Monthly Archives: April 2011
you’re about to leave
You’re looking down a narrow street from a square. It’s a steep street, falling suddenly out of view & only reappearing half its length away. The housefronts are hung with signs & lamps. A dove flies from one window ledge … Continue reading
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an imaginary review (8)
In American Ruminant, self-replicating machines arrive from the stars. Implacability is their signature characteristic. Their mission: to cannibalise our planet for parts! Life as we know it–the life of well-fed science wonks & policy advisors & their resilient, generally likeable, … Continue reading
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the walls
A man, let’s call him D, is seen digging his way out through the wall of his cell. To help in this project D has only the flimsiest and least reliable tools: two dessert spoons (one stainless steel, one EPNS); … Continue reading
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the guest in room 444
K, who for some years has lived on the fourth floor rear corridor of the hotel’s retirement wing, attributes an unremitting depressive disorder to (a) birth at the outset of the “atomic age”, (b) secondary school food in 1957, (c) … Continue reading
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Filed under the Theory Cadre at the Ambiente Hotel
april so obviously the cruellest month
Observed in trees: Parrots. Magpies. Seven waxwings, one fat wood pigeon & that kind of finch-style thing with a lot of yellow & red. The Bicycle Pump Bird*. Blossom, white. A plastic bag, Waitrose. Various items observed on wires & … Continue reading
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pressure of knowing
Suffering the blunt force trauma of having reached the future, I recognise my grandmother at last. Born in a rural setting, 1900. Refused to answer the telephone all her life. Credited the Wright brothers but only as the perpetrators of … Continue reading
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