Category: Art
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The things we make
I am breathless I cannot breathe I am legless without a drop to drink I am armless although I have wielded arms I am heartless I am heartless I am heartless But still sad I was so close to absolute power Then a new rival arrived on…
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The Age of Idleness
We stand idle in the heat Crammed onto a platform waiting for a train delayed by 10 minutes The platform is overcrowded move down the platform, move down the platform the announcer keeps saying To where I wonder I have spent the last 8 hours idly moving data around a spreadsheet something a computer could…
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Forgotten Millpond
“The sea, calm as a millpond, without a ripple, was breathing slowly but deeply” Georges Simenon – The Mahe Circle, 1946 We don’t write well anymore because we don’t have the time to absorb our surroundings We must catch the train plan the weekend work 8 hours a day plot an escape cook…
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Fluid writing
Lets just imagine I want to create a new style of writing one without the old syntax and apostrophes but rather to just have a stream of words and then possibly a directional indicator to tell people when I have started a new or similar stream and then another when I have gone back to…
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Jim Sullivan –“UFO”
In 1969 the brilliant and enigmatic singer songwriter Jim Sullivan released what may be a prophetic album UFO. In 2010 a reissue of UFO was released by Light in the Attic an American Reissue label that specializes in obscure albums. The boffins at Light in the Attic spent some time trying to locate the original…
