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25.02.2025

SCULPTURE PARK - “MONUMENT TO EFFORT”

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A tree, held up by a metal arm.
No longer able to hold itself up

As it watches time passing by,
people moving on,
it stays the same,
branches not so strong.

I feel better now.
Now I find myself within this tree,
within this monument
to effort, natural and green,
not housebound
not housebound.

As I watch time passing by,
people moving on,
I stay the same,
branches not so strong.

07.02.2025

THE GOLDEN DREGS - GODSPEED TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT

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21.01.2025

THE GOLDEN DREGS - “THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS”

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The Company of Strangers is a business empire into which one might invest their best life years, best health, best thoughts, every last hour of daylight in the winter months, to expire, become surplus to requirement, served notice, redundant.

The Company doesn’t care about you but you are better than that. Godspeed The Company.

17.01.2025

OHTIS – “BLANKETS ON THE BLINDS”

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“This (putting blankets on the blinds, shutting out the world and totally avoiding everything) is a completely unsuccessful method of coping with depression that I have developed over many decades. It has gotten me through the worst of times, only to prolong them.” Sam Swinson

25.11.2025

THE GOLDEN DREGS – “DUST FOR THE BROOM”

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Things that I’d rather not know
Living anno domino
Light us up and keep us clean
Smoke to keep the demons in
A floodlit terrace with empty chairs
Hedged bets on ill-gotten wares
Change the wheel out for the spare
Still no hope of getting there