the celestial club
pops into existence
lie in a field and measure it with a ruler
every hour it grows
a rosy view of the future
< stifle a yawn >
those few snatched moments
watching the grass grow
the future ain't what it used to be
social isolation vacuum packed zero-point energy crunch snap rip fade
and then the male nipple
busy doing nothing . . .
Fifteen phrases, some adapted, plus the addition of four extra words to expand the title, served to make the above poem-construct and can be found on fifteen different pages in Nothing (266pp) if anyone with nothing better to do feels so inclined.
Nothing is edited by Jeremy Webb and published by New Scientist-Profile Books (ISBN 978-1846685187).
The photo is a distraction.
ReplyDeleteMmm. That might explain recent changes in the blog audience profile. France, China, Malaysia, USA all up.
ReplyDeleteUK and Australia down.
I don't know about this audience profile thingy and why should the photo distraction cause UK and Australia to go down? In the photo you look like you are on an examination couch. Maybe this is what you meant.
ReplyDeleteTo find the audience profile thingy for your blog click on the top right corner and go to your stats page. In left column you can choose all manner of things including graphs, pie charts, maps, and so on. Somewhere in this list is Audience and from there you can go to a list of countries viewing your blog in % terms. As you see I'm on a couch. A bed-setee thing it was. I'd just woken up and I wondered where I was.
ReplyDeleteI'm wearing my running cap. Somebody must have put the cap on my head when I was sleeping. I played the same trick on a friend who fell asleep on a bus. He suddenly woke up in a panic, shouting about a cat on his head. You could try it on P.
Rachel, Having slept on it I've decided you're right about the photo being a distraction. My thanks. I've taken it off.
ReplyDeleteThe poem is very good. I still have not tried this method of writing but will soon. I am sorry about the photo. I added some to my blog in sympathy.
ReplyDeleteRachel, I've reinstated 'Search This Blog' near top right corner of blog. If you enter Virginia Woolf you can find some poems I collaged from her works. Hope you enjoy them.
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