talk about Reading ’98
about watching New Order
I see what you’re doing, old man
grasping nothing real
I watch the bubbles in your drink
beside your glass, a memo, Applying Our Values
your charm is a secret
allegories posited in the blind-spot of CCTV
I won’t please you, let you go
to be traded, translated
buckets of blood, black pudding, a tower block
alone in a field, a rolling theatre of clouds
the Thames crossing us
in a park, skinheads rehearse martial arts
one brandishing a needle
wannabe, take your boots off
nature, you asleep faller
mud to your ankles
water to your thighs
his repentance, a repertoire of excursions
as if the next will be the one to take her silence
his nostalgia, ruralism
Poet Douglas Kearney and composer/producer/drummer Val Jeanty link up for a a compelling LP that feels like the written word come to life. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 30, 2021