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Music - Permanent - Joy Division

Not helpful for a "hello clouds - hello sky" type of poem .. or "peom" while we are making Molesworth references. "Chiz" says Nigel.


I am afraid I have been away writing more poetry though I started before the music was Joy Division.

In the best tradition of "teaser" releases, here is one part of what I have been working at.

2. The Elastic Band 7/10/2003

A wife somewhere down the line,
became a revolutionary scholar and
played hooky without a net.
She wore an elastic band
to keep her pretty hair in check,
to tell of her devotion
to the Diesel world of flags
and militants.
This brick building brought crowds
from their firesides and
proof against the weather
to the rainy streets and cold cities.
It broke them,
made them smaller,
shrunk in their own worlds,
eccentrics, spun off centre
by the dark and lack of mothers.

One poem down the line
and into blue reality,
the world revolves around
irrelevant men and popsicle.
The words of raving strangers
make us ache like refugees
for counsel of their homeland.

This of course lets you know that there is at least one other part. The tragedy is that there are actually another four parts with a view to there being at least seven all together.

Exodus!