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Tigers at Layer Road 21:11 - Sep 23 with 48624 viewsSparkfilmsTV

In a strange twist of events l found myself in conversation with a young lady who had attended Layer Road for a match against Hull City in our first season in The Championship. The 5-1 encounter.

We were attending a promo evening for a band called The Datsuns in North London in 2008.

During the evening she explained that she had been present at a party that made the national news due to the tragic death of someone by the name of Mark Blanco.

The incident occurred in December 2006.

This incident will be shown on Channel 4 on Monday night at 22.00 in an hour long documentary and several people known to me have made contributions.

It may be of interest to some.

I am very much hoping that the police will reinvestigate the death of Mark Blanco as a result of what will be included in the content.

I know that what l was told by this young lady 15 years ago has been instrumental in the making of this documentary.
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Tigers at Layer Road on 12:26 - Feb 8 with 2559 viewsSparkfilmsTV

SQUAT

Yellow snow warning
Red missile approaching from the east
You've got your hands
Around the throat of the Priest

And through the mesh
You see the sky turn to orange
Better to run for cover
Than curl up and die

Gathering the gear
And your Tesco carrier bag
Fatal fix when you are near
Forever in the everclear

There's blood on the duvet
Where your hips swayed
Barefoot down the fire escape
To make your getaway
Past the pharmacy
In the schizoid dawn
Tower blocks screaming
In a siren storm

And now
Some kind of rendezvous
In a boarded up squat
At the back end of town
South of the underpass
Staring in a trance
Blowing smoke rings
With your back against the wall
Just like it always was
A place to call home
For twenty four hours
With your supply
Of bacon and brie sandwiches
And coffee flask

And despite your unquestionable bravado
You always discarded the crusts
Floating in the silence and solitude
Shielded by reinforced concrete and steel
Respite from the crush of burner phones
Free from filters and profiles
'Cause when it gets tough, all gets too much
You just go off grid

Despite your former glory
Always a sense of foreboding
A thrill seeker who would stop at nothing
A gun for hire awaiting command
Just a step away from the glittering prize
Saline drip
Salt in your eyes


Taken from LESBIAN ESPIONAGE

Copyright Sparkfilms

Thanks to those of you who are still following 😊😊🦮🦮
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Tigers at Layer Road on 07:10 - Feb 9 with 2465 viewsnoah4x4

Responding to “Thanks to those of you who are still following 😊😊🦮🦮….”

Some of us are curious Ray.

Is “Lesbian Espionage “a past album, a future album, or a collection of poetry and who is the artiste and author? Is it your original work?

I tried Google and it took me up some very odd paths……
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Tigers at Layer Road on 09:27 - Feb 9 with 2446 viewsSparkfilmsTV

Hello Phil,

'Lesbian Espionage' is a new word / image / sound project written by myself over the past few years.

Still not sure what form it may take as yet ( if any ).

Part of it has been produced using artificial intelligence - sound recordings with a 'voice over' from Ukraine.

There are other parts of the project that may be expanded ( Ghosts of Berlin ) where we have it translated into German and possibly extend that into something musical.

This thread began with the Mark Blanco incident in 2006 which put quite a few of us back in touch. Some of them asked what l was doing now and l posted a few pieces from LE on here. I was very pleasantly surprised that people were reading them.

It might be hard to believe for some ( writing dark vibes ) that there are occasional 'requests' as such.

I started writing this stuff in the mid nineties and there are eight books circling around the world now. Because of online and eBay etc the works get recycled and have found many different corners of the world.

It anyone, anywhere can take anything from the words - theatre, music, film etc ( and we have had all of those ) then it's worthwhile.

Admittedly, the content is unusual for a football forum but that is just how the thread panned out.

While l'm on here thanks to some 'Tigers' fans up there in the great city of Hull who have been following.
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Tigers at Layer Road on 08:45 - Feb 10 with 2394 viewsSparkfilmsTV

Back to the opening thread and a little cameo from the Hull City visit to Layer Road.

Dean Windass took a while to disembark the coach and by the time he presented himself at the player's gate in a reversed baseball cap he was denied access to the ground and directed to the away end turnstyle by the steward.

Dean insisted he was a player and asked for manager Phil Brown to come out and confirm.

