too-distant
business district winding down
plastic art planted in concrete
a twelve-foot anchor
in treacle-like gloss paint;
old parasite gates
micro segregation blood fielding
to Marina developments
the sugar pill, —the clerical sales,
construction workforce, mixed-use
drivers vandal-proof lights O
wrenched quiet to my scrying
door plate, post paralysis hands
the ringworm got me to
curse my outlook, rusted into
the Urban White paper Urban Renaissance
BioMed Centre identikit corporate detailing
the quoin metal black bile & actual slogans
around our heads into a buzzword
of tearing. ON. nothing Londinium
shilled in nights red wrapped tunic sky
12 stars over my eye
a technical ripstop Made in Italy Cocoon shaped &
landscrapes pulls away dead chainlink
‘I want to be the best.
I want to do my own thing.
I want to excel.
I want to go to the gym.
I want to study business law.
I want to see West End shows.
I want business sponsorship.’
Green grow’th the holly
So doth the ivy
Thursday 14 March 2024
Urban Renaissance (v.rough draft)
Green grow’th the holly
So doth the ivy
Though winter blasts blow na’er so high
Green grow’th the holly
Gay are the flowers
Hedgerows and ploughlands
Under the White paper the air blurs
the landscrapes pulls away dead chainlink,
boathouse nomads
vanish under variable sills
under marine primer
ditch the keycard,,
ditch the key fob,,
ditch the key chain,,
British moral life is installed on Teams,
Chat & videoconferencing, file storage
drawn from the same
gas as the peeling skins plea bitten
the underclass discussed on mumsnet
Do we have one? Why?
Who or what is responsible?
When did it all go wrong?
Answers on a postcard
the routed ends of hope
disowning old parasite gates
micro segregation Marina developments
to sugar the pill,
—the clerical, sales, construction workforce,
drivers and machine operators
I cannot live its black spot anymore,
cannot linger in its blank tinge
wharfages careering frontier spirited
Russell Group firebrands
in momentums return
to the land tradefloor with prat jaw
crocked on zero-tolerance braces,
Rosewood Calf Leathers
to kick me down this gangway
job pissed town is yours in a sports bag:
'We’re trying to move people
from a benefit dependency culture
to an enterprise culture'
slowly dies a light in Quango fortified,
stock-brick-clad ground-floor blast walls
scratching the edge forevermore &
The post-Good
Era Two is more optimistic, its spec
boasting holes made to see out of
‘I want to be the best. I want to do my own thing.
I want to excel. I want to go to the gym.
I want to study business law.
I want to see West End shows.
I want business sponsorship.’
Retreat on quoin metal
black bile around our heads
a buzzword
of tearing. ON. nothing
& actual slogans 12 acres & square in size
gruel city shilled nights in
glue of self,, red wrapped tunics skies
around our heads steel maiden
holding up a ring,
or an arch, or something
you go beyond taires of wasteland
at what scale, and of which nature?
pitted with illuminated water features
a fountain’s droplets
over the hum of a not-too-distant
business district winding down
plastic art planted in concrete
woven into and circle
a twelve-foot anchor
drenched in treacle-like gloss paint;
on one leg burrowed in
annuities, solstices, sanctuaries, woes
my heart is dumb brassic
Stupid working class Kent scum
wiping off at the diadem floodlights
around dead fens being dead
the midnight purpling hue
a more vengeful revanchism
remains emptied pockets,
tough on, a spitting yob burnished
tongue into sharp relief
its 10-point code of conduct struck
down & forbade
a group of beggars
& the dictates by squeegee
winos ‘mole people’
chew the fat
footloose brig adders
wriggle out in virid pilule