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This poem was first published in Make Your Mark, Issue 7, March 2015
Subsequently published in The Frequency of God, Close-Up Books, December 2017
This image first appeared on Instagram
This poem was first published in Make Your Mark, Issue 7, March 2015
Subsequently published in The Frequency of God, Close-Up Books, December 2017
I am a thing / not a thing
elevated to the status
of object / product
a float between what
you’ve seen / thought you saw
. / ignored
the error of our ways
is the tragedy of our days
how long until O becomes Q
until the realisation gains a tail
& the question of de-evolution
is reconsidered by apes
on a production line
look, squatted in a shopfront
under discoloured blankets
the disgrace of our lives
thrown from the line
I am a thing / not a thing
Published in Page Seventeen, Issue 12, November 2015
Published in The Frequency of God, Close-Up Books, December 2017
burn away the wool from the head
leave the skin intact & brown
split the head into halves by axe
remove the organs but the eye & tongue
clean, salt, & dry for days
then smoulder on a cold smoke
of juniper, dry oak or alder
having been both salted & smoked
the head could be preserved in an airy place for months
to serve the dish
water & steam the head for three hours
then present with stewed Swedish turnips
& potatoes boiled in the skin
First published in Tincture Journal, November, 2015
[1] OECD Studies on Tourism and the Tourism Experience: The OECD-Korea Workshop, OECD Publishing 2012, ISBN 978-9264171923
[2] http://dangerousminds.net/comments/a_serving_of_sheeps_head