You can come and stand inline with me at the Tongan high commission
They were too formal. Bye
Do it all. Text him twice. Flirty? Shamelessly
You should, his nose isn’t even that pointy
They are all hugging and crying. It’s making me feel sick
The point of the story is that its very unremarkable and all the exciting stuff happened to other people. Lots of nearlies. Lots of almosts
I’m walking Soho like a lovesick pigeon. Heart broken
Can I be you for tonight?
That was a joke. Keep up
I felt so sick last night with paper all over my floor. I have to learn all this paper. I just want everyone to enjoy chips and cigarettes. He says that is idealising stupidity
Lying in London reading about gay school boys and that type of thing
There are some absolute fuckers singing tuneless Hindi songs
Look what we’ve got ourselves into
This is not free form poetry or monologue. It's a collection of messages I have received over the last seven years. They are anonymous and abstracted - just a collection of words in time. They remind me of growing and change.
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Monday, 28 September 2009
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The Charles Bridge in an hour?
He has bingo fever
Sorry for not being at your beck and call for once, I was doing one of those annoying things in my life that stops me staring at my phone waiting for you
This place is a hole. At least he scored. I fear we may have lost him forever
Your brother just sent me a kiss.
The doors of perception are open. I quote ‘lets be hedonistic, flirtatious…’. I guarantee solidarity if you’re up for it
I’m no longer your midnight saviour
Replace them with six foot, fifteen stone Neolithic cannibals
I like it abrupt
You Hockney whore, come to fucking Waterloo
I promise not to hide when I’m home
It’s slightly boring to explain by text. Fucked on sunshine and tea and wind farms and clouds. A deaf person just shouted and I got a warm little rush of adrenalin in my chest if you must know. Mince says I never understood him or the disjunctive nature of society. He also wants to know the moral and ethical justifications for drinking
He has bingo fever
Sorry for not being at your beck and call for once, I was doing one of those annoying things in my life that stops me staring at my phone waiting for you
This place is a hole. At least he scored. I fear we may have lost him forever
Your brother just sent me a kiss.
The doors of perception are open. I quote ‘lets be hedonistic, flirtatious…’. I guarantee solidarity if you’re up for it
I’m no longer your midnight saviour
Replace them with six foot, fifteen stone Neolithic cannibals
I like it abrupt
You Hockney whore, come to fucking Waterloo
I promise not to hide when I’m home
It’s slightly boring to explain by text. Fucked on sunshine and tea and wind farms and clouds. A deaf person just shouted and I got a warm little rush of adrenalin in my chest if you must know. Mince says I never understood him or the disjunctive nature of society. He also wants to know the moral and ethical justifications for drinking
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I increasingly find it difficult to see why we are alive, where meaning lies, what suffering does, whether beauty is mere invention to make us forget
But isn’t what you call soul invented?
What a bore you are
What a horrible question, I don’t tend to heap shame on myself. When was the last time you cried?
Ill leave you with thoughts of long sweaty nights on a pacific island with palm leaves rustling above your head, waves gently splashing on the beach outside and a very brown boy gently kissing you.
You should listen to Tosca
I’ve felt so happy for such a long time and the only thing in my life I find unsatisfying is my relationship with you.
How is Greenwich with her better?
It’s just a bit hurtful to ignore someone when they have clearly gone out on a limb. Lesson learnt
I just got rid of all my pubes-front and back
But isn’t what you call soul invented?
What a bore you are
What a horrible question, I don’t tend to heap shame on myself. When was the last time you cried?
Ill leave you with thoughts of long sweaty nights on a pacific island with palm leaves rustling above your head, waves gently splashing on the beach outside and a very brown boy gently kissing you.
You should listen to Tosca
I’ve felt so happy for such a long time and the only thing in my life I find unsatisfying is my relationship with you.
How is Greenwich with her better?
It’s just a bit hurtful to ignore someone when they have clearly gone out on a limb. Lesson learnt
I just got rid of all my pubes-front and back
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Good luck with the fresh start
Shut up, you’re lying
There is really something about you that I cant put my finger on
Coming to wander in a big city all alone, watch the multitude pass, feel one with the world and the like
Abortion is a big thing even if you get a doctor to do it
I got a big problem - bomb threats at waterloo
You sound Impatient. It’s at the Crown Court
I’m being force fed pasta.
