The summer of 1981 comes like a scene change and I’m lying on my back in the middle of a montage, flat out on the concrete listening to that tape. The hot wind coming off the river is laden with moisture that beads on my upper lip, and crawls from my armpits all the way [...]
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Goedemorgen, mijne dames en heren. Hoe gaat het met jullie? Alles gaat prima? Goed zo! Wat leuk! Dus … Waar zijn wij? Hoe heet je? Ik ben Davey Droomnatie maar aan de overkant van de wereld word ik ‘Davey Dreamnation’ genoemd. Wie is dit ‘Dreamnation’? Dat zullen wij spoedig te weten komen. Tot zo!
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… although by the time you read this post you’re probably already aware of its ‘appearance’, not just via the 28: Secret Cities index page but also through RSS feeds (which ‘leaked through’ even though the public website was in ‘maintenence’ mode), my own perhaps inadvertant leaks via my Facebook update, a Facebook Cordite group [...]
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Most of us make America mean the world,
or sometimes we put “Australia” in its place.
B. O’D.
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the drones of prole patrol the moon
that satellite of filth –
their lanterns mark the greasy poles
its dark side pepper (salt
with futile cries & lunar dews & sad
stories drones will tell of
extra-terrestrial rents & arbitrage by
mammon’s earthly (hags
o’er those captains of industry whose
gold we gleefully polish
in our dull second-class illusion we will
rise above the (swill
for life [...]
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i am not fazed by spurious notions
of what is good or what is bad
i just flip open that temporal wallet
& spend (it’s like getting laid
or tying one on & imagining X
could well be my imaginary friend
or else i simply [...]
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final oceanic junk channel-deepened
by temporal bo’sun of the universe
are you some castaway floating sea
kelp island where dawning abendland
in elysian fields of restfulness recon-
structs her deadly breeding grounds?
or are you one of the gods sun ra
maybe following the comet kohoutek?
are you in favour of daylight savings
bonsai maintenance massive oil wars
or just some mosquitoes flying through
the [...]
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could this crimson burka twisted o’er
the face of morgenland’s hag
augur destructions for the peroxide-
invader (or could it be a hoax?
….
what prophecies shimmer like mirages
in the mullah’s cryptograms
could they be harmonic lightning
(or just a prisoner’s final [...]
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1.
Iz in ur bodeh xtrc,
Teh rms ob dey iz luvs purr meh. Iz w00t an iz purr dey,
Dey not want! meh purr till iz go wif dey, respawnd dey,
An puur dey, an den WTF dey ful wif teh LOL ob teh sowl.
Iz not want dawted dat fose iz kurupt [...]
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A good friend asked me this question the other day, in reference to my (now officially longer than three months) stay here in the Netherlands. I began answering her question via email, however after a few paragraphs I realised that this information had to be made public. Speculation upon these and other matters then led [...]
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Evonne Goolagong tennis practice wall, Barellan Australia (2008)
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Tasmanian indie lit journal Famous Reporter has received a nice write-up/review in the pages of Wet Ink. Editor Ralph Wessman, who has been running the mag forever, has now certainly received at least one minute of his allotted fifteen in fame terms - let’s see what we can do about the other fourteen.
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I’ve been flat out digging through the online archives of the Chris de Burgh website, in particular the vast wealth of information contained within the Man On the Line (MOtL) section, wherein Chris personally responds to questions and queries from ‘fans’. One such fan asked:
“… any chance you’d release some of those haunting lyrics as [...]
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