Sunday, February 11, 2018

Rage


















do not go

  finger firmly on the fashion pulse

do not go gentle

  more gentle than the monochrome madness

    we will not click climate change away

old age should burn and rave at close of day

  in moonlight for the annual Sunset Concert

  assembled masses listened to music

  smiles all round for those who listened blissfully

    people are deluged with so much noise

and learn, too late, they grieved it on its way

wise men at their end know dark

    the early dark days of the new America

the last wave by, crying how bright

  the natural beach wave that is very popular right now

    roads falling into rivers and fish swimming through the streets

danced in a green bay

  the coolest colour around

  an enhancing punch of colour

    biblical, terrifying: tornadoes, floods, “rain bombs”, exploding glaciers

caught and sang the sun in flight 

wild men grave men

    oil producers, Russian influence

near death see with blinding sight

  LED lights straddle that tricky void between sensible and fun

  a must view for lovers

    people are getting really fired up

blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay 

there on the sad height

  the perfect man den

    a turtle on top of a fence post

    blood in his eyes

curse, bless me now with your fierce tears

    the rich have subverted all reason

their words had forked no lightning

do not go

  a Gin Experience Weekend for two in London

do not go

    a nature hike through the Book of Revelations

do not go gentle into that good night

I pray

  time to take control ladies and really own this look

    justify pouring everything you can into it

gentle gentle

  a chat about hair hair and, well… more hair

    and his forces wage war against facts and reason

rage rage rage

    overcome fake facts and false narratives

  incredibly cool bed linen

  glam in an instant

rage rage rage

    the interests of big capital, “dark money”, billionaire political funders

rage rage rage rage

    they are trying to cripple our ability to respond to this existential threat

  lift the veil and be conscious

rage against the dying of the light



cut-up of:

Dylan Thomas – Do not go gentle into that good night

Gallery Magazine – no. 143 August 2017 the [NEON] issue

Al Gore: ‘The rich have subverted all reason’ Carole Cadwalladr  – The Observer Sunday 30 July 2017

after On the Late Late Massachers Stillbirths and Deformed Children a Smoother Lovelier Skin Job by Adrian Henri

Performed as part of From Mersey to Jersey 2017 (Jersey Festival of Words) & 2018 (Festival 35 Weekend - Jersey Arts Centre) by Nicky Mesch (Dylan Thomas) Juliette Hart (Al Gore) and Colin Scott (Gallery Magazine.)