Josephine Dickinson
Henry Miller in Constable country
Hell. A sulphur yellow square.
The fat secure bastards curse
indoors. No-one’s passed this snap-shaped
window in two thousand years.
Blocks and blocks of cosy semis,
miles and miles of cats and dogs,
canaries, budgies, hamsters, gerbils rot inside
this animal heat-belt, city suspender-belt.
Fullmore’s full of ideas about the cunts.
‘Mythos’ he calls it. I like it. The railway
underground, steaming and more and more invisible,
miles and miles of stacks of reserve false teeth...
In short, we’re going back to alchemy,
to symbols, entrails, metal poking rods.
We’ll get this gold without base piety.
No regrets. No bulls. No bears. And no brutality.
The fat secure bastards curse
indoors. No-one’s passed this snap-shaped
window in two thousand years.
Blocks and blocks of cosy semis,
miles and miles of cats and dogs,
canaries, budgies, hamsters, gerbils rot inside
this animal heat-belt, city suspender-belt.
Fullmore’s full of ideas about the cunts.
‘Mythos’ he calls it. I like it. The railway
underground, steaming and more and more invisible,
miles and miles of stacks of reserve false teeth...
In short, we’re going back to alchemy,
to symbols, entrails, metal poking rods.
We’ll get this gold without base piety.
No regrets. No bulls. No bears. And no brutality.
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