Saturday 15 June 2013

Bus notes 58

        Face like that Lady 
        with an Ermine,
a daft black knot
of hair on top.
        There's rust stains
        and damp creep
        along the white balcony edges.
The tiered brick and dust wastes,
the cement flats going down
to the hidden canal
are nobody's.
        Today the muggy rain
        wants to be
        beneath
this failing skin,
this shit disguise.


6 comments:

  1. Fine--from the very beginning to the bitter end.

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  2. Was it that lady?
    :-)
    Muggy rain beneath failing skin. The rain needs a shelter today, shit disguise or not. Failing skin with muggy rain underneath, a very powerful image, WB. It sticks.

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  3. Thank you, Vassilis and Marie,

    That is one scary lady you found.

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  4. The tiered brick and dust wastes,
    the cement flats going down
    to the hidden canal
    are nobody's.

    The further diminution of an already worn and dwindled urban landscape down to the absolute minim reveals the hollowness of the hallowed concept Property. As soon as the skeletal substance of the world can no longer be made out beneath the rust and mould, it will at last belong to everybody. For a bit. Nothing more daft than the totality, unless it's the parts.

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  5. You can always catch the idiot glint of the totality in all those leftover parts.

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  6. "It is not your system or clear sight that mills
    Down small to the consequence a life requires;
    Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills".

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