David Grundy, Austerity Measures

David Grundy, Austerity Measures. 57pp. Available now for £5.00 via paypal in sidebar

Plan of Action

(1)

speech imp-

lied beneath the sur-

face. charged up,

rip away the mask-

ing tape: assault & battery.

what lies beneath

the underdog, bed-

ded down. raise

the roof, higher

still society, bigger than our

human hearts, mend-

acious beyond belief,

it is a mouth opened

up to swallow us

whole. cost effective,

what is the least we can

do to even survive

with good conscience?

answers on a hot

plate, burning, big-

issuing forth.

spittle-fields:

I have shouted myself

horse

(2)

no

one in their Right

mind would even consider the

            con-

                        sequences/

auto-

            matic-

ally our hands grope the

big dicks pointing up to

the good heavens, monuments

erect & proud to be

British; beef

cakes fall          from the skies,

reaching

            for the imp-

ossible, dreaming in broad-

cast daylight; the first stone

strikes a chord, the rest form

a symphony, & now

our hands, tense with viol-

ence, blue with

rage, green with

envy, roam the road kill-

ing time & tid-

ying up after

(3)

who can stop the clocks

the measured tread

jackboots on Whitehall

release the tongue tie

bend bow & scrape trash

from soles, from souls

upsurge electricians wanted / con-

demn, con-fuse, flick the switch,

strike up, lift the band/stand

up & be uncountable

you can count on this,

on the fingers of one hand

(my education is a fist)

David Berridge, The Poet is Working

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James Davies, from 'stack'

from stack ii.

shiny industrial-colour red thick lacquered plastic storage box with rounded edges 70x50x50cm with rusty bent copper clasp. two hinges at the back of the lid, copper too, but painted red and inbetween the red plastic and the lacquer there is slight sparkle. sometimes it glows pulsates throbs a light which is also an energy; yellow or blue but never both at the same time or in quick succession.

a bird in the tree a sun

how is this shell next to this other shell

a room with lots of flowers in it

motorbike and man holding yellow patch next to it for a photo

16 t-shirts

a box that opens up and contains a colour

a bit of rock

green china

sky

green and black

oxygen

oxygen

a shower fitting two thirds up

there is a problem with an envelope

raininglight

a brick

i placed a spoon on top of another spoon and it fell off

i coloured in a whole sheet of standard white paper in blue using a blue crayon

dight

i tried to focus on a thought of a carpet and it worked

in the chair

some blue tarpaulin covered a bit of grass

18 plastic boxes variable sizes with lids clipped shut filled half way up with cotton wool on a 6 tiered shelving unit: metal x-bracket / plastic coated hardboard with wooden look finish

woods/woods

from stack iii

i decided to take another look at the orange couch

i arranged a box

green china lamp base

no bucket amongst many buckets

lemon                                                                                   _                            

hole in skirting board for television wiring to pass through

2 rocks

i put my hand up near a plastic box

octagonal yellow ashtray

near a bush

leaf sizing

tea spoons

there is no space round something on a wall

a tub the same size

grass near a late entrance

going upstairs i was puzzled

should i count each step a unit

the snow fell in a place

i sat down in the grass

i lifted a box

fountain

i drew a fox in the same box as a duck

i saw a fountain on a beach

next to some stones

lots of beach

wood

a piece of metal

outside a bottle

slipped walking up a ramp

a room with some flowers in it

i went into a room and had a look about a bit

two sticks represented a chinese gondola next to a mountain