POETRYTHURSDAY±1

I love love poetry.
& I love love Thursdays.

So I introduce to you, fair readers, Poetry Thursday. To try & force myself to look out for/ research/ find new poets & poetry I will try & post a poem every Thursday, from now until I get bored of this.

The first poet is one of my all time favorites:
Roger McGough

I have posted one of his poems before. But this one is a new personal favorite from a volume I saw at work & bought, but didn't read until Mr Jay picked it out on my floor a few weeks ago.



The Act of Love

The act of love lies somewhere
Between the belly and the mind
I lost the love sometime ago
Now I've only the act to grind.

Brought her home from a party
Don't bother swapping names
Identities not needed
When your only playing games

High on bedroom darkness
As we endure the pantomime
Ships that go bang in the night
Run aground on the sands of time

Saved in the nick of dawn
It's cornflakes and then goodbyes
Another notch on the headboard
Another day wondering why

The act of love lies somewhere
Between the belly and the mind
I lost the love sometime ago
Now I've only the act to grind.


Photos: Lauryn Holmquist


Do you likey?

WOULDYOURISKITFORACHOCOLATEBISCUIT

Robert Clergerie is God.
Robert Clergerie is God.

//link//

(quote from Slaughterhouse 5. read it, it's amazing.)

THEGIRLSGOTRHYTHMTHEGIRLSGOTRHYTHM

"We can't go to sleep, we need to trick our bodies into thinking it's a normal day."
Famous last words. He of this phrase is now slowly falling down the hand that was propping his head up on the edge of the sofa. We are e.x.h.a.u.s.t.e.d. & covered in bruises.

My Day:

• Left Donnington Park at about 4 this morning. Got back to mine about 7ish
• Spent 2 hours in the bath, turning the water gray...
• I made 3 pairs on tights (which are selling like hot cakes thanks to this feature on lost in e minor) hence the hearts on my knees in the above photo, I have to draw them on for placement... You can get some here.
  
• Ate & realized my mum is in Manchester & then Ukraine. I swear I never even see that woman
• Went down to the post office armed with packages from eBay sales PLUS the tights. & more SWEAT zines. The woman laughed at my heart stamps and the fact that I went to walk away before actually paying... I did pay!
• Went to college, for the transition weeks into A2. Yes I re-did a year. I know, I know, I can't to ASs forever. Can you believe I now have 7 AS levels? & should end up with 4 A2s. I don't think I'll ever leave fucking school/college.
• Interviewed my friend Amber who's in a band called The Tamborines. It's for a contribution to this magazine, LACE. Which you can see some screen grabs of, here.
• When I got home Mr Jay had cooked lasagna & we watched the film Kids, with Chloe Sevigny. Fucking weird film. But then Larry Clark is a pretty weird dude, so hey.
• Now I'm making him stay up to watch Mary Queen of Shops (Mary Portas = love) & he thinks his body doesn't know he's had about three hours of sleep in 4 days. That would have to be one stupid body.

How was your weekend? Are you watching the world cup? Are you avoiding it? Have you been to a festival? I miss you all... I will be a better blogger. Promise!

I NEED SLEEP.

LETYOURFINGERSDOTHEWALKING

I'm off to see the wizard
The wonderful wizard of ROCK

It's that one weekend where that skirt wearing ginger girl with the big eyes becomes that girl in the ripped up t-shirt with the bloodshot eyes covered in bruises & other peoples sweat.

The weekend where I earn my stripes as the proud girlfriend of one of those sweaty, tattooed, smelly people that are too scared to push me back. Yay for being a girl in a mosh pit...



DOWNLOAD of course. Yes, yes, I may have been looking forward to Reading for months & months (blink 182, the libertines...er, hello!?!) & I may have forgotten until Monday to arrange my day off at work, but still. Punching people constantly for about 48 hours (with the other 24 filled with eating, not much sleeping &... ahem, other stuff) with them just looking at you & smiling like they could die right there on the spot & be happy. Yep, yep, it's my kind of weekend.

See you there?

SWEATISSUE±4

SWEAT ISSUE±4 IS NOW AVAILABLE

FOR JUST £1!

ONE POUND //
ONE DOLLAR FIFTY

You can get it right !HERE!






Ok sorry, sorry for all the photobooth funsies but I'm at home on a Saturday! (cue gasps) I went into work at 4am this morning dressed as a vampire to sell the new Stephanie Mayer book that NO ONE came to buy. Now I have the whole day (well...it's now 3 o'clock...the rest of the day) to do whatever the hell I like. I think the freedom may go to my head. Hence the above.

Oh and I got a new hat! & a new ring (the green one) & some new nail varnish (the green one)
& yes that is my kitchen...I invest a lot of time in finding suitable backgrounds...
(although it does appear to be a kitchen of cleaning products)

Anywho I have a lot to tell you all, do you like wordy posts though? Do you care what I have to say? I don't know if you do... But we shall see. 2 EXAMS LEFT! Then I'm all yours

SWEAT. BABY. SWEAT

YOU WON'T WATCH THIS BUT YOU SHOULD

It happened again.