Song
if I’d known it would take this long
I’d have gone by another way
if there is one. I expect not.
So, tell me: What’s with this country?
Don’t they want people to travel?
Don’t answer that. I know.
One knows…
One understands…
one lives…
one wanks…
One thinks one is so all alone
and ever more shall be so.
One.
One is indivisibly a one.
No modern math for Britain, mate.
I’m sorry: One.
Juan? No: One.
No one. No one at all. A Brit.
One and One and One and One,
filling your little backward yard.
This wouldn’t do in New South Wales.
Having to stand and wait like beasts.
Lacking all power in your town.
No control but your self-control
Having to live up your own arse
cos you haven’t got the housing.
Why don’t you complain, you oxen?
I’ll permit myself one metaphor.
Harness yourselves to change your world!
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"The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode
http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html
["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of what it
is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode]
‘a song and a film’ by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers Forum
ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6 A5 84 pages. 2009. £6.00
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‘snap shots and video’ by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum
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Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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