All Poets Are Alchemists

London, UK - an impossible child - Thursday, February 23rd, 2006 : goo

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day six: 6.342km, 304.4kcal, 10571 steps)

and magicians and apothecaries of words and blood and love as it flows from me into you into me again and everywhere

john and his friend henry used to live here quite a while back. the parties were legendary as you can imagine, they would sometimes go on for days, dawn after night after day of dragons dancing and singing and kissing, john then got a few books of verse published and buggered off to nw3, never found out what henry did

bermondsey it scares me

white grounds of blue houses, painted and barred for your convenience
metallic louvres of air leading to gelding place: there are no handles on those steel doors, is there a code or a touch or a thought?

the royal marines with their high pitched ropes have taken over lilliput hall

once upon a time, your beige brick double glazed imitation cottage roofs came from ikea (inside your fairytales you play happy families most weekends)

bermondsey it scares me (everything is on sale in bermondsey)

i cant be going the right way which way wrong way turn the map around and around jamaica road is wide i like it, where does it go

on balconies: oh hello, putting your washing up? yes im putting my washing up while our caretaker washes the windows, hello, james, his poor wife is very ill, such a nice man and all, james, fancy a cuppa? let me finish this window first, is your son coming later? (fade out)

follow a path of dried leaves, crunching under foot, estate teenage boys, open the gate for the car, breathe in breathe out, this is no hellmouth, there was no cemetary here, no ghosts or crooked leylines

bermondsey it scares the shit out of me

and then i get to the river

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jack: thanks all, i can appreciate the prose more.

Jamie: It's you that is spooky

elaine: muahahahahaha! london's historical mojo

an impossible child: yup mojo's da word :P

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