Keep It Regular
does the aim? does the execution? are you quotation mark second hand thoughts in shadow? or are you a throat stripped raw stage fright presence speaking? you’re trying to live in the books and outside them finding a way to write a…
i am a picture you are a photo they are a film what is your excitement level? is this candy-fuelled? are you a broken teeth dream? he braces himself i used to play with matches i used to play snap gin rummy…
Keeping anything regular has been a little rough for me in the last few years. Things have changed a lot jobwise, whether it be all those months working from home, or the more recent end of my main gig. I have been…
distanced faces i’m an electronic island how do i brand myself? make the beacon compelling? strand people on the rocks? becoming a hook rolling out a line trying to bait with something other than myself so many floating dreams trying to codify…
He is Haiku Division – rattling out fletchette words on the frontlines; mortar rounds. He can see the Long Prose Division a few hundred feet away and he is wondering what they are targetting. Poets are dangerous now. Slammed into the wall…
the things you live with the heart you give with the art you create despite hate build a tidal wave to drown the flames and to sink the names of those who play the kind of games that pick apart and destroy…
Work quicker. Work harder. Work faster. Deadlines and headlines are how a lot of people manage their work – they are basically targets and goals that you have to hit. Painting a whole neighbourhood would be a main target, but if you…
you’ve never arrived and your illusion hasn’t shattered because it hasn’t mattered to anyone to take a hammer to it you are in shadow hidden from spotlights a whisper in a gallery but you lie to yourself piece together a life from…
I periodically read Transmetropolitan, and I periodically read The Invisibles. Why? Apart from their brilliance, and their capturing of a cultural zeitgeist, they both represent a viewpoint I am on board with, and something of an intellectual palate cleanse. They are both texts that more than…
His uncle had suffered from Terminal since it was released into the borg community ten years back. They called the symptoms stutter and flare – the borg’s attention hooking into a feedback loop that might deliver a period of clarity. Blue eyes…