True to form Phil Brown came out and viewing Windass in the company of the match day steward confirmed he didn't know the individual.

This was typical of Brown who is blessed with a great sense of humour and was a talented singer.

This went on for a few minutes but there was a happy ending and Dean Windass saw the funny side of it.

Dean Windass was born and bred in the great city of Hull and had a wonderful career.
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Tigers at Layer Road on 12:21 - Feb 10 with 2371 viewsSparkfilmsTV

While l focus on Hull City l particularly recall watching highlights of some of their matches on Anglia TV back in the 60's and early 70's.

I would like to draw attention to these incredible stats from the player's that l remember from a golden era of football

CHRIS CHILTON - Centre Forward, 415 games for Hull City with 193 goals!

KEN WAGSTAFF - Inside Forward, 378 games with 173 goals!

KEN HOUGHTON - Inside Forward, 264 games played with 79 goals scored!

That amounts to over 1,000 appearances for Hull City.

That kind of data could never be replicated in the modern game.

Additionally, that lovely old ground by the name of Boothferry Park had a record attendance of 55,000 for a match in 1949.

Great Club in a Great City!

Sending All Best Wishes from Colchester.

xxxxx
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Tigers at Layer Road on 19:08 - Feb 10 with 2338 viewsSparkfilmsTV

10th DIMENSION

Put
On
That
Slinky
Black
Dress
That
Clings
To
The
Contours
Of
Your
Incredible
Body

Put
On
Your
Diamond
Earrings
That
Reflect
Starlight
On
All
That
Come
Near
You

Put
On
The
High
Heels
You
Bought
In
Milan
Whose
Echoes
Are
Heard
By
God's
In
The
Heavens

Shake
Your
Hair
Let
It
F
A
L
L
On
Your
Shoulders
Making
You
Look
Lovelier
Than
Ever

Spray
On
The
Fragrance
That
Makes
You
White
Hot
And
Takes
You
Into
The
Tenth
Dimension

Give
Me
A
Drug
That
Numbs
The
Senses
For
I
Am
In
Danger
Of
Drowning
In
Your
Ocean

Taken from THE EROTIC CAFE

Written in Grand Avenue, Muswell Hill, London, England
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Tigers at Layer Road on 19:44 - Feb 10 with 2334 viewsSparkfilmsTV

HUSH

Debris rains down
On the South bound carriageway
Radar tracks as metal smacks
Into tarmac

Micro man has panic attack
As missiles approach
And windscreen cracks

Masts rush past
Blasting out emissions
While locals aghast
Hold placards and petitions

Through ultra violet skies
Jets fly out to sea
Dropping bombs on Sizewell B

And radio towers will bleep
Coded messages to sheep

Then the flowers
In an eerie silence

Saying goodbye
To those that they love

And the quietness
Is forever

Hush pretty baby


Taken from THE EROTIC CAFE

Written on the drive to BT at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk, UK in 1996


WALKING AT NIGHT

Stepping out
Into this land
Of shrink wrapped bottle blondes
Ringtones and logos
Where pillow talk is cheap
And it's nine below zero

I think of a time
When l longed for you to call
Only yesterday
I saw a man staring in the deep freeze
Punch drunk by cardboard meals for one

Tonight
Moonlit profiles rush by
In a flicker book of dreams
That never happen

Odd particles of consumer durables
Scattered in this doorway
Where we got burned in the flames
Now
Only silence remains

Alleyway lights on dimmers
Housewives scan ads for slimmers
And girls that taste of perfume
Gaze into IKEA mirrors

A pink loveheart
Crushed on the laminate
At Flat 14A

Taken from BLUEPRINT FOR LIFE

Written in Colchester, UK
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Tigers at Layer Road on 10:29 - Feb 11 with 2306 viewsSparkfilmsTV

UK LIVING

Fords thrashed
Astra's crashed
And suicide plights
Housewives bashed
Schoolgirls flashed
And animal rights
Yardies mashed
Throats gashed
And Nazi whites
Rooms trashed
Giro cashed
And love bites
Acid splashed
Mistress lashed
And ugly sites
This is UK living
Pick up a brochure today

Teens stare
At screen glare
Attackers tear underwear
Kids on E's
Divorcees
Vandalised trees
Backstreet sleaze
Speed kills
Sleeping pills
Nil Nils
And road drills
Access snags
For weekend Dad's
With carrier bags
Nomads
Schoolgirl sex pest
Undressed
Confessed
This is UK living