I’ve just seen king David walking over Waterloo Bridge. In his fight for repatriation he has acquired a new statue of the queen on wheels, wearing a yellow anorak. She is also wearing a swastika and learner badge
Shut up, you’re lying
There is really something about you that I cant put my finger on
Coming to wander in a big city all alone, watch the multitude pass, feel one with the world and the like
Abortion is a big thing even if you get a doctor to do it
I got a big problem - bomb threats at waterloo
You sound Impatient. It’s at the Crown Court
I’m being force fed pasta.
I’ve just seen king David walking over Waterloo Bridge. In his fight for repatriation he has acquired a new statue of the queen on wheels, wearing a yellow anorak. She is also wearing a swastika and learner badge
archive 1.0
Ill be anywhere you want
Not so fast. Ask me a question
Violation of human rights
Being alone with books and flowers
I’ve gone Goth
Sometimes I forget how weird you are
Working behind the bar made me writhe with sorrow to see the cruel emptiness that fills peoples lives and the desperation to fill it.
I don’t understand how you manage to construe my comments about the human condition as undermining to your feelings. I admire your capacity for honesty
My parents have redecorated my room and removed all but a few strands of bubblegum from my bed. The end is nigh
Your youthful exuberance is cute
Did you not gather that from the messages?
He's going with a group of manly hunks. I think he would relish your presence
Jesus Christ. On the cross
I was disappointed we didn’t kiss more. There is a difference between two people who have sex and two people who kiss and have sex.
Fortune favours the brave
Not so fast. Ask me a question
Violation of human rights
Being alone with books and flowers
I’ve gone Goth
Sometimes I forget how weird you are
Working behind the bar made me writhe with sorrow to see the cruel emptiness that fills peoples lives and the desperation to fill it.
I don’t understand how you manage to construe my comments about the human condition as undermining to your feelings. I admire your capacity for honesty
My parents have redecorated my room and removed all but a few strands of bubblegum from my bed. The end is nigh
Your youthful exuberance is cute
Did you not gather that from the messages?
He's going with a group of manly hunks. I think he would relish your presence
Jesus Christ. On the cross
I was disappointed we didn’t kiss more. There is a difference between two people who have sex and two people who kiss and have sex.
Fortune favours the brave
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About the most depressing place I have ever been. Lasted about seven minutes
Passed a deserted pair of trainers. It would seem you weren’t the only person to have lost your shoes last night
He keeps bright green frogs
Check the dictionary
It’s a big car
So fucked, I just kicked a courgette
We’re not going to wake up, that’s for damn sure
Last year of your age of innocence
You have my space. Conformist bitch
My room, five o clock
There is a Somalian on my bus finger-eating a yogurt
Think of the drugs we could be taking, pent up with the sexual frustration
I hope you’re flying around with lightness and joy
I fed some of your brownie to him, the chef. He said it was exquisite then said ‘I used to walk round looking for food in Covent Garden with her’.
We are drinking coke and smoking. Thinking of you wistfully
Pardon?
I want to go to Japan, learn Japanese, go shopping in Tokyo. With you
Passed a deserted pair of trainers. It would seem you weren’t the only person to have lost your shoes last night
He keeps bright green frogs
Check the dictionary
It’s a big car
So fucked, I just kicked a courgette
We’re not going to wake up, that’s for damn sure
Last year of your age of innocence
You have my space. Conformist bitch
My room, five o clock
There is a Somalian on my bus finger-eating a yogurt
Think of the drugs we could be taking, pent up with the sexual frustration
I hope you’re flying around with lightness and joy
I fed some of your brownie to him, the chef. He said it was exquisite then said ‘I used to walk round looking for food in Covent Garden with her’.
We are drinking coke and smoking. Thinking of you wistfully
Pardon?
I want to go to Japan, learn Japanese, go shopping in Tokyo. With you
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Sun over the chimneys. Witchcraft. Money spider on my hand. Hats with gleeful tourists. New benches need weathering
It was ethereal. I didn’t go running
Do you have bruises?
I have recently had an orgasm. Wanting to keep you in the loop
Oh god I shall be punished for that
I am so sorry for my weak willed behaviour last night
I’m quite sure she is madly in love with me. I’m on the dreaded B-U-S, on terribly good form
Come by for coke and cigarettes if you please
I am listening to La Boheme and reading about inflation. Life is so absurd
My heart is inscrutably besieged by a concentration of forces, sounds, purposes, shadows and ghosts
Must be like reminiscing about the good old days when we wished we were dead
That is the stupidest text I have ever received. Please dont speak to me again
It was ethereal. I didn’t go running
Do you have bruises?
