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Revolution NOW #GE16: Election Night
Election Night
There were lovers once who thought they were alone
one night in the Glasgow School of Art.
Reckoned that only they could take a palette knife
to scrape off their Sfumato surfaces,
find each other underneath as blank …
Revolution NOW [07]: The Voice That Galls
The Voice That Galls
To the voice on the radio,
Sheltered in your suit
And silken in the tie
That keeps our wrists in bondage:
You say you know our heartfelt headache
As we live hand to mouth
But ask us not to make a meal of it.…
Revolution NOW [06]: Questionnaire
Questionnaire
You appear to be screaming.
Are you screaming?
Why are you screaming?
Is that blood?
Really,
that seems an extreme
response.
On a scale of one to…
Revolution NOW [05]: Port
Port
Each wind, a face, asking to be carried through the compass points.
Magnetic you, ocean to all currents,
torn open as a sail.
On the exhale, the air finds the room to take stock of everything.
If you were to lie down, their …
Revolution NOW [04]: Vertical
Vertical
Engines fly in layers
compulsively stirring
the snow inside the billow
Clouds sponge up the sun.
Before reaching land
the long distance traveller
evaporates without a trace
Seagulls cry in the window.
Towering…
Revolution NOW [03]: Fire
Fire
where should we put our feelings
that attack all four sides
this fertilized pain
when we die
words lie like dead bodies...
my body is still warm
of the fire of sorrow
Headstuff are accepting poems on the theme of…
Revolution NOW [02]: Vanishings
Vanishings
As money vanishes further and further
From the weighted – from gold, coffers –
And thins out into dust motes
And then air, disintegrating through the ether,
Skyscraper light, through
Glass flash-licks across
The plastic…
Revolution NOW [01]: This is How the World is Saved
This is How the World is Saved
I stand on the bridge
river rushing beneath my feet
headlong into the ocean.
The tide is full and
here under a cold night’s sky
I can see my own end so easily
which will come one day regardless.
Why…