Thursday 21 April 2016

Prince - d. April 21st 2016

Tonight all the skies
are purple, peach and black.
You were not so much taken
as taken back.





Wednesday 20 April 2016

Victoria Wood - d. April 20th 2016

Those angels. Just look;
lacy shifts and feathers.
At their age they should 
know better. Theda Bara
meets Violet Carson.
Black? Very slimming.

Read about Victoria Wood here

Friday 15 April 2016

Phil Sayer - d. April 14th 2016

Platform 1 
for the 
[delayed]
20.16 
Arcadia Rail 
service to 
Petersgate

Please 
mind the gap 
between this life
and any
which might follow.



Thursday 14 April 2016

Gareth Thomas - d. April 13th 2016

I heard rumours of death,
turned my ship 
to your last
confirmed sighting
standard by 12!
It's been 30 years
but stars don’t forget
men like you.


Wednesday 13 April 2016

Arnold Wesker - April 12th 2016

We're done with dumb,
accepting defeat,
with walking down
a no-way street, 
chips with every damn 
thing. We will come
out of the kitchen and eat.



Wednesday 6 April 2016

Merle Haggard - d. April 6th 2016

Your train is coming,
every boxcar stuffed
with lonesome fugitives
copying your style.
It slows, stops. 
One car is empty,
just for you. Climb on.

Read about Merle Haggard here

Tuesday 5 April 2016

Erik Bauersfeld - d. April 4th 2016

All that may persist
of some of us
will be a single line,
incidental to the plot
yet destined
to hang in the silence
of the emptying theatre.