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Tuesday, 7 July 2026

Against The Light of Others (Rough Draft) pp. 1-30




As the spring dries up, the fish live on land, wetting each other with their spit and froth. 

Zhuangzi, Book VI 



Selten habt ihr mich verstanden,

Selten auch verstand ich euch,

Nur wenn wir im Kot uns fanden, 

So verstanden wir uns gleich.

H. Heine 












































In the Oscar Niemeyer bar 

gimlet voice estrangement 

each vertical option ends 

in the circulation zone 

Radical political Art 

its exit-competition 

this game contains 

the world I have imagined falling

away misprisions silver tributes 

the meaning of this my friends 

remove themselves from the scene 

through voluntary exile 

could be considered 

a conspiracy of faith 

or half-deserted feelings again 

upper ranges then 

lower middle ranges could 

hear their echoing  

clad in small mosaics 

to be active in relation 

to a dead thing threat of exit 

as an instrument of voice 

is here replaced by its mirror image, 

the promise of re-entry




Decades in Rössing 

golden apples charter cities

follistatin gene therapy  

white Angel comes to the Virgin

a bipartisan holds my head

lips of desert ice 

interior oceans digits 

& the air is cut to a hyper-secret 

patchwork myostatins  

blood goes in special zones 

comes out normal politics

either Exit or Voice 

or creeping myrtle 















First image invulnerable building 

continuous interior like open office

environment effect associated 

with traditional livestock practices 

no axis to follow 

no more boundaries to cross 

just pale gazes 

over golden shadows 





















Sensitive sites can you imagine 

“Annunciation”“Where’s Daddy?” 

garbage targets in the mid-distance 

can you see them under black tulips 

error rooms in your speech 

echo of each & life judge 

looks like Fortnite 

wind ammo left range, 

etc. strain upon strain 

hostile units in fields burning 

images from the world's heart 

skylark in the sky 

Lemkin without light















Karl-Marx Grave labubu dolorem 

in my linear city entirely man made 

glass mirror ceiling covered in phrases 

giant artificial moons all decayed to zero 

consumes less virgin land now  

Abdul Rahim Al Huwaiti

dispensaries their opposition

echoing PIF breaking  

the bone of a dead person 

is equivalent to breaking it 

when the person is alive

a right to take falls in pale grief

mornings seizing aquellum clean

undetachable names

in the glacier rooms 

vault-tec fantasies 

pour into your sleep 

the city becomes suddenly 

beautiful again 








Moorgate rains ethanol fluid

turns mourning out of earth

staked out for scatological rites of all nations 

under corporate umbrellas, 

for fleshes of welded indices 

small pillboxes in ludic circles 

multiple deprivations on NCP London clay  

bellum mouth runs around 

the deregulated Square Mile 

Roman City boundaries 

Corporation 65,000 cubic metres 

of soil taken for Bronze hares 

CLC veneers cloudnines Carillon red dots  

the regeneration scheme 

& the slow curdle of its 

dying light to sing again a greater 

& emptier lease hypertrophied 

apartment blocks elected representatives, 

Common Councilmen,

Aldermen milk-paled, sallow Sheriffs

& Lords from the Medieval guilds

stuck behind your ear a jasmine flower

blows the profoundest carrion 

into the sand-drag your cities quarter 

its floor & traffic environmental zone 



Our happiness gamifying misery

in the art of not dying 

& victories we have won

painfully curled 

tight from the seeded culm 

the bean counter 

on the rooftop bar Highballs 

End Times Exhibition Talk 

& The Sadist Whips 

the Obviously Innocent

















One leg in annuities, 

solstices, sanctuaries, woes 

breakthrough my heart is dumb brassic

wiping off at the diadem floodlights 

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

answers on a postcard 



















You work sans reveries

in the midnight purpling hue 

tips stars to lug imminent

a 10-point code of conduct 

boiling the Urban White Paper

Urban Renaissance BioMed Centre 

identikit detailing quoin black metal bile 

actual slogans tearing around 

our head into buzzword wrenched 

quiet to scrying door plates

vandal-proof sugar pill vapour trails 

Marina developments

micro segregation blood fielding

treacle-like gloss paint plastic art 

planted in concrete business district 

winding down Era Two is more optimistic 

‘Transversal Space’ Quango fortified 

Post-Good stock brickclad ground blast walls 

scratching the edge forevermore, 

Russell Group firebrands in spirited 

Rosewood Calf Leathers kicks me down 

this gangway job pissed town 

it’s yours in a sports bag, 

you can have it outside Langham Place 

sans consentement in Corsham stone 

nuptials of God & God the Stone 

beneath volutes 

Justice 4 Fathers Spidermans 

half suspended with a daughter’s guitar

‘In the Name of The Father’ by Bono, 

Trafalgar Groves Victory Footprint

Link sculpture with panoramic viewfinder

In what kind of country is this?

