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1966, 2016, alien, alley, bed, Bowie, bread, buildings, career, chanting, corner, direction, echo, emptiness, everything, home, life, light, looking, love, passing, pavement, people, Potala Palace, sound, speech, streets, survival, toes, walking, walls, years
1966 … actually sic
`sbread not love, their’s
n’owt queer as career
so grin ‘n’ glare it on a
magic carpet trip or too
strange lights unknown
in the tops of tall buildings
soul-cold friends of street
corners where people
pass where people don’t
`spare the heartbeat, guv,
coin of tenure, metal
clink on cloth pavement
never like a bed, never
like the toes of hope
in gladiator sandals with
no direction home just
the echoes of alleys
a thousand feet tall
and the air of chanting
around the emptiness
of it allllll-bsssssssh
written amid Uncle Arthur, 1966; She’s Got Medals, 1966; Join the Gang, 1966; Did You Ever Have a Dream, 1966; We Are Hungry Men, 1966; Sell Me a Coat, 1966; Little Bombardier, 1966; Maid of Bond Street, 1966; Silly Boy Blue, 1966
Read the collected movements in David Bowie: Movements in Suite Major
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
Bowie & echo & walls wormhole: ‘the hour before dinner – / the empire of dusk’ – poewieview #6
buildings wormhole: finding my own true nature – Plumstead, Woolwich, 190915
career & looking wormhole: the MagOO Effect Effect
emptiness wormhole: sit / and move
life wormhole: gentle
light & walking wormhole: bamboo-green boiled sweet / with soft purple filling
love wormhole: London Park in Greenwich town – poewieview #5
passing wormhole: train journey // like a branch
people wormhole: com- / mute
sound wormhole: suddenly fly off again
speech wormhole: spit / spot
streets wormhole: London Hearts – poewieview #4
years wormhole: Seven A.M, 1948
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