• The Empathy Deficit

    Day Two Think positive. Heal yourself. “Today is the beginning of my new life”. Shot of butterfly being released from open hands. “Today my faith is restored”. Picture of beautiful sunset. I had to turn the music off, I couldn’t stand it. Now, I do know – because I watched her other videos on YouTube…

  • Tick tock – She cut off their tails with a carving knife

    Day One They say – though I have no idea who they are – that every story is supposed to have a beginning, a middle and an end. This story starts today and I don’t know where today is. Could be in the middle, because the beginning took place about nine years ago. Maybe. Or…

  • The Truth about Qom

    It was revealed to the press by Presidents Obama and Sarkozy and Prime Minister Brown on Friday, September 25th – incidentally the day after the US resolution on non-proliferation was unanimously passed in the Security Council – that Iran had a second uranium enrichment facility near Qom, a Shi’ite holy city in Central Iran. Actually…

  • men suck

    © xanthe hall

  • bore of the bar

    © xanthe hall

  • angry

  • on the angry ground

    the sun has shone it all out on the angry ground and the grass is crying for pity in the evening we will all grow red the babies will lie in the darkness and the people will watch him sink below the horizon leaving art forms behind him. [York, 1975]

  • phone call

    I’m sorry to have to say but he’s not really listening anyway [Berlin, July 1985]    

  • going for it

    thin line blade sharp between will and wish up high board look down clear blue you know that feeling the world over we have all stood in that second split ready to springboard high dive jump air lungs full ecstatic motion and when we were young how many times did we run and stop look…

  • sleep away your wisdom

    I lie there in the snow freezing my palm to your palm and squeezing every drop of gin from my blood that spelt impurity but I can never get back what I have lost because I was out to lose it much too fast if you were to join me here in the dark overgrown…