• Today I walked past two freshly laundered children
• 974+ white
• Maps are our friends
• I did a good job being dead
• Arms were thin and pink from that really hot April
• Rainbowlensflareforromance
• You by the sea, me wrapped in a garden

This place feels like a secret again. I can shout and sing and hear echoes.
For a time, the room was fuller and people were watching and waiting to see things fall out of my mouth and heart. I was a comedian with only three jokes.
Now it's quiet and I come here to twirl around in the space, whisper things to walls and sometime dab at my eyes with a lace hanky.

Heartbreak is not a hobby.
I'm going to take up golf.

Lesley Gore // Lula magazine outtake 2012

The old me would have had to watch a programme like that out of ghoulish curiosity. 
The new me has learned that this kind of information only showers my soul in demon soot and the devil's engine oil and has me searching frantically in the library for 'unseeing' spells that do not exist.

 One thousandth verse, same as the first

haunt me please.
you have my permission
to rattle the pans
in the pantry
at midnight tonight.

• goody goody syndrome
• food that tastes sci-fi good
• children's choirs
• wet roof after wet roof
• your tales, my straight face
• yr born, you arm-wrestle, you die
• the act of making vivid
• the story begins with stripper shoes and the most fucked up car you ever saw

 

 

Research

Archive: sketchbook

Shrimp

I'm practicing my dirty looks at
your empty window
And in one hour, if you are still not back
I will leave 
a cursed candy shrimp 
on your wall.    

 All the things I haven't told you about...

sometimes girls hide

and spellcast on trains

and conjure at the seaside

and smile until their teeth get cold

and fly home on a broom

and make the sky open up

and fill their pockets with coal

and wish on the same thing every day

and don't miss the sunshine

and get better at maths

Boot Boy

You can end up thinking the strangest things when yr away from home.

Haunt Me // Lula magazine Issue #2 Alternate version

Ill-Fated March 2012

Athens

Santorini

Tomas, Curator of Collage & Lila, Curator of Piggybacks