‘Outside rented flatbread bakeries: no-one working; everybody smoking; rolling up those tarmac fumes.’
Tag: london
On strike action: Convenience & Inconvenience
‘I took the tube today just to see what all the fuss was about.’
Deus ex machina: Monopoly Man
Standing silently upon a tall building’s top floor, a man stares out surveying a city he knows well, or at … More
So Retro… or, Why I am protesting on 20th June
‘When did this become a country that took pride in putting ‘poor’ people on TV to be gawped at and labelled as ‘the problem’, and when did we become a viewing public that revels in arguing over who was the most awful scrounging scumbag of the lot of them?’
Poem: The sons of Mammon
They clawed their way out of the ground. Risen and towering, presiding over the destruction of crushed tradition, they razed … More
Poem: The breath of everything
I’ve held the breath of everything in my lungs at one time or another.
Poem: Plectrum Found, London
I found a plectrum at Liverpool Street station; Bottom of the stairs rising up to Bishopsgate; A bottomless blue like … More
Book of Pye 