class fatalised Bowellism sick rose 

winedrunk on a broadloom Pushkin floor 

there are Steinways to follow 

& seraphs on Brooke street

it's the colour between thawed gurgles 

that what really matters

& London is the centre 

of wicker fence panels 

its river territories broken  

under Blackfriars Bridge 

starry rushes chainfated

deposit slot rolled cobblestones 

glomfaced Automatic Hydraulic 

anti-terror bollards  

in the event of a loss of power

non-sector chaperones 

allowing the ingress of cool air 

with warm air flowing out 

through two tall vents 

forming wings that mirror each other 

public private bokes set to chrome 

it’s underlight schism 

hums laws balustrade 

Asset Management Limited 

the stone of the plaza turns

every living sign into a public-space guru 

Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton rooms  

screening Live Below The Line, 

& what will you do Alfie Deyes? 

with the cadres of flashbacks 

reliving the downside 

of the nostalgic austerity trend 

in multi-use pause areas, 

now this is Bang at Sportcity 

the Plateau, the Field, the Garden agenda  

gala of dystopian domes 

& Logan's Run of my wrecking desire

on the lips a Levelling Up, 

the economic pie everywhere 

& for everyone, not re-slicing it

Teesworks in Redcar 

& sell it these new clusters 

will be our Fourth Industrial Revolution 

Sunderland headwinds & the past

spread through Freeports,

Enterprise Zones Super-deductions

New Classical macroeconomics 

New Classical tiny glass beads

powered dreaming fields 

new satin finish logscales 

peerless white limestone 

of chlorine ducts, a flaming urn 

& no drinking water for this sabre of light,

filigree lightness is anodyne 

& as low as possible over the tidal Thames

for every child to thrive on decoy vent fed air

off seed cathedrals noon-marked 

monocoques hollowed to dusk 

development sequence scratched inside 

the wet paper brain Werkstatt 

swilling ‘ideas engine’ 

Stanhope PLC field of glass

Thomas Heatherwick windswept 

your mother’s bead expertise 

lifts the heart in Milton Keynes

seeing futuristic housing prototypes











Workplace Mediation Specialist 

hangs a heavy chain over my heart  

your team knows why 

& takes my eyes out 

explore a National Landlord Register  

at Construction Expo Five Angel Heads 

Comprise the biosphere 

& how to die in it? new County Deals 

devolved administrations, 

sitting on the laver of eclipsed arches 

all human malevolence 

is planned orange light porphyry stone 

it’s meaningless orange light 

porphyry stone & loggia curls 

quiet out composite social typology bonded 

& elevated again cleaned spurriers 

to mercer yoke no passage for foot 

in the shadow of the new Cathedral, 

the paying metronauts: 


‘I came here to swim in the highest pool in Europe & I’ll be back again tomorrow’ 


