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Table Matters
02:55
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Dull, bored, numb, grey, frazzled, sitting in a ditch,
a hat, and a bottle, and a creeping sense of dread.
We all do the shopping on Saturday,
our hands in our pockets and potatoes on our head.
He’s got a theory, it’s bigger than their theory,
it’s better than hers, and more rational than yours.
Received ideas are propping up empire,
furthering capital and white mens careers.
Table matters.
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European Coffee Lounge
05:00
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A man enters the room,
closes the door behind him,
walks over, and sits in the chair by window.
He gazes out in silence,
crosses his legs,
and shifts in the chair.
European Coffee Lounge,
pressurised and finely ground,
drinking in the unlit sound,
European Coffee Lounge.
Looking out of the window
the building is reflected in the windows of the next building,
which is reflecting back the reflection of the windows of this building,
reflecting back the windows of that building...
...reflecting.
European Coffee Lounge,
pressurised and finely ground,
drinking in the unlit sound,
European Coffee Lounge.
“Welcome back” the radio presenter says
when the music ends.
But welcome back from where?
We didn’t go anywhere to return from,
neither, one presumes, did she.
European Coffee Lounge,
pressurised and finely ground,
drinking in the unlit sound,
European Coffee Lounge.
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3. |
Syntax
07:12
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Ruffer crack, Shakatak,
rogue, rascal, frater.
Launderette, maunderer,
Koncrete Kobbler.
Words and their meanings,
bent out of shape,
in a confusion
of sound and syntax.
Dimber, dambler
clapper-dudgeon, swaddler,
cosmic prancer,
angler, cackler, dancer.
All kinds of people,
bent out of shape,
in their confusion,
sound and syntax.
click track, switch back,
tactic, tin tack,
tic tac, yik yak,
practice syntax.
All kinds of meaning,
bent out of shape,
formed from confusion
of sound and syntax.
Words and their meanings,
bent out of shape,
in a confusion
of sound and syntax.
Cadge-gloak, curtal,
palliard, patrico,
jackman, whip-jack,
drummer, click track,
syntax, tactic,
tin tack, practice,
tic tac, click track,
syntax, switch back…
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Pigeon in my Pocket
03:44
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The night, the wind a young giraffe
Inside her room, the runes are cast
The iron bridge the bugle horn
Sounds the signal across the ward
If as one the patients rise
Each to see the winged surprise
Pigeon in my pocket
A silver grey
A push pedal bicycle tearaway
Pigeon in my pocket
With a drop of gin
Drip it, drop it, turn it in.
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5. |
Burt's Baby
02:51
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6. |
Generic Ambient Music
02:11
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Generic ambient music
is what I listen to these days,
it’s supposed to be relaxing,
supposed to smooth my cares away.
It plays on in the background,
as though it isn’t there,
as though it isn’t noticed,
as though it doesn’t care.
There’s years, literally years, of it,
that can be streamed online,
who ever listens to it,
who ever has the time?
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7. |
Leary Man
03:54
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Of ups and downs I've felt the shocks
Since days of bats and shuttlecocks,
And allcumpaine and Albert-rocks,
When I the world began;
And for these games I often sigh
Both marmoney and Spanish-fly,
And flying kites, too, in the sky,
For which I've often ran.
But by what I've seen, and where I've been,
I've always found it so,
That if you wish to learn to live
Too much you cannot know.
For you must now be wide-awake,
If a living you would make,
So I'll advise what course to take
To be a Leary Man.
Go first to costermongery,
To every fakement get a-fly,
And pick up all their slangery,
But let this be your plan;
Put up with no Kieboshery,
But look well after poshery,
And cut teetotal sloshery,
And get drunk when you can.
And when you go to spree about,
Let it always be your pride
To have a white tile on your nob
And bull-dog by your side
Your fogle you must flashly tie
Each word must patter flashery,
And hit cove's head to smashery,
To be a Leary Man.
To Covent Garden or Billingsgate
You of a morn must not be late,
But your donkey drive at a slashing rate,
And first be if you can.
From short pipe you must your bacca blow
And if your donkey will not go,
To lick him you must not be slow
But well his hide must tan.
The fakement conn'd by knowing rooks
Must be well known to you,
And if you come to fibbery,
You must mug one or two.
Then go to St Giles's rookery,
And live up some strange nookery,
Of no use domestic cookery,
To be a Leary Man.
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8. |
Best Before
03:50
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t's got to that stage,
heading towards retirement age,
turning the page,
turning the page.
But it's never too late,
even counting down the final days,
to make some mistakes,
by the best before date.
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