I have recently had an orgasm. Wanting to keep you in the loop
Oh god I shall be punished for that
I am so sorry for my weak willed behaviour last night
I’m quite sure she is madly in love with me. I’m on the dreaded B-U-S, on terribly good form
Come by for coke and cigarettes if you please
I am listening to La Boheme and reading about inflation. Life is so absurd
My heart is inscrutably besieged by a concentration of forces, sounds, purposes, shadows and ghosts
Must be like reminiscing about the good old days when we wished we were dead
That is the stupidest text I have ever received. Please dont speak to me again
Monday, 21 September 2009
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In a taxi on the way to Milan
At the back next to the butchers who sells hanging rabbits and birds
Its pathetic and pointless is it not?
Please translate
You first
I would only irritate you
I mean, frustrate
Next time I have an identity crisis I’ll go for inanimate objects. I’ve always found dessert spoons attractive
Where are you? Geographically, not in your head
God, don’t lick your fingers
Things moved really fast
At the back next to the butchers who sells hanging rabbits and birds
Its pathetic and pointless is it not?
Please translate
You first
I would only irritate you
I mean, frustrate
Next time I have an identity crisis I’ll go for inanimate objects. I’ve always found dessert spoons attractive
Where are you? Geographically, not in your head
God, don’t lick your fingers
Things moved really fast
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She wants to know what you’re on
Top alone. In kfc. Chewing really really quickly. Pushes the bit of chicken hanging out of the side of his mouth with his thumb. Why is he chewing so quickly?
Stay cool
I can’t get out of bed. Motivate me
Right ear right queer
It thrills me when you’re really oversensitive
In Singapore they have plastic food centres where the lights are always on. You never know what time it is. Little old men sit and slurp unashamedly
Can I come round? Agitated
You have to follow the instructions otherwise it just won’t work
You have no idea the effect you have on me. I can barely contain myself
At least you’re not being continuously face raped by assorted dogs and not spending Valentines Day with the local historian. The older you are, the more interested hell be in you
Thank you for my mouse
Top alone. In kfc. Chewing really really quickly. Pushes the bit of chicken hanging out of the side of his mouth with his thumb. Why is he chewing so quickly?
Stay cool
I can’t get out of bed. Motivate me
Right ear right queer
It thrills me when you’re really oversensitive
In Singapore they have plastic food centres where the lights are always on. You never know what time it is. Little old men sit and slurp unashamedly
Can I come round? Agitated
You have to follow the instructions otherwise it just won’t work
You have no idea the effect you have on me. I can barely contain myself
At least you’re not being continuously face raped by assorted dogs and not spending Valentines Day with the local historian. The older you are, the more interested hell be in you
Thank you for my mouse
Monday, 14 September 2009
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Phone phobic
Me being horrible to you does not begin to make any sense
Rot in some fucking backwater of hell you nauseatingly socially grubbing worms you oily consciously fucking messed up troglodyte with your twitching sweating gonads and slathering tongues. How can you have the nerve to feel superior? We have a good arrangement. He makes the weapons, I use them
I don’t trust chance as much as you seem to. I require a meeting for conversation
The authoritative approach clearly failed, I have to give up
I’m leaving it all to you because clearly things have to be on your terms
Hermits like you said
Tell the story…you know the one, about the tin opener
I was talking about the surrey hills. You made me into a fool
Don’t allow the momentary glitch in your considerable capacity to charm get in the way of being joyful and belligerent
Too sweet, fuck you
I bought you some tins of mackerel
Do you remember Robin Hood?
Maybe he has fallen down a mineshaft and become a deaf mute, maybe his fingers were bitten off by chipmunks with vicious appetites or a crackhead who mistook them for a morsel of heroin rendering him unable to text
Don’t suppose you’re up for an all nighter in Brixton?
Very poetic. Punctuation needs work
Me being horrible to you does not begin to make any sense
Rot in some fucking backwater of hell you nauseatingly socially grubbing worms you oily consciously fucking messed up troglodyte with your twitching sweating gonads and slathering tongues. How can you have the nerve to feel superior? We have a good arrangement. He makes the weapons, I use them
I don’t trust chance as much as you seem to. I require a meeting for conversation
The authoritative approach clearly failed, I have to give up
I’m leaving it all to you because clearly things have to be on your terms
Hermits like you said
Tell the story…you know the one, about the tin opener
I was talking about the surrey hills. You made me into a fool
Don’t allow the momentary glitch in your considerable capacity to charm get in the way of being joyful and belligerent
Too sweet, fuck you
I bought you some tins of mackerel
Do you remember Robin Hood?