Non stop Brit Pop
Corner shops
And bus stops
Wife beaters
Happy Eaters
Sun seekers
Cheap heaters
Bovis Homes
Cellnet phones
Top Man clones
No-go zones
Head butts
At Pizza Hut
Shops shut
And Silk Cut
Freemasons
Dark locations
Wayne's and Jason's
Time wasters
Cheap brands
Wastelands
Tribute bands
Cheap scams
Cash Converters
Factory shirkers
Wife deserters
And loads of flirters
Shelf stackers
Chicken packers
CB hackers
Christmas crackers
This is UK living

Crap settees
Quick decrees
Legal fees
Rennie Rapeze
Highchairs
Push chairs
Despair and welfare
Take a leaflet

Soft porn
Hard porn
Popcorn
And overdrawn
And while l think about it
xxxx off the CSA!
Wife swappers
Bent coppers
Tennie boppers
And blow jobbers

( To be continued - taken from BLUEPRINT FOR LIFE, and written in June 1996 in Colchester ).
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Tigers at Layer Road on 11:13 - Feb 11 with 2294 viewsTheOldOakTree

That is clearly the work of a talented wordsmith…..

……but if it’s the script for an up-and-coming ‘Visit England’ commercial, I’ll be honest, it could do with some polishing.
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Tigers at Layer Road on 12:16 - Feb 11 with 2277 viewsSparkfilmsTV

UK LIVING continued


Faith healers
Straight tequilas
Class A dealers
And vice sqeelers
Human zoo
Neck tattoos
Spar shampoo
And Kung Fu
Benefit aid
Underpaid
Flagging trade
And another 200 layed off in Essex
This is UK Living

Liam Gallagher was Prime Minister
And Gazza was laying face down at Wembley
And Alison
YOU WERE THE MOST FANTASTIC WOMAN IN MY LIFETIME
I will never forget you
Tabloids
Steroids
Androids
And the unemployed
Tinsel trash
Pie and mash
Pebble dash
Culture clash
Empty souls
Digging holes
Bacon rolls
Barbie dolls
Junk mail
Cons on bail
Cons in jail
Clearance sales
Battered whore
On the floor
Holding score
Breaking law
Drunk drivers
Dare devil riders
Deep sea divers
And neck spiders
Avon Jane's
With ankle chains
In bowling lanes
Empty brains
Crow bars
Low cars
Loadsa jars
Under pars
Kids at raves
Microwaves
Low paid slaves
Super saves
Lover grips
Silicone tits
Curvey bits
And rips Ann Summers wear off while watching
Match of the Day at a 3 bed semi in South Woodham Ferrer's
This is near Chelmsford in Essex in case anyone was wondering
Love bites
Pub fights
Cheap tights
Building sites
CD ROMs
Video Comms
Protection from peeping toms
Lonely hearts
After dark
Look for tarts
And spare parts
Wash and go
Dosh and blow
Cosh and go
And run down the road like xxxx
Block pathing
Insider trading
Sun bathing
And parading yer flash BMW
Suicide blondes
Local cons
And another youth absconds with a handbag
On Southend sea front
This is UK Living
Circa June 1996
I know because l was there and l saw it


( To be continued - taken from BLUEPRINT FOR LIFE ).
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Tigers at Layer Road on 14:12 - Feb 11 with 2252 viewsSparkfilmsTV

UK LIVING continued

Tyres slashed
And windscreen smashed
Cindy Beals
Deals on wheels
Grants and Phils
Like Cathy's meals
Paper trips
Bags of chips
Lipseal lips
And hidden whips
Attitudes
Frozen food
Family feuds
Fashions crude
And many hair styles were crude too
Legal disputes
Money disputes
Homes uproot
Decree absolute
Pulp fiction
Hygena kitchens
Council petitions
Drug addiction
Bingo halls
Lottery balls
Artex walls and trinket stalls
Jailbait
On blind dates
Love fakes
Bring heartache
Sticks of rock
Aimless flocks
Concrete blocks
And digital clocks
Kids invade
Penny arcades
In designer shades
With silver blades

