Airport; A song plays.
It’s ‘The Green, Green Grass
of Home’…
A Yankee cover.
Category: Issue 2
DOGS IN BOOKS #002
Benji
Fastest Dog in the West
Joe Camp 1978
2000
2000 was the future
when I was a kid.
2000 is a thread count
for my mum.
2000 has a Wikipedia entry.
In 2000 I moved to London.
Gisbourne, New Zealand was the first city to welcome the year 2000.
Kubrick didn’t live to the year 2000.
In the year 2000 the world was supposed to end.
Enigma 2000 has nothing to do
with the above prediction.
United Religions target
date was 2000.
2000 was official year of
culture and peace.
2000 was a leap year.
In 2000 Barbie represented educational excellence and new opportunities for girls.
Sydney hosted the Olympics
in the year 2000.
In 2000 Ken Livingstone becomes the first mayor of London.
Al Gore loses the presidential election in 2000.
I will never live to celebrate my 2000th birthday.
Let me tweak
COLLISION
—Knock knock.
—Who’s there?
—It’s the police.
—It’s the police who?
—It’s the police. I’m afraid there’s been a terrible accident.
mud skipper
bare grills
Long Day
Monmorn.
Monday.
Monnight.
Black Car
For a while I spent a few hours waiting for the black car like a child looking for his separated parent out the window on the Saturday morning of their time with them.
I muddied about a bit and tried best as I could to not let the thoughts of the black car interfere with my day and was absolutely unsuccessful.
Instead, I meandered and remembered my first lies and why.
I believe I was 6 and I stole a pen with a clock in it, which at that time was as shiny as the shiniest of things and I wanted it and she had it so I took it and when asked I denied it and then hid it badly. It fell off the top of the Hacker record player on which was also Madness.
I gave it back and for a WEEK was not very popular really.
I thought about the times I have waited at the window for a parent, partner, delivery driver, post person, friend and enemy, but never before a black car and yet here it was drawing noise from the gravel on the drive leading to the place where I imagined it to be for so long.
I walked from the window hurriedly and pretended I hadn’t seen it coming before it could see.
Table For One
8-BIT LIT: HAMLET
