quotes

• Ozy


  'my name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, look upon my work ye mighty and despair'

  'lone and level sand stretched far away'

  'boundless and bare'

  'sunk'

  'sheer'

  'shattered'

  'frown

  wrinkle
• COMH

  'bandage up me eye with me own history'

  'blind me to me own history'

  mary seacole

  toussiant

  nanny de maroon

  shaka de zulu

  dem

  dick whittingdon

  robbin hood

  cow

  i carving out me own identity
• war photographer

  'they don't care'

  between bath and pre-lunch beers

  'half formed ghosts'

  'in the dark room he was finally alone

  from areoplane he stares
• cotlb

  'cannons to the right of them cannons to the left of them cannons in front of them

  while horse and hero fall

  someone had blunder'd

  they rode back but not the six hundred

  dactyle diameter
• soti

  blasts

  pummels

  exploding comfortably

  bobmbadred by the empty air

  huge nothing that we fear

  winds dive and strafe invisibly

  like a tamed cat turned savage

  you know what i mean

  slate squat

  fear air
• ex

  merciless iced east winds knife us

  mad gusts tugging on the wire

  bullets... less deadly then air

  misery of dawn began to grow

  all there eyes turned to ice

  dawn massing in the east her meloncany army

  knife us - nervous

  salient - silent

  sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence

  flowing flakes that flocked

  flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces
• prelude

  led by her

  horizons upmost boundary

  trembling oars

  voluntary power instinct upreared its head

  stepping, glistening, sparkling, leaving, howling

  so it seemed
• poppies

  all me words rolled flattened turned into felt, slowly melting

  reinforcement of scarfs and gloves

  selotape bandaged around my hand

  spasm of red paper distrupting the blockade of yellow bias

  i was brave

  the world overflowing like a treasure chest
• london

  in every

  in every cry of every man

  in every infants cry of fear

  in every voice

  in every ban

  mind-forged manacles

  young harlots curse blasts the new-borns infants

  charted streets... charted thames

  hapless soldiers sigh run in blood down palace walls

  marriage hearse
• emigree

  but my memory is sunlight clear

  it tastes of sunlight

  branded... sunlight

  november

  bright filled paper weight

  it may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants

  they accuse me.. they circle me. they accuse me of being dark in their free city

  city of walls