Maybe he has fallen down a mineshaft and become a deaf mute, maybe his fingers were bitten off by chipmunks with vicious appetites or a crackhead who mistook them for a morsel of heroin rendering him unable to text
Don’t suppose you’re up for an all nighter in Brixton?
Very poetic. Punctuation needs work
Thursday, 10 September 2009
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I just unearthed a 6inch layer of chewing gum from under my bed. Thinking about cloning you
You wank. I can never compete with Fulham
You being a little brown person
Not that this makes any difference to you but just so you know. Whatever I do, whoever I meet and however long I don’t see you. Weeks, months or years. You will always be a very special part of my life
Your crab salad is here
Leave the library, you incredibly stupid bitch
Maybe they’re going nowhere. Maybe there are no planes. Just words and rhymes of love and wine. I’m looking in the mirror and I cant help but wonder who this person standing in front of me is. Fucking bollocks
You may have to electric shock him. Laser gun in the balls
Fuck off
Stop the oxford animal labs, stop the oxford torture labs, stop the oxford animal labs
Are you drunk?
It’s sad, but sadly true. I don’t understand your jokes. Have come to accept that in pain
It was meant in a fond way and no other. You got more than you bargained for with that first message
You wank. I can never compete with Fulham
You being a little brown person
Not that this makes any difference to you but just so you know. Whatever I do, whoever I meet and however long I don’t see you. Weeks, months or years. You will always be a very special part of my life
Your crab salad is here
Leave the library, you incredibly stupid bitch
Maybe they’re going nowhere. Maybe there are no planes. Just words and rhymes of love and wine. I’m looking in the mirror and I cant help but wonder who this person standing in front of me is. Fucking bollocks
You may have to electric shock him. Laser gun in the balls
Fuck off
Stop the oxford animal labs, stop the oxford torture labs, stop the oxford animal labs
Are you drunk?
It’s sad, but sadly true. I don’t understand your jokes. Have come to accept that in pain
It was meant in a fond way and no other. You got more than you bargained for with that first message
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I was simply buying exotic boxer shorts to compensate for what lies within
Would you consider taking a car across America for a couple of weeks in September?
It seems that every time we speak it’s the same theme. It has to change
Don’t forget me
I have a spare room with a bed. Its yours unless you would prefer a sofa. I have one of them too
You’re like an Imaginary friend only you get to talk to and see Imaginary friends
Fucking phenomenal. Don’t tease me
That’s right. All I do is try to make you feel crap
I’m only going in the hope that being on the other side of the world I wont miss you so much
Don’t make me progress to angry
It’s something of a talent
Would you consider taking a car across America for a couple of weeks in September?
It seems that every time we speak it’s the same theme. It has to change
Don’t forget me
I have a spare room with a bed. Its yours unless you would prefer a sofa. I have one of them too
You’re like an Imaginary friend only you get to talk to and see Imaginary friends
Fucking phenomenal. Don’t tease me
That’s right. All I do is try to make you feel crap
I’m only going in the hope that being on the other side of the world I wont miss you so much
Don’t make me progress to angry
It’s something of a talent
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
archive 1.8
You are test articulate. Makes me feel like the village idiot
I knew you were a bad egg
I’ve got no sense of smell. I lost it hitting my head age 9
Standing in Bristol station next to a couple in matching baby blue velour tracksuits. Does life get any better?
In blacks outdoor shop. Contemplating whether to lie down in one of the tents
Being asked where my summerhouse is and who my favourite reggae artist is. ooh er.
Part of me, which is being suppressed, wishes I were with you tonight
Just stole a role of ‘size 16’ stickers. Screwing. I rarely text for fun
Just bite your lip
I knew you were a bad egg
I’ve got no sense of smell. I lost it hitting my head age 9
Standing in Bristol station next to a couple in matching baby blue velour tracksuits. Does life get any better?
In blacks outdoor shop. Contemplating whether to lie down in one of the tents
Being asked where my summerhouse is and who my favourite reggae artist is. ooh er.
