Cube 3: Back, right, front, top, bottom, left

The car, without any markings, is sinister
The cocktail bar, with red velvet seating, is sinister
The Souza paintings are sinister
The Francis Bacon’s, all of them, always sinister

Lucian Freud, why? Naked
Lucian Freud, unattractive? Naked
The Souza paintings are sinister
Lucian Freud, grotesque? Naked

Francis Bacon: triptych; challenging
Francis Bacon: light bulb; challenging
Lucian Freud, unattractive? Naked
Francis Bacon; daring, challenging

Francis Bacon: triptych; challenging
RB Kitaj, blessed with the colourful
Lucian Freud, why? Naked
The car, without any markings, is sinister

Francis Bacon; daring, challenging
RB Kitaj, over-flowingly colourful
Lucian Freud, grotesque? Naked
The Francis Bacon’s, all of them, always sinister

RB Kitaj, blessed with the colourful
Francis Bacon: light bulb; challenging
The cocktail bar, with red velvet seating, is sinister
RB Kitaj, over-flowingly colourful

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Cube 3: Left, back, right, front, top, bottom

Abandoned car
On the ring road
Police are aware stickers
Over smashed in windows

Maybe with a crowbar
Police are aware stickers
Someone must have been really angry
Someone must have done something very wrong

Perhaps gang warfare, or drug dealers
Or a seriously broken relationship
Someone must have been really angry
To cause so much wanton damage

What will it take for recovery
On the ring road
Or a seriously broken relationship
To make one lose one’s senses

What will it take for recovery
Abandoned car
Perhaps gang warfare, or drug dealers
Maybe with a crowbar

To make one lose one’s senses
Over smashed in windows
To cause so much wanton damage
Someone must have done something very wrong

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Cube 2: Left, back, front, bottom, top, right

Kings Cross is our next stop
Buffet is in coach H
First class has complimentary service
We are now leaving Peterborough

Past the building sites
Buffet is in coach H
Past the industrial estates
Past the open fields with potato pickers

Past the drainage channels
First class has complimentary service
Past the ponds with reeds and grasses
Past the church, on its own, in a field

Past the church, on its own, in a field
We are now leaving Peterborough
With embankments to both sides
Past the open fields with potato pickers

Past the drainage channels
Kings Cross is our next stop
Flooded fields, long boats on canals
Past the building sites

Flooded fields, long boats on canals
Past the ponds with reeds and grasses
Past the industrial estates
With embankments to both sides

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Cube 2: Right, left, back, front, bottom, top

Platform 3 for the 10:40 to London
First class to the front
Tickets and railcards please
Is contactless ok?

Are you having food?
Fruit, yoghurt, popcorn, pain au chocolat
Do you want coffee sir?
Can I have a sparkling water?

Charing Cross for Trafalgar Square
Fruit, yoghurt, popcorn, pain au chocolat
Tickets and railcards please
Blackfriars or Mansion House

For Tate Modern
Do you want coffee sir?
First class to the front
Less affluent classes to the rear

Less affluent classes to the rear
Can I have a sparkling water?
Is contactless ok?
Blackfriars or Mansion House

For Tate Modern
Are you having food?
Platform 3 for the 10:40 to London
Charing Cross for Trafalgar Square

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Out of town
Onto the new road
Then back onto the old road
But first petrol, and a bacon sandwich

Then back onto the old road
Car stereo playing loudly
Or silenced completely
To allow poems to be recorded

Onto the new road
Poems dreamt up whilst driving
No, I know it’s not the safest way
And it is quite possibly illegal

But first petrol, and a bacon sandwich
Poems dreamt up whilst driving
Or silenced completely
Depending on the mood of the moment

Out of town
No, I know it’s not the safest way
Car stereo playing loudly
No one knows where you are right now

No one knows where you are right now
And it is quite possibly illegal
To allow poems to be recorded
Depending on the mood of the moment

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