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Friday, 7 February 2025

Real to reel

A sense of refined chaos, as if your fathers jam jar, full of screws and nails and picture hooks had been scattered on the floor, over an ordnance survey map of Lincolnshire and beyond


There was a plan, and a classy catalogue

Even so, as an exercise in disorientation

It was fabulously successful


Guys in high-leg turned over leather boots

A sop to the roundheads

Or the cavaliers


Street scenes layered with a palette knife

To lift the slippery sloppy pavement

From the oily doily canvas


Unreeled cassette tape is nailed to the wall

A loop-less but continuous story

With the obligatory I don't give a fuck