{"id":1169,"date":"2008-02-20T13:08:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T13:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2008-02-20T13:08:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T13:08:30","slug":"three-poems-by-geoff-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/three-poems-by-geoff-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"Three poems by Geoff Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"

BEHAVIOUR PATTERNS OBTAINED FROM PRINTED CIRCUITS<\/span>
 
<\/span>Made up with Rimmel<\/span>
but the wires still show<\/span>
your skin transparent<\/span>
the flesh like Pears Soap<\/span>
you are a robot of the age<\/span>
fed by impulses from the media<\/span>
and radio waves from an environment<\/span>
installed and maintained by The State.<\/span>
CCTV spies on you<\/span>
watches your every mood and move<\/span>
its unseen operators pushing the buttons<\/span>
and moving the levers<\/span>
correcting any deviation from the prescribed.<\/span>
You think that you are your own person<\/span>
but you are not a person at all<\/span>
but a toy being played with<\/span>
by the spoilt brats of governance.<\/span>



SEAFRONT BRIGHTON<\/span>
 <\/span>
You have no reservations<\/span>
the signs in your eyes<\/span>
say Bed & Breakfast<\/span>
 <\/p>\n


<\/span><\/span>STONY PLACE (The Burren)<\/span>
 <\/span>
Grey mud<\/span>
over which someone has ridden<\/span>
a heavy bicycle<\/span>
 <\/span>
mud frozen into lava<\/span>
a huge rotting hippo or rhinocorus<\/span>
of a place<\/span>
 <\/span>
the ribs showing through the carcass<\/span>
flowers from the Artic<\/span>
and from the Mediterranean<\/span>
 <\/span>
like honey in the lion's entrails<\/span>
on the Golden Syrup tin<\/span>
both being visited by bees<\/span>
 <\/span>
It is a graveyard of history<\/span>
with floweres<\/span>
ancient bodies buried here<\/span>
 <\/span>
tombs of stone<\/span>
celtic crosses nearby<\/span>
inscribed by gaelic lorraine<\/span>
 <\/span>
daytime and the place<\/span>
may be lit by weak sunshine<\/span>
and camera flash<\/span>
 <\/span>
dusk and the sun dies<\/span>
with its blood light<\/span>
soaking into the limestone<\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
\u2022 Geoff Stevens is a regular contributor to IS&T – and also check out his pictures in the right-hand column.<\/span>
 <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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