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Wednesday, 15 August 2018

Cube 3: Right, front, top, bottom, left, back

All too human
All too human at Tate Britain
Couples, families, groups of friends, folks on their own
A Sunday tradition, on Easter Monday

Headscarfs had to be worn
In the mosque
All too human at Tate Britain
You did not loiter

Headscarfs had to be worn
No place really for a woman
All too human
Too much violence in the Quran

You did not loiter
Look again at portraiture
A Sunday tradition, on Easter Monday
See just how the artists interpret our life

No place really for a woman
In the mosque
Spaces not filled with the peacefulness of peace
Look again at portraiture

Too much violence in the Quran
Spaces not filled with the peacefulness of peace
Couples, families, groups of friends, folks on their own
See just how the artists interpret our life


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Tuesday, 14 August 2018

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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Monday, 13 August 2018

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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Sunday, 12 August 2018

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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Saturday, 11 August 2018

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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