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#10 (Neiva)
YOU CALL IT PROFESSIONAL FOOTING I CALL IT DRIVEL-MAKING! YOU CALL IT MONEY FOR OLD ROPE I CALL IT EMBELLISHMENT YOU CALL IT CONGLOMERATE I CALL IT CAR PARK YOU CALL IT OUTCRY I CALL IT BALD PATCH YOU CALL IT YOUTH TEAM I CALL IT ACNE YOU CALL IT BRAND I CALL IT BOREDOM YOU CALL IT MINDSET I CALL IT SMART DRESSING YOU CALL IT NATURAL TALENT I CALL IT ACCIDENT YOU CALL IT GLOBAL I CALL IT BLOGAL YOU CALL IT WORKSHOP I CALL IT SHOP YOU CALL IT URBAN PLANNING I CALL IT PANTRY YOU CALL IT UPBRINGING I CALL IT REALPOLITIK YOU CALL IT RIOT I CALL IT TOUR YOU CALL IT SPA I CALL IT SPAM #11 (Neiva) a: over cuppa leafing through situations vacant b: rolling eyes, hair dyeing tips, pipe dreaming c: little we know let alone borrowed ideas at five quid each a: the valves of the heart put under the microscope are but a foil to the best choric scenes b: as we speak, the canine affection to the martyrs along the brick floor c: one has not merely to pay for oneself but to yield a certain profit d: cinema's equivocal position between art and industry accounts for the relations between author and public e: you see I once married the Oban girl I did f: something is wrong with the silence but it often proves pointless trying to assign precise !meaning to details g: he forgot his second pint of brown ale before he was sent on his journey; I brusquely took it, left the field of operations and made my way out / / / / / / / / / / #25 (Neiva) DON’T WORRY ABOUT TAKING NOTES WE’VE PUT ALL THE IMPORTANT STATISTICS ON A HANDOUT FOR YOU Details Servant Drone, Paul Hawkins and Bruno Neiva, 2015 Publication history #25 (Neiva), Europoe: An Anthology of 21st Century Innovative European Poetry, Kingston University Press, London, UK, May 2019 #10 (Hawkins), #10 (Neiva), #11 (Hawkins) and #11 (Neiva), Queen Mob's Teahouse, London, UK and Seattle, WA, USA, Sept. 2015 Servant Drone, Paul Hawkins and Bruno Neiva, Knives Forks and Spoons Press, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, UK, Nov. 2015 |
