So Modern Everything Seems Pointless
(for Scott Thurston)
Hum of air conditioning: a kind of comfort as the hour
grinds on with lights low and the click of computers
Feel the need for Melatonin, to paper over the cracks,
lead into the cauldron of sleep where animals roam
safely through streets, cars give way and people
show respect! images high of failing aeroplanes and
evacuation procedures from the 72nd floor of
buildings.
Close visage and open invis window, a DIFFERENT
view on the world! tread carefully on the streets of the
Village, especially in the month of January. Go to Zinc,
to see the cats through the smoke.
Please be careful this Ritazza beverage is extremely hot.
how that would bring cheer down the icy blast of Bleecker Street!
Sleep deprivation and the queue for fast food at The Peacocks
Centre do not hang well together. Cavernous space with lifts,
escalators and stairs. Shops seem secondary, somehow.
Once Public Space, now
‘The public are invited into the shopping
Centre by courtesy of the management’
security guards follow people badly, while a minimum wage
cleaner polishes a glass balcony, all day.
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- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The