Wednesday 24 March 2021

George Segal - d. March 23rd 2021

On the great stage of days
you are what you were. Fun,
even through the fallow years,
the typical American, always.
And classy? More than a touch.

Tuesday 23 March 2021

Frank Worthington - d. March 22nd 2021

Look! The Georgie Best
of the basement classes,
a ponytailed Maradona, 
iconoclast in cowboy boots,
Elvis with rolled-down socks.
Too late! He's left us for dead.

Tuesday 16 March 2021

Yaphet Kotto - d. March 15th 2021

Anybody ever tell you 
you look dead, man, like 
the shadow of a coffin?
Sure, you can graft 
a living in deep space,
or hustle with Mr Big, but
everyone knows names 
is for tombstones, baby.


Saturday 13 March 2021

Murray Walker - d. March 13th 2021

I stood at Stowe, 
waiting
for you to call the blurs through 
one by one, voice over-revving
like a bad gear change, but 
the track had fallen silent, 
and I have to stop now, because
I have a lump in my throat.




Thursday 11 March 2021

Lou Ottens - d. March 6th 2021

Side 1 Track 1:
this boy by the radio
taping the Top Forty
on your box of secrets,
spooling his life across
capstan heads, capturing
himself on ferrous oxide.


Wednesday 3 March 2021

Chris Barber - d. March 2nd 2021

I left a little flower for you,
New Orleans blue. Next day 
I found petals trampled 
into the rug, a red-hot 
combo stomping as they 
soloed in your name, 
not in grief but in joy.


Tuesday 2 March 2021

Bunny Wailer - d. March 2nd 2021

Pass it on! The herb is dead
that grew out of a golden age.
Who feels it knows it in their soul,
that sweet voice born of ghetto rage.