We go out onto the A12 early on Saturday morning in June 1996
Fox splattered
Litter scattered
Windscreens shattered
Panels battered
A Texas landscape
Ugly shapes
Planet of the apes
Scene of rapes
Pneumatic drills
Headache pills
Standstills
A treadmill
Stuck on tarmac
In a tailback
Waiting for
A rage attack
Power lines
Freak designs
And Frankenstein's
And so...
Eventually back to the delights of a market town
Sheep
More sheep
And pigs
Detector vans
Lager cans
Ultra violet tans
And one night stands
Tonight and every night
This is UK living
Big Mac's
And baseball caps
Unpaid tax
And suicide pacts
The ghosts of mods and rockers at funerals
Redundant dockers and beta blockers at weddings,
Funerals and anniversary parties in community halls
Concrete slabs
Donna kebabs
Smash 'n grabs
On mini cabs
But don't try it now 'cause the guys are better equipped these days
Graffiti walls
Hidden hauls
Screw balls in street brawls
This is UK living

Taken from BLUEPRINT FOR LIFE - to be continued.
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Tigers at Layer Road on 14:33 - Feb 11 with 2248 viewsSparkfilmsTV

UK LIVING continued

Leased daughters
Street walkers
Neat talkers
Beat stalkers
And so l get a local paper as l have half an hour to kill in Basildon
Driver stabbed in mini cab
Child grabbed from stepdad
Living rough
Up the duff
Hand cuffs
And class B stuff down the back of a settee
High heels
Slick deals
Quick meals
And kids steal
Comes second nature
French lessons
Half hour sessions
Private confessions
And strange obsessions
Burger bars
Stolen cars
Scrap yards and marked cards
Hidden syringe
Bottles of gin
Late night spins
Into Wheely bins
Getting your kicks UK living
Sex on the net
Snakes as pets
On line debts
And threats from local scum carrying shotguns
would shoot their own mums
Girl power
At the midnight hour
Climb towers
Give face showers
Schoolgirls in mini skirts
Place adverts
Lure perverts
Pose for photos
Seen in phone boxes and many other places
You would never expect

THIS IS UK LIVING JUNE 1996

I KNOW BECAUSE l WAS THERE

Many thanks to anyone who has trawled through this step back in time.

Written from experiencing the Essex landscape of Colchester, Southend and Basildon but eventually performed in Brighton, Cardiff, Newcastle, Birmingham and London.
[Post edited 11 Feb 14:37]
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Tigers at Layer Road on 20:32 - Feb 12 with 2183 viewsSparkfilmsTV

PSYCHEDELIC SILHOUETTE - WARNING / REFERENCE to CLASS A SUBSTANCE

Let's create live theatre
Here now
With no rehearsal
No practiced lines
No start times
And no end times
I will arrange the lighting
Assorted candles
And a mini strobe
Blowing coloured shadows
Into the bathroom
I am the audience
You, a born entertainer
A psychedelic silhouette
Smoking crack in the bath
We discover our birthdays
Are two days apart
Tenth and twelfth of March
What else could one expect?
Coming together like this

This is 'live' theatre
PSYCHEDELIC SILHOUETTE


Taken from DIRTY BLONDE AT THE CASH MACHINE

By a fortunate coincidence DIRTY BLONDE by Courtney Love was released at virtually the same time in 2006.
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Tigers at Layer Road on 20:54 - Feb 12 with 2179 viewsSparkfilmsTV

SAVING A LIFE

Always thought
That l was born to save a life
Maybe yours?

Some guardian angel
Appearing out of the mist
By the Audi dealership
In your darkest moment

A luminescent being
With the third eye master plan
Reading like a script
From a television play

You will do all in your power to resist
But l....l will not be deterred
Not this time

You see,
Something happened while you slept
I watched you for four hours
All those little movements
Hand clenched
Unclenched
Some indecipherable incantation at 3.35am
Ten minutes later
You turned towards the wardrobe
Momentarily opened your eyes
And kissed me softly on the cheek
In your half sleep
Our first physical contact
And maybe the only physical contact
That would occur
While l was doing everything l could
To save your life

Taken from DIRTY BLONDE AT THE CASH MACHINE

Images shot on location in Luton, UK
Photography - Stuart Nicholls
Model ( street cast in Poland Street, London ) - Julie Patterson

