Tony Noon

The cities are cooling;

debuilding themselves
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We are post social here.


The music has lost but
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This grey morning smells
of oranges and wet paper.

Bigging up the dawn chorus
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Not knowing, is the way to touch a star.
Small and half empty you can believe
that across the field and up the hill
you could hold that white light
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I see the sunny days.
The sober managers of building societies,
banks, maybe. Button bright
in their certain trajectories
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Wanting to escape is important, of course.


Surprising how many overlook this point.
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He was playing a Joplin Rag.
Playing the first few bars
over and over.
As if he couldn't move on.
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As usual it begins with death.

Cops tearing around quiet corners
in hot pursuit of themselves.
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By the time you read this I will be miles away.
Not miles. That doesn't do justice.
I will be an immensity away. Let me explain.
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Rake them. Riddle sticks
through cooling embers.
Beds and books burnt
to blackened crisps.
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Somewhere on your dusty road
you crossed over;
left Woodstock for The Twilight Zone
to roll up and smoke into our late
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Light Holes.
Our galaxies of being swirl
and swing around them
like moths, sucked in
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Plato would have got it.
How whole lives can be lived
inside four walls while shadows
dance uncontrollably outside.
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There is no science to follow here.

There is just observation.
Eyelines free to roam, to ponder
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If you could see these lines
in three dimensions
you would see the space
between thoughts composed
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Those clanks and moans;
pure theatre for les autres.
Without the chains we are
listless. Creatures of air.
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There is sound here but no light.
Words mimicked with skill
are their own purpose
repeated rhythmically to browsers.
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I am watching the pigeons
brawling on brash cobbles,
dismantling crumbs from
take away food fallen from
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The cat was lifeless by the road.

It's essence was left in mid air
when it's trajectory was intercepted.
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Mister E, Master of Allusion.
His meaning hid in full view.
His references were out of sight
till the force was directly behind you.
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