Listening to Labour of Love by Frente!
The second poem from the Heisenberg Suite
Too Good For Gary 26/08/2004
A cat in a pram, of a colour –
some technical patter,
known to catty people –
but a nice, slatey coloured cat,
with eyes to match.
The sum of all cats over history,
makes images of minds unswingable,
an oriental cat of many thoughts,
not this mangy feline in a pram
on the way to the vet.
I had a day off yesterday and as you can see I got some really deep poems written. The cat was actually in a cat box on pram wheels but if you can't use poetic licence when you are a poet then when can you?
The Jonathan Meades show (actually Abroad again in Britain) was excellent this week. He was talking about Cragside, that wonderful faux Wealden house in Northumberland with all the gadgets. Meades also visited the swing bridge in Newcastle where he examined the letters from children thanking the bridge engineer for showing them how its worked. I only just caught that one of them was from Adam Hart-Davis - aged 61 and another from Fred Dibnah - aged 66. The rest of the programme was of course wonderful. Some people may say that Jonathan Meades is an infuriating and pretentious presenter but he does see to take a back seat at appropriate moments to let the images carry the message. My wife says that Cragside seems to lack character but I argued that even if it wasn't quite as well proportioned as somewhere like Chatsworth, it was interesting in a very engineery way. As it is NT and we are now family members, a visit to the other side of the country looks likely in the next few years.
Well that's your lot for today. Were you maybe expecting a random Friday?
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