Part of me, which is being suppressed, wishes I were with you tonight
Just stole a role of ‘size 16’ stickers. Screwing. I rarely text for fun
Just bite your lip
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Your trousers still wet my phone but I have a camera like yours now and longer hair and browner skin and twelve kittens who live near the sink and eat what I’ve forgotten about, like the people who remember the little things one does and says
I have only been arrested once this holiday for stealing port and sherry form a hotel
On and on and on we go climbing to the top screaming and shouting like ravenous blacks
Feeling nice and working class?
'Burgundy makes you think of silly things, Bordeaux makes you talk about them and Champagne makes you do them’-brilliant savarin
All I keep imagining is my dad dying
I sent your love to him. He was touched
I’ve beaten you to Christmas so fuck you, cunt
I don’t know what the odds are. By chance we have met twice. We could cheat chance and save time
I have only been arrested once this holiday for stealing port and sherry form a hotel
On and on and on we go climbing to the top screaming and shouting like ravenous blacks
Feeling nice and working class?
'Burgundy makes you think of silly things, Bordeaux makes you talk about them and Champagne makes you do them’-brilliant savarin
All I keep imagining is my dad dying
I sent your love to him. He was touched
I’ve beaten you to Christmas so fuck you, cunt
I don’t know what the odds are. By chance we have met twice. We could cheat chance and save time
Sunday, 6 September 2009
archive 2.0
Fatboyslim is fucking in heaven
I’ve already got it
Oh god I hope I haven’t brought on some self-analysing crap on you. If there is anyone to do that, it would be me
Now dance
You’ve tainted my precious lips. Like two big plastic slugs
I didn’t think anything could make me smile on such a hellish journey. Cruising away, near a tear, huge smile. Only you do this to me
Try repeatedly thinking about white blood cells engulfing bacteria. What sound would it make?
I think the freaks will welcome you with open arms
They involve you, a blowtorch, a long string of tinsel and a rabid squirrel
Bald man. Grey bench. Dirty train carriages. Scaffolding. Talked to a man whose music can break down cancer cells
The occasional word heard through the drum and bass was thoroughly dry
If I could, I would fly through your window and drop the softest of kisses on your lips before you fell asleep
I just bought the most vulgar present for you
I’ve already got it
Oh god I hope I haven’t brought on some self-analysing crap on you. If there is anyone to do that, it would be me
Now dance
You’ve tainted my precious lips. Like two big plastic slugs
I didn’t think anything could make me smile on such a hellish journey. Cruising away, near a tear, huge smile. Only you do this to me
Try repeatedly thinking about white blood cells engulfing bacteria. What sound would it make?
I think the freaks will welcome you with open arms
They involve you, a blowtorch, a long string of tinsel and a rabid squirrel
Bald man. Grey bench. Dirty train carriages. Scaffolding. Talked to a man whose music can break down cancer cells
The occasional word heard through the drum and bass was thoroughly dry
If I could, I would fly through your window and drop the softest of kisses on your lips before you fell asleep
I just bought the most vulgar present for you
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Ingredients for quails eggs salad nicoise and fresh bread and fresh tuna at 74
From the second I first saw you I knew you would be something different and having spent three months away from you I still feel the same. I’m giving you my love back
What the fuck does that mean?
I’m in elephant now, I’ve lived in Peckham mostly. I grew up in Italy
I’m pruning trees listening to classic fm. Kind of idyllic
Full moon just rose behind the thin blurry pink mauve clouds, slipping through them, now it’s gleaming. Can you see it from your roof?
This is awful. What’s wrong?
I wanted to make her a frame with loads of passport photos. I’ve got 2000.I’m not sure she would like it
I’m going to bury you in the pesto pasta
Hello you with perfect teeth. You would make a good slave. Good teeth=good bones=good worker
From the second I first saw you I knew you would be something different and having spent three months away from you I still feel the same. I’m giving you my love back
What the fuck does that mean?
I’m in elephant now, I’ve lived in Peckham mostly. I grew up in Italy
I’m pruning trees listening to classic fm. Kind of idyllic
Full moon just rose behind the thin blurry pink mauve clouds, slipping through them, now it’s gleaming. Can you see it from your roof?
This is awful. What’s wrong?
I wanted to make her a frame with loads of passport photos. I’ve got 2000.I’m not sure she would like it
I’m going to bury you in the pesto pasta
Hello you with perfect teeth. You would make a good slave. Good teeth=good bones=good worker
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