This house

Council is example of bureaucracy gone mad
Council devoid of common sense
Different rules for different folk
Planners are sterile bureaucratic vandals.

Gateshead planners are philistines
Gateshead planners think 400 votes count for nothing
Thank you –
Not surprising to have more local support than elected councillors.

The buffoons
Can’t see
Won’t listen
Don’t speak

Your local councillors
Who do they think they work for
Council’s abuse of powers lamentable
Council are not even handed
Councillors are devoid of grey matter.

Wrong use of power
Planners cannot loose face
Surprise surprise this lot want our votes

This house is detrimental to the area.

From signs plastered all over the windows of a house in Gateshead, 4th May 2010. Submitted by Marika Rose.

Paternity

You
must be able to declare that
you
are the baby’s biological father,
or
married to
or
in a civil partnership
with the mother,
or
living with the mother
in
an enduring family relationship,
but
are not an immediate relative,
and
you will be responsible
for
the child’s upbringing,
and
you will take time off work
to
support the mother
or
care for the child.

On the HMRC Statutory Payment Pay/paternity leave form, page 1 (April 2010).

When I Saw It

I enjoyed this film when I saw it,
but it didn’t last.
It didn’t last…

need to cry,
don’t know why
when will the melancholy lift?

Two tweets combined from @drgonzolives, submitted by Liz.

The seven years invasion

I was in a brothel in Valencia,
on honeymoon (long story).

Drunk on a cocktail of champagne,
orange juice, and possibly gin.

We were there for the Fallas festival,
and mistook the news footage of the invasion
for televised fireworks.

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Poems from the Menu Bar #5

Illustrator/Edit

Undo, redo,
cut, copy, paste.
Paste in front,
paste in back,
Clear, find and replace.

From the Edit drop down menu in Illustrator.

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Teatime at Everybody

The cake

which my mama burned
is what is more delicious
than the cake of the store
of the throat in the world.
Therefore, daily teatime enjoys
itself very much and it is!

From a Japanese cake wrapper, February 2010. Submitted by Nathan Lechler.

Hearing Is a Way

Hearing is a way
of touching at a distance
and the intimacy
of the first sense
is fused with sociability
whenever people
gather together
to hear something special.

From ‘Soundscapes and Earwitnesses’ by R Murray Schafer, in Hearing History: A Reader, p.9. Submitted by Kate Guthrie.

A Certain Plant

I have written a monograph on a certain plant.
The plant lies before me;
I am just turning over a folded coloured plate.
A dried specimen of the plant,
as though from a herbarium,
is bound up with every copy.

From Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams: ‘Dream of a Botanical Monograph’. Submitted by Marika Rose.

Careering path

Intend to work
analytically, confidently

in
an ambitious and self
motivating atmosphere,

which would lead to
overall development
of my personality,

thus serving
the esteemed organization
efficiently, ultimately

paving a path to
a long lasting
and rewarding relationship.

A career objective in the C.V. of an applicant hoping to join my company this week. Submitted by Alan Mitchell.