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(Image by artist and photographer Nick Dormand)

(Image by artist and photographer Nick Dormand)

My thanks to Cat Chong and Osmosis. You can read the full poem here: https://osmosispress.com/2023/03/26/mike-ferguson-politicians-lie/

As Chris informs me: ‘a drip from the gravy boat’

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Yesterday by chance I found the headed ‘business’ stationery I wrote about in my recent memoir (larger page follows), and writing this was all about memory, as faithful as that can be.

There may be embellishment here and there too, but I don’t genuinely feel I did much of that. What struck me about reading the stationery is that I got one bit of information wrong in the vignette And I Used to Sell Brass Rubbings – though possibly not. On the stationery is states that J XXXX has a B.A. in Theology; in my piece on this I write he was taking a break from studies to help run our brass rubbing enterprise (the euphemisms are not lies, nor embellishment, but a bit of fun). On reflection, I think John did already have his B.A., so it was misremembered to say he was studying for it. I think. It could be that he was still studying, but it looked better to state it was already acquired, as part of the presumed, intended embellishment.

I think he already had the degree, so I relearned something yesterday that I’d forgotten.

I had pictures to put in the book but couldn’t place many because of the expense and poor quality of the priniting for some. This is one that didn’t make it in: Val holding the tube of brass rubbings mentioned in the vignette as we were at Heathrow ready for flying to the States

You can get Holding on to Me in Lockdown here

Considering Suella Braverman’s obscene stunt in Rowana yesterday, I am all the more pleased to have this poem at International Times. With my thanks to IT and Rupert.

You can read the concrete poem here: https://internationaltimes.it/rant/

This is generative/progressive work with text that augments into found patterns. I am trying to find ways to post on this site which allow opening them individually rather than having to place as whole chronological pieces:

And yes, left-clicking on each will allow you to view individually. This is more accurately termed as SymbolsArt here…