At the point I return to, always slightly less than I have written.  A4
sheet covered in passwords and login data.  A4 sheet with ALT data for
typing accented characters.  Disk Repository.  Public and Commercial
Services Union Diary.  Left speaker.  Eternal Sections, by Tom Raworth.
List of files to delete.  Copy of Object Permanence magazine, issue 4.
POST PAK.  Can of Coke.  Mug of water.  Pencilled lyrics to "I'm
Straight" by Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers.  Copy of Writers
Forum reprint of Extra Verse no. 7, 1966.  Block of Post-it notes.
Robert Wyatt CD, "Going Back a Bit".  Cassette of Jonathan Richman and
The Modern Lovers.  Bank of Scotland mini statement, zero pounds
available via keycard.  Copy of Word Score Utterance Choreography.
Abbreviated certificate of birth.  Tape of Tom Waits' Mule Variations.
Catalogue from Alan Halsey Books.  Copy of FOIL anthology.  Right
speaker.  Mouse.  Keyboard.

Empty ink cartridge.  Three unbound typescripts of Adjunct: an Undigest.
Pile of photocopies of prose by JH Prynne.  Body of PC.  1993 desk diary
used as address book.  Typescript of collaborative poems written with
Elizabeth James.  Scanner.  Printer.  Chest of drawers.  Voting papers
from Public and Commercial Services Union, unopened.  Stack of Domestic
Ambient Noise booklets.  Distribution block.  Draft of visual poem for
Jennifer Pike.  Box with copy of Glasgow North Yellow Pages, 1999/2000
on top.  Wan blue curtains.  Window sill supporting succulent plants of
the genera Orbea, Lobivia, Mammillaria, Opuntia, Conophytum, Rebutia,
Aloe, Ferocactus, Euphorbia, Yucca, Lithops, Astrophytum, Stenocactus,
Hatiora, Senecio, Sedum, and Crassula.  Low table supporting cactus
seedling flats.

>From the window, with the lights on at 1.30 am, only the top half of
flats in Maryhill Road and the side of Maryhill Community Central Halls
is visible, with streetlights and, in the one gap, passing cars.

Passive Infra-red Alarm which has not had its batteries replaced for six
years.  Shelf of least-read books.  Two shelves of CDs.  Shelf of
cassettes, computer spares and DIY equipment.  Almost empty shelf.
Shelf of never-to-be-read books.  Back issues of Object Permanence
magazine.

Armchair with old keyboard, books, records and wickerwork fruit-bowl.

Television and video combo with blue plastic jug and group of Sensitive
Plants (Mimosa pudica) on top.

Shorter OED, Oxford Dictionary of Etymology, collected Keats and
biography of Miles Davis on floor.

Obsolete PC on floor, next to letter from Ian Robinson and photocopied
drawings of Kurt Schwitters.

Gas fire, with ivy plant, pottery dog, hairbrush, hammer, screwdrivers
and pliers on top.

Low coffee table with copy of me generation by Peter Manson, Bar Zero by
Keston Sutherland and CD of Stimmung by Karlheinz Stockhausen.  Copy of
Open World magazine, issue two.

Cork board displaying postcards by Bob Cobbing, Miro, Malevitch, Gorky,
Warhol, Blake and of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, picture of Bob
Cobbing and Jennifer Pike, photocopy-treated by Cobbing, cut-out oil
decalcomania, one US dollar bill, conference name tag representing
company I no longer work for, proof copy on card of cover of Object
Permanence magazine, issue eight.  Oil painting of reclining figure.

Chest of drawers with stereo on top, top drawer sticking out supporting
case of CD of Soundtrack to the film Underground, by Goran Bregovic,
which is currently playing.

Armchair with black holdall, Waterstone's carrier bag and pile of
unsorted CDs.

Gas cooker.  Fridge topped with condiments.  Cupboard.  Microwave with
Caffetiere on top.  Cupboard.

Oil painting parodying Ingres' Mlle. Riviere.  Pot of Dulux paint
modified to read PURE BRILLIANT SHITE.

Clean sink and draining board.

Door.  Oil painting based on a pencil drawing of my sofa, turned
sideways into a Roualt clown.  August 2000 calendar.

Sofa supporting umbrella, Boxed set of Bongwater CDs, Books by Samuel
Beckett and Martin Corless-Smith, trousers, blocks of A4 paper, SAMS
Teach Yourself JavaScript 1.3 in 24 Hours, Roget's Thesaurus, tea towel,
Hippototescopo by Johan de Wit, vinyl copy of Bend Sinister by The Fall,
telephone.

Cork board displaying Photoshop collage "Three Screaming Alasdairs",
Postcard of Malevitch painting, Postcard of the band Faust, tickets for
The Fall, Stereolab, Mogwai, Tribute to William S. Burroughs, MOMA New
York, Eileen Agar exhbition, Willem de Kooning postcard, TV licence,
direct debit mandate,  High Llamas postcard, photocopy of picture of
Guillaume Apollinaire with a metal band around his head, six first class
stamps, bookmark from Piero Manzoni exhibition, cover image for
Networking by Lawrence Upton, scanned image of Epiphyllum stem section
showing sun damage.








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