We shot some of this behind Luton Town F.C.
Sleeve notes by Dot Allison.
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Tigers at Layer Road on 21:11 - Feb 12 with 2173 viewsSparkfilmsTV

MOONCAR RADIO

Heavy mist star glow
Mooncar radio bleeds in the shadows
Blue stripe carrier bag
Twisting in the break light
Heel from size four shoe
Crying in the hedgerow
The transfixed gaze of officers
As passing phantoms
Carry cans through the suburban Netherland
Silent screams from deep within
Muted mercy cries at the bottle bank
Destroying evidence
Of second generation malfunction
Think blank
Mooncar radio bleeds in the shadows
Heavy mist star glow
On every roundabout
From here to eternity
Revolving emergency
Graffiti ghost breakdance in the subway
And half the population
Will suffer in silence tonight
And every night

Taken from DIRTY BLONDE AT THE CASH MACHINE

The subject matter just came from driving around Greenstead roundabout in Colchester. The Tesco carrier bag was blowing around and there was a police car and ambulance circumnavigating the roundabout. Anyone who knows this area will be aware of the subway.
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Tigers at Layer Road on 21:20 - Feb 12 with 2172 viewsSparkfilmsTV

KAMIKAZE WAiTRESS

Full bleed soft shadow
Drip feed ice psycho
Your hour of need
It could have come at any time
Try 4.35am
Then again
Four hours later
'It's Katie, I really need to speak to you urgently....'

Your power
Taking me back
To the 24 hour service station
It's Katie
In all your glory
Your every move recorded on CCTV
And by me
I ended up with four of your plastic lighters
Your soft Oxfordshire accent running through me
All your messages
Recorded and digitised
I listen to them
Through the night
Sitting here
Waiting for you to call

Taken from DIRTY BLONDE AT THE CASH MACHINE
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Tigers at Layer Road on 21:45 - Feb 12 with 2171 viewsSparkfilmsTV

HIGHBURY BEDSIT

Light the tip of an incense stick

Gently blow the flame out

And place the stick in a holder

Keep it away from curtains

And other soft furnishings

Use it as a natural air-freshener

Or simply enjoy it for the fragrance

Light eight vanilla and clove candles

And place them around the room

Do not put on the TV or any sensitive surface

Do not move when alight

Or when the wax is still liquid

Turn out all other lights

Turn on the dry ice machine

Turn on the smoke machine

Play 'We're only science' by Dot Allison

At maximum volume

Breathe in deeply

Count slowly to ten

Breathe in deeply again

You will find yourself rising slowly

From the floor

Do not be alarmed

You will be transported out through the sash window

Even though this window may be closed

You will rise to a level of approximately 100 feet above the ground

You will feel safe and warm

You will have the ability to see and move through buildings

Make any wish ...


Taken from DIRTY BLONDE AT THE CASH MACHINE

If anyone has followed this thread from the beginning you should be joining up some of the connecting points by now.

Message to Banksy - You like Colchester then. 😊😊😊
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Tigers at Layer Road on 19:57 - Feb 13 with 2114 viewsSparkfilmsTV

FRIDGE DOOR

Opening shot
Hand opening fridge door
Pan into yoghurt
Sound
Stiletto on ceramic
Silver switch clicks
A flick of blonde hair
Reminiscent
Of the first move
Captured
Between Kentish Town
And Tufnell Park
The same hand
No ring
Clasping
Veins slightly protruding
Face obscured
But a flick of blonde hair at Archway
Skin
Eyes
Texture
Then for a fleeting moment
Symmetry
Power
Engineered by Gods
Delivered by Angels
Highgate
Eyes fixed downwards
The thought of that hand
Turning the pages of a book
Stirring Coffee mate
At midnight
Gesturing at dinner parties
In East Finchley
Its warmth at night
Its coldness in December
In black satin
At The Adelphi

Taken from DIRTY BLONDE AT THE CASH MACHINE
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Tigers at Layer Road on 20:23 - Feb 13 with 2112 viewsSparkfilmsTV

DIRTY BLONDE AT THE CASH MACHINE


Your dirty blonde hair
You're everywhere
I'm here
Seemingly nowhere
Tracing your moves
On some satellite tracking system
Following all these thin yellow lines
Running across the screens
Telling me that you spent
12 minutes at an address
Somewhere near the Tesco's roundabout
Doesn't tell me the street number
But l can guess

