A PLACE FOR SIDEWAYS TRAINS OF THOUGHT
Listen to the poem here Below, next to our feet, the present just about to turn into the past. The plastic bottles, and the beer cans from last night. The cigarette butts impacted in between the cobble stones And next to them the newly sprouted seedlings thrusting upwards like minute berserkers insanely charging our enormous... Continue Reading →
(Listen to the poem here) The bottle collectors, the metal detectors, the boarding pass checks, the ID inspection. Past the scanners, the guards, through the frisker-bush hedges The trackers, the scopers, the seven-armed gropers. Then the dumbstunner pistols which make all your electronics electroffics for the duration of your flight. The tattoo inferencer, the Rorschach... Continue Reading →
When I was a small boy I had a book about science which ended with a few pages of illustrations of how life would be in the 21st Century. I am pretty sure that it told me that we would farm the sea. (I think there was some kind of marine combine harvester in action).... Continue Reading →