Davey Dreamnation

Corrugated iron wall, Barellan Australia (2008)

DNRC090 | Mini-LP | 2020 | DELETED
In 2010 Davey Dreamnation stunned the music industry by releasing an EP’s worth of theme songs entitled, appropriately enough, Themes. Breaking with tradition, one decade later Davey released a mini-LP on his own record label, prompting further speculation that he had, at least, completely lost his bonkers. What [...]

B ceiling cat � b at eez wif meh � Iz r W00t Wiitmeh,
libaral az lusteh Naychar;
Not want till teh sun xclusd yu, do I xclusds yu;
Not want till teh watars refewez rutsl can haz yu, an teh gowayz
[...]

Empty shopfronts, Barellan Australia (2008)

An Ceiling Cat sayed, im in ur waterz makin a ceiling.
LOLCats Bible, Genesis 1:6

1.

O hai iz cebrayt meh, b in ur meh,
An wut I as00m yu shal as00m,
Fur iz atomm belons meh as srly belons yu. K.

Iz loef an nvyt meh sowl,
Iz leen an loef at meh eez obsarvn a [...]

I am an enigma to myself.
B. O’D.

noble wings I grow
when I take meh self out
of meh self
but I find that too hot to handle

for too long

so I take meh self into
meh self again [...]

re: the australeum (a secret society cf. ww leaves of grass

a love supreme in the court of love a library
book of love a doodle bug a statute of love

like some secret (liberation love democracy
man love & all aboard! the love ship demos

under the sign of libra it weighs at anchor
nestled in the leaves writing eva [...]

Texel, Noord Holland (Lente 2008)

As if the excitement of reaching 1000 posts wasn’t enough, now I’ve gone and got myself all shook up over what I calculate will soon by the 500th comment on this site (or the agglomeration of sites which is now [d/dn]). At a ratio of approximately 2:1, you’re obviously happy for me to crap on, [...]

the sun that he does well to shine & shines well …

the moon that she illuminates the lover’s skin

the stars that they remind us of all things past

the sky that it does well to rain on our heads

the planets that they give birth to angry gods

the earth that it spins on its axis [...]

… a cabinet was specially made. O’Dowd’s wife Evangeline
had an uncle, Jethro Fryer, a carpenter who took on this task.
SANDRA BURT

i hammer nails & saw wood (to make his
house of whitman his shadow cabinet

not a coffin so much as a grave of words
a grove within which they sit together

eva (my niece with her [...]

I believe Fame once intended to give birth to a child.
Some accident happened and I was the abortion.
B. O’D.

I look at what i wrote
& feel shame
rising like the flood

my knees are weak &
the lamp light’s glow
flatters my corny poetics

they’re simplistic
& i hate myself no that’s
going too far with

my hand between
my legs to keep [...]

… the cute and loving appreciation of my book and meh
by them in Australia has gone right to my heart.
W.W.

the cute and loving appreciation of my book and meh by
them in Australia has gone right to my heart bernard o

i wish to specifically send remembrances & love to you
& how is your mother bernard is [...]

I am not going to praise your poetry to you
B. O’D.

BUT! you make the leaves & the grasses
speak for themselves! great scald of demos
i am yours! master bending down to meh!
like a tree of man your mighty river flows
through days your poems like a dripping
tap & i a drum that tap must fill! restless
spirits stranded [...]