plugging austerities in the wren 

a midnight tabulation 

spitting concrete drills, controlled explosions,

the Corporation Cliff Richard

Operation Yew Tree & nobodies safe

under wedded nodes diminutions 

& you eat them in the Giant Needery,

Little Britain wards tested

gladi/haemophilia + binos 

evenings golden hour draped 

above winged griffin the shallowest 

end of Bullism & you face it






















Iain Catleugh Hutchinson 1 of 1 

your grotted mouth merchant smooth 

tears on Church Road, Battersea 

I look inside your imperial compound 

premises that leak & break 

into your children you wake 

washed clean into 14 company directives 

& ply the syringe into the new unborn 

portfolios marquees twisted avarice  

these words onto your face

stamped I don’t want 

that shit on our throats 

snakes & ladders or bullion ice 

I peeled from you, 

think you can drink forever

on some cordoned fence 

this is my night of glass 

my scarlet horsehair wig 

my starimpaled reprisal  

in white ash around 

your husk perimeter the unit

of horological excellence 

Quisling pig my pained impassioned plea 

its sidereal world alarm 

bangs a scythe into your back & 

the database value of you 

seeps from every pore you see

it will cost nothing, veto’d 

like my wildest wettest dream 

i flooded back into you 

through the smallest crevice 

self-triaged a disarmament of

ombudsman's you for me 

comes out dawning round your throat, 

the hallmarked dent 

of your hearts royal 

warrants choke


















You do forget the scotch-taped 

networks at dawn how many 

Fortune 500 CEOs make poetry 

out of kerosene Patriarcha 

after his tongue their Families

then Nations elegy did not begin,

choruses instead ID people

have to eat remember

the upskilling aneurysm of my heart 

its blended finance instruments 

inside sulphate of ammonia  

the phenol in Ozymandias 

lake filled all the same 

abolish hope let me go 

to my ethics of hell 

& name this city












Wingless aggregator self-decide 

on this side of the selenium pool, Zeitmaße

Laws glissando choking into 

Artisan bloods cruel corner 

of sad joy epiphany one voice 

ostinato-like at constant tempo 

strange beads like tears loud/fast breaking 

song plays as apology 

more frequently it is dark 

malicious where are my elegiac violins 

my key aspects, my Peace Practices 

my Temperance Training

wishful Mnemonics swipes your face 

the French Republican Calendar, 

months weeks restructured 

seasons days renamed












Praxis City without Light 

RFID echoing evening

disappeared over every 

horizon the wrong world 

it’s dark song each carotid

to stop dreaming soft wail 

Voice Residual Exit hallucinating 

everything rendered stretched 

allocative efficiency 

versus X-efficiency 

not by Right but by rite

















Katechon rosecolored military key 

life of trig point etheric skin

outside the neostate nootropic fated ip 

& dawn in silver arms dinner remarks 

its inner most & sweetest song 

other corpsicles are borne out 

inside freedoms Patchwork Exit

choir of blood boys cobalts your heart

in the air deck black waters blackest

face down senescence poetry 

doublewalled twilights

laminal flows spiraling eddies

take the escalator to the Q&A portion 

of the evening Human-Growth Hormone Pill 

silently gathers moonlike 

next to Radiance Feeling Terrene

Enter The Pool as dead clients fall out

enjoy what's left










Kayfabe through a ream of sunlight 

spathe of my heart Mustaqbal

don’t say that word to me 

syringed out PV-Wind-DG-Battery 

image classification, literature, 

waste collection in that order  

but leave me my love 

adapted to its technical principle 

& held in the advancement of  

a society on the Gulf of Aqaba 

cinema museum its roof official 

nitrate air beautiful vistas

alive in your mouth 

under dusking trees

flood the zone with shit

worldsick in ether

of its linear composition

a giant artificial moon

curls our chests streets paradised 

now black minutes








Sometimes I imagine a Swallow, 

Martin, Robin Red-Breast solemn 

anniversary song to welcome

the breach in my head 

but it’s your child body xeroxed instead 























Disposable pulp commodes 

moving through the world 

unmelted your speech 

look here is my real voice it is

with soft edges, glowing lids

every Angel is terrifying & yet

into small window bars 

the eternal humiliant 

music of an empty room 

where bad blood echoes

things fall out of your mouth 

& we laugh like tubes

orchestrated gantry stunts, 

the banners, the Santa outfits, 

the nooses, the desperate measures

& you say every angel is terrifying!












Bad from Good Xinhuanet

in sucralose rain

the Scheimpflug principle 

really existing faute de mieux

skynet & the final human

in the so-called kill chain

or loop except for ‘you’ 

an exception is made

suspended anodyne 

in zero sum game

looked to you suppose no audience

ultra private parts broke off 

immunised on my face 















In the morning hospital bed

small body bad blood 

under glass terrorpricked 

me awake when I least expected it

snow wiped needles 

& all expression from your face 

tiniest eyes titer white 

finger antibody cancelled 

crystal pipettes



















Imatinibs fall out your 

mouth sesamum in the ground  

ember hands in place

melodies transfer our bones 

nonpareil you speak 

dwindling hematomas 

pressed to corners 

the last photo metabolism  

magnetically sealed slips white 

incopads & you were crying 

in the centre a small song

lonely light ameliorates nerve gaggle 

unglück wet grim cycles 

even death was still turning 

in your eyes













How did we touch each other 

Jaguar Robot your neck 

& the gas its true breathe 

leaving us the last avatars 

clean & proper Beauty Editor, 

a Stylist, Fashion Photographer

into pastiche hell there is too much 

beauty left in this world




















Scried negative capabilities 

commissioning bodies, patrons

consultants colluded some dust  

breeding on free work 

fixed varnished the line inside 

what article of faith 

deprives today its perfect images 

tomorrow wearable RFID chips 

& never speak again

self-cancelling all the tulips 

& the closure of loves aerostats 

walls of Legacy Art Louis XV 

nickeled chassis think of a sound 

laser-sintered & now

between images our voices 

like the most removed political character 

now committed to memory