Kerry Jackson Kay

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Kerry Jackson Kay Biography

I am a singer-songwriter, teacher and pathological misfit living with my wife and a large number of cats in Northampton UK. I've been writing and performing in a range of guises since the mid-nineties, including twisted tales in open mic nights as Quicksand Kerry, time as a member of Leeds goth band Zeitgeist Zero an extended stint as Helen Held, The Girl No Man Can Hold, the UK's only performing drag escapologist. Openly genderfluid with a dark sense of humour, my writing is inspired by jazz, punk rock, spirituality, identity, alienation and the absurd discrepancy between life and humanity as it's presented and how it actually is. Despite everything, though, I consider myself quite a positive person, believing that an optimist is one of the most subversive things you can be, if you do it right. My current album, the self-produced " Songs From The Age Of Human Error" , is out now from all major MP3 and streaming sites, I also produce industrial metal music under the name Player Versus X? (PvX?) . You can check out both, along with the other weirdness I've got up to over the years, on my main site at http: //www.kjkmusic.co.uk.)

The Best Poem Of Kerry Jackson Kay

A Poem To Be Forgotten

This is a poem they don't want you to memorise.
You will not be required to answer questions on it
Nor be expected to ask any of your own.

This poem does not demand exclusivity
Of your scholarly attention or intellectual curiosity.
Your freedom of thought is enough.

This poem is technically invalid.
There are no clever exploitations of syllabic forms, couplets, triplets or alliterations.
Call it an unrhymed tercet if you must
But expect resistance.

This poem was not conceived in the heart of an empire
Made great by conquest, suppression and slavery.
This poem will never be considered great.

This poem contains no stirring nationalism,
Pastoral nostalgia or comforting institutional order.
You may or may not consider yourself moved.

This is a poem they don't want you to memorise
But feel free to do so if you wish
And always ask questions of your own.

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