Your dirty blonde hair
You're everywhere
Standing in the kitchen
In your unmatching underwear
Throwing paper darts
At the washing machine
Last night's vodka and nicotine
A live fuse in the slipstream
And l'm here
But only just
Occupying a space near the tumble dryer
In your line of fire
Somewhat unnoticed
A living ghost
That just walked on to your private set
Trying to get close

It's been days now
Since I've been trailing in your shadows
Taking you
To vandalised payphones
In the dead of night
Listening to your anguished pleas
Watching your moves in rear view mirrors
Your dirty blonde hair
Getting everywhere
On the car seat with your takeaway Nescafé
Your compulsive addictive state
Putting me in a compulsive addictive state
Realising that somehow and against all the odds
You were capable of putting her
Out of my mind
The irony being
That you were rescuing me from my demons
While l may never be able
To rescue you from yours
Despite it all
In my mind
Rehearsing killer lines
Your heart beating next to mine
For longer than 40 minutes at a time

All your possessions
And all your worldly goods
That seem to amount to nothing more
Than 2 carrier bags
And that stuff that you
Carry around in your pockets
Tainted with the scent of freedom
Bring it here
Your dirty blonde hair
Your white skirt
And your Next shirt with the ripped collar
That transcends fashion
Don't go back to that run down b&b
Not now
Not ever

Taken from DIRTY BLONDE AT THE CASH MACHINE
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Tigers at Layer Road on 20:42 - Feb 13 with 2111 viewsSparkfilmsTV

CHASER ( dedicated to the guys in MASSIVE ATTACK ).

There's a chaser out on the highway
Youths are spitting cola on windscreens
Near the interchange
Where
She's walking in the rain
Kicking her heels
Someone out there
Will be closing a deal before midnight

Someone saw a fadeout
And cut a face out of a shadow
Pasted it in a phone booth
At the airport in Glasgow
Where they're planning the next move
Through all the red lights
South
Of
The
City
In
A
Warehouse
Lit
With
40
Strobes

Crawling
Across
The
Floor
Up
The
Staircase
To
The
Mezzanine

Stripped
Bare
The
Glare
Erasing
The
Stare
Of
The
Private
Audience

There's a chaser out on the highway
Someone ending it all on the hard shoulder
Kids pissing off bridges
And dropping concrete blocks on the track

That's the crack


Taken from DIRTY BLONDE AT THE CASH MACHINE

Written in Novotel Hotel, Glasgow
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Tigers at Layer Road on 14:06 - Feb 14 with 2064 viewsSparkfilmsTV

SHADOW PLAY

Your psyche
Wielding its way
Up the staircase
Onto the landing
Bathes in the sun rays
Diffuses scent
Splays ten years of memory
In the microbe dust atmosphere

Some lurid pose
Virgin bitch
Whore goddess
In swirling musk

Biker speeds off in shadow world
Blasting rock leaking fuel
The kebab shop angel calls
Six digit cab numbers
Debris decorates the day
The headset still playing
On the spot where he lay
Talk to me baby
Rise up and walk away
Think of us in that shabby bedsit
Getting high on cola and love
Fish and chips off newspapers
The run down pubs
A utopian heaven
If only....

If only we could tell them

The ambulance arrived
The skies all florescent
The earth pulsating
Lifting us above the hollow
Mourners pouring out their grief
From the tower of St. Stephens
The colours of the flowers beneath
Lighting up this drab town

I'm coming round again
To see you in all your glory
In the cracked mirror
By the sash window
Above the kerb and the gutter
Where it all happens
The dog ends and the beer cans
The slaughter of the innocent
Want you to be the one
That l remember in ten thousand years
Clear as yesterday
Clear as now
Your head jerking backwards
Honey milk fusion
Moving dynamics
Shadow play illusion

Heard about twenty five layers of paint on some car
Saw the loose change in your coffee jar
Know where l would rather be

Press yourself against me in this film
In the cut the skies are all florescent
Push yourself against me in this dream
The beginning and the end
And everything in between


Taken from BLUEPRINT FOR LIFE
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Tigers at Layer Road on 14:40 - Feb 14 with 2060 viewsSparkfilmsTV

