when you give me nothing
it is the greatest gift
i bend to kiss your feet

for from nothing
will come everything
between love and hate

sweet flowers
seconds minutes hours
your smiling eyes..


and that is three..
there s jenny with the tea
news traffic and weather..
hey,lily,thanks for coming
it´s been great fun-!?
one last question-imagine you
were an alien life form
what would you think of
this world..?

i

it´s predestination would
be a love word-erm-its
position,the moon,sun and all
suggests design and faith-
(there is a magical sequence
that smiles on this hypothesis!)
i would think how utterly
beautiful it is-
how endlessly fascinating-
what exactly is an effing
fish-?

ii

a gold fish?
in our respective
glass receptacle
(cruel cruel)
in small circles
trailing ****
one in seven
waiting..
manner from heaven
wanting to let
change it
waiting
bored and distorted
waiting
to be
flushed
down
the
t
o
i
l
e
t
...


thank you, again,
you re off home?
yes,we are off to a
halloween-fancy dress,
with paul dirac,
what are you-
a hedgehog!
oh nice!
here, a complimentary
copy-
         i´m reading at
books etc on saturday at
twelve..come along steve..
thanks, ill be there..cheers-bye,
au revoir...lily..

-there is gil and his
angel dust
from one seraphim to
another-peut-etre!?
(that is horse tranquilizer)
before tea at three and the news
our resident muse
will read a poem from his/
her selected verse
now available at books etc
on the high street
priced 12.99-somethin for
halloween, i believe..?!


the monsters are about!?
circling around..
what do they want?
-we ask the questions!
(they shout..)

blood ******* vamps
evil made of man-
o men..
you want ******* this?
OR that?

your choice..
hedgehogs
little boys
little girls

in disguise
death lives
a-knocking at the door
give us more..

or else..
mad eyed wolf
black or white
reasonableness..


yes,thankyou,and
one more perhaps
will takes us to the
news and weather
(try not to swear,dear..)
lily..

now we welcome a local poetess
i hope she ll forgive the generic
distinction
can ´t be too careful in these pc
times-a local girl cometo read
and discuss her work and her take on
things in general-i will not say
literally but but lily..!welcome'!

lily-thankyou?!
i don t think it matters if
i am a man or woman-

so have you always been
interested in words and poetry?

no,i spoke my first word early
but it became a mantra in
which silence became music
music and silence became me
the universe is a note-b-flat maybe..

your earliest memory

strange **** about rats but also
a study by fernando sor
used as an introduction to
tales of the riverbank
stretching worms
squeezing **** in my diapers-an
artists relation to his/her **** is
very important..picking up dust-
normal rights of passage..

and you became interested in poetry-when?

when i was about fifty-

quite an hiatus-what made you
write-

i felt like a time had come
like when i stopped drinking
home..i finally had something to say
an end a beginning..

now some words from those who pay
don t go away!



in the studio today is lily-
and tombola at the legion
and a buffet-so why? poetry?

-why do we create
it is partly memory
or fate

we celebrate our existence
and question that
and this

hate or empathy
for purists style
or beauty

entertainment!
money!
only joking!-

and how do you begin..?

motion
like i chop an onion
that leads to something

to the pan
and spaces that fry
in-between-

i might get an idea
the computer
something bothering

or disturbing
or amusing
like a keyboard

felicitates
clarity
i am lefthanded

for example and
wicked connotations
ensue

but my hand
like a spider and all
the angels

on the side of right
something surreal
or real..

ok..quite a broad church
then..?

who do you admire?

that is a question-!?
i like de la mare
edward lear
leonard cohen
ian dury-

a musician?

yes-well-i could nt
write without music
and so brave
a man-

well that leads us on
to a tune gil scot heron and
angel dust..
be back soon..!

i

best not to worry!
there is a formula-
answer: infinity
we..

(who gives a
monkey)
over the square of
nada..

look to the pretty
heaven!
greens and majestic
portals-

o glittering prizes!
pulsars
supernova and a
faintest signal

=´s money!
the more we know
the less we understand
infinity..

ii
lily reads from her
napkin-might recite that
tomorrow-
she is to read and promote
her new slim volume-
it is best to read something
fresh..as she gets bored with her
old stuff-on local radio..

iii

hard to critique ones
own
might be insightful or just
incomprehensible or banal
or so..

or angry and bitter
at such waste
political..
best try happy and-


you know roundabouts
shopping lists
love
etc


iv

the laundrette..
what do think,paul,
cynical
promotes thought..?

yes,but an odd
juxtaposition-
highlights the
hairdresser..special offer..

well,capital will
trivialise
(perhaps if you weren´t  
******..)

v

hedgehogs!
(a spontaneous blog)
i suckle on teats

and share your deep,
dark, secrets..
eye of blackest

dog-
prickly prickly
stealing and spying

so..
your heart worm
mine..

a question with so many
variables and unknowns
lily..i make the sign of
infinity-

(were going to a halloween
party-want to come?
fancy dress!i thought to
be a hedge hog..

stealing and spying!
black of eye
prickly-prickly-
(forever we cry

light and beauty
love our god-
so we die!)
infinite..

paul,tea or coffee?
water,please, in which life began
and our destiny-
do you think our lives have
improved with the advancement
of technology?

(or were we better off with
fantastic superstition
dying old at forty
imagination..
the peace of god..)

(have we lost or
won
how angry to wait
a second?!
how blase we have
become..)

(still,it is enough cliche
to be
or not-a luddite
poet-let him speak,lily..
gods sake..)

peach cobbler?
o ?
to share o

impossible so..
i suppose or
greed is any

different from
jealousy
inverted..

that we know
zero but insist
any-how..

hypocrisy is
the way..
poverty is necessary-

so on-
ice cream, paul,
why not..