Keep Moving Don't Move

Close the curtains

Light the incense

Inhale the thick clouds with your eyes closed, your nose

Burns, on your knees

In the corner of a strange woman's room

Her naked feet like tree roots in this undergrowth

Frankincense

Frankenstein

Francophile

Philistine

Frankly, we are killing time

Wake it

Bring it back to life

Kneel

Bathe in warm water

Your bodies dirt turns the bath-tub as grey as these walls

Notice

Bathe at moon-rise and

Sun-rise and

When-you-switch-off-the-telly

Wrap your head in clean towels

Curl up like a found thing

A dead insect collected

Between the pages of an old book written in a language you can't read

Now dry the inside of your elbows in

Painstaking ritual

Three times clockwise

Three times anti-clockwise

Don't breathe in until there's no air left in your

Lungs

Keep moving

Don't move

Keep moving

Don't move

Seven point two billion humans

Seven point three billion humans

Seven point four billion humans

The rain falls like troops

Like troops

The rain falls

Open your coat in it, shiver and cough

Your skin's like a dead thing, dying

Your feet like pond weed, the rain falls like troops

Walk

Up the hill

Post pub trudge

Laugh to it

Live to it

It's coming to pass

My countries coming apart, the whole thing's becoming such a bumbling

Open the front door, your key is an arrow

Now turn three times in the hallway

Peel off your clothes

Socks last, socks last

Stand naked and push your twig fingers

Through the wet bracken that storms by your ears

Stand naked and shiver

Now dress

In warm things that smell of your

Body

Lie in a cross on the rug

Watched

By the dog, let his mild concern be

Comforting

As you

Stare

At the bottom of the chair

Drink rum from a curved glass that

You stole from a place that you hated

Eat raw food standing up at the fridge

Stroke the phone screen with your thumb like a

Mother

Trying to wipe clean the face of her only

Child

That blemish that black dot that will not come

Clean

The first sign of the

Plague

Absorb the ache of all your

Friends

And sleep with the light in your brain burning UV all night

Wake tired

Eat bread, eat oranges, eat bus stops, eat traffic jams, eat shoes, eat

Shop windows, eat the chair you're sitting on, eat the paperwork, eat

The table, eat the idea there was ever more than this, eat the beer, eat

The Takeaway, eat the toothbrush, eat the boredom, eat the breakup, eat

The phone she hasn't called, eat her ringtone, six times, six times and

When she answers eat the silence in your mouth, eat the pillow, eat the

Blankets, eat the moon, eat the screaming drunks

Eat the bad dreams wake up

Eat the alarm remember to chew

Are you doing this

Too?

Seven point four billion humans

Seven point five billion humans

Seven point six billion humans

Open your arms

And their legs

And your teeth

And their jeans

And your ribs

And their eyes

And your skin

And their brain

And push two lonelinesses together and create

More

Loneliness

Or create god and come inside

Each other

Walk through the city alone

In a stupor of love

Create god

Touch Everything

Nod at strangers like a daffodil with a severed head

Your face is a trumpet

Blow the futile brass part

Sit across your lovers lap and scream into their mouth

Where's love?

Create god

But where's love?

The last real pub in the south is surrounded by

wankers and they're coming in close with their cards out

So let's link arms

Be prepared to go down with your ship, your ships sunk

Be prepared to go down

Stick your hands out of the car on the motorway

Feel the wind pushing its face into your open palms

Keep moving

Don't move

Keep moving

Don't move

Keep moving