TALKING TO YOU

Begged, borrowed and stolen
I can see that now
It's not just something that people say
Not in your case anyway

I ask you where you spent Christmas Day
'Peterborough Prison'
So you got done for shop lifting clothes
In a win win situation
You either got to keep the clothes or got caught
And did three weeks
You got caught - your preferred option
With your own private room in a quiet corridor
With a brand new television
'Not much different from a hotel really
The main difference is that it is free
And all the meals are provided'

I can see that you've come so far
And that there is no stigma involved
And this is what l learn during our conversations
Allowing you to smoke your Rollie's
Blowing smoke rings
In this strictly non smoking environment
And you look me in the eye
And every thing about you is truth
Despite its origins

Could we create anything from this?
Something outside this project?
Strange how things have progressed
All the taped interviews
Trying to explain things to the police
I keep the things they gave me
Little white plastic tubes
And pieces of paper
Dealing with all their questioning
Their psyche, their prying

And tonight it's the blue lights again
But they just don't seem to get it do they?
We explain
They stand there with glazed expressions
It's all in reverse
Them, us, this
Turning itself upside down
The one with the clearest head by a mile is you
Because you know what fear is
Facing it all and dealing with everything
That is thrown at you with consummate ease
Everything has become so mad
That it is even becoming normal to me
We've got the Big Story

A year of this now and l can't begin to remember it all
Even with an 80,000 word journal to help me
Three books of poetry and a film all but finished
It moved so fast and we have come full circle
Several times over

And l still have the killer stuff to write
About the body parts in the freezer
I've been saving that for the ending
When maybe there will be no ending

Just a new beginning


Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6
[Post edited 14 Feb 14:42]
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RUST

You're in this deep
Even deeper than before
If that was ever possible
Keeper of the stash
A carrier bag of cash
That you use as a pillow
An expensive one at £16,000
The booty keeper
Night creeper
Light sleeper
Down here in the gravel
The dust and the rust
The walls are seeping
And you're not sleeping like you used to
And l'm watching you imagining the pictures that you see
And the voices that you hear
As you spiral downwards
Falling from an airplane
Breaking into pieces
Drowning in a whirlpool
You shake, and waking your eyes open
But you don't see me
Just an interrogators dazzle
Some fatalistic tailspin
A feather in a headwind
Crying in a hedgerow
Dying on death row
Then suddenly you leap
Your nails claw down the wall
You're not dreaming anymore
This is far worse

Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6
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REACTOR

Flash of eyelash
Pulled up your coat collar and your hair was blowing back
Reactor
Street corner supernova
Time was when l became obsessive about someone like you
Coming through into the sanctuary of this inner space
Rapacious
Thriller
Killer in lace
Hint
Skin sin
Heady scene in the edited dream
Of 'The curse of the kiss'

Come a little closer said the jailer
Watch the trailer while l slowly undress you
You won't notice a thing
Stay fanatical
There's a picture in the supplement
All glossy
Sultry and seductive
It could easily be you
What do you think?
Blink
You're a death wish waiting in the shadows
Tongue
'The movable muscular structure in the mouth -
It is used for tasting'
And speaking?
Ravenous in the hallway

Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6
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ZERO SECOND WARNING SYSTEM

By the third line
You'd opened up a chapter in someone else's life
Falling in slow motion from a motorway bridge
A starfish x-rayed against the ultra violets
Ricochets in the tyre tracks
Landing by a rose thorn near the roadside
Bleeding your beautiful blood in the gaze of Valentino

A week earlier you stood alone defiant
Your eyes so full of fire, so full of anger
'We want trees not tarmac'
A one person protest in a field at 10am
Joan of Arc on horseback in the city
Crushing all the cartons screaming revolution

I saw the Cathedral gleaming in the distance
My heart pounding drowning out the traffic
You were putting on you make up
In the splendent song of morning
Lowered my guard and revealed my soul
To window shoppers and post grads
Cascading around you, the place that l found you
All those months ago, when we went back to the bedsit
Saw your face in the fabric of everything

And now at this table l lay out the bank notes
Damp and camomile scented
Distant voices running through me merging together
Makes me feel
Like l don't know how l feel


Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6

Written in Lincoln, UK


Illustrated by students from The University of Lincoln and Nottingham Trent University.
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