Ongoing sporadic journal of the overeducated, and underemployed. The title derived from Coupland’s description of cubicle land; the corporate ghetto. Random photos and thoughts. Left the ghetto, never happier. This still a work in progress

31 January 2015

Last night started watching Orange is the new Black. I thought after why do I like this show so much? It occurs to me , that Piper Chapman is every woman I have ever been involved with gutsy, smart attractive, felonious,(more than couple of you) has an ex girlfriend(of course.)I love you all, crazy , cool , sexy women make this veil of tears bearable
Sweet one, friend, lover, and comrade in arms.’ Just walk away from posers’, sycophants, and self-important, self-righteous old fucks. They are not worthy of your attentions.
You haver lived the life, and continue to live, dream, and be it. You recognise the sacred music. You both, create it and savour it. You and both have experienced the stigmata and screamed in ecstasy as it appeared on our arms and in our souls.
One day we will storm heavens gates armed with sacred switchblades, clothed in blessed black leather. Punks’ mobs, looking like a cross between the nomads of the “Mad Max,” and “Sid and Nancy.” Refusing to pay cover and demanding, drink tickets. Walking back stage, and chopping heavenly lines. Don’t be angry, but instead pity them, as they have not your grace, beauty, and talent.

30 January 2015

30.01.15
I’ve more secrets than MI6
And I thought that had been declassified 
So sorry
Loose lips  sink
hearts

29 January 2015

29.01.15
Cold war
Ice cold room, hot coffee
No ones winning here
There’s no heat just ice
And loathing 
Heat I get it’s what we used to be
Cold, detached loathing 
This is just 
An old war
When I leave
Not surrender 
Just acceptance


28 January 2015

28.01.15
Am I 
Still your favourite mistake?
Are we still cool?
Actually we have always been
Volcanic
Spontaneous combustion
No quiet longing
Sweaty chemical reaction
I love that about us
I love that we 
Don’t have to talk
Am I still your favourite mistake?

27 January 2015

27.01.15
I think of you
Your eyes
It’s a day’s work 
Looking into them
I see who you used to be
Who you’ve become 
People in-between
I see you changing as I watch
Speaking to me in the silence
When you look back 
What do you see?
Who I was?
Who I am?
Are you attracted?
Are you frightened?
Are you repulsed?
Can you see me?
Do you care?
Your eyes 
It’s a day’s work looking into them

26 January 2015

26.01.15
It’s not that you love my demons
You don’t it’s that
Sometimes your voice can calm 
All 
Of them

25 January 2015

Good Friday 18.04.14
Charleston Heston frees' my ancestors
The Angel death passes me over.
Does she not know how much I love her?
Her beauty flawless, skin perfect, and though she's embraced me many times, I always wake up and she's gone.

13.06 on our anniversary
I remember this day so well
Because I thought this time
You would stay
You held me for days 
kissed me deeply 
Gave me the lead jewel's I still carry
Alas I awoke to cacophony of tubes machines and crying people.
But you were gone!
Death 
the only face I wanted to see
And you abandoned me
I
24.01.15 on 25.01.15
This is when I come awake
Dark from dark
True Night from true night   
I never hid this
I wouldn’t  even if I could 
Don’t worry
The really
Cool thing
Is 
I fade to black 
Quick
I don’t look back 
In anger
I am who you think I am
Adieu Papillion






24.01.15
I hoped
Even though 
I’m  a picture
Of excess
I celebrate my darkness
Yes
I know the choicest parts of hell
I guess you’re frightened
I am not judging
I get it
I just 
As 
Faded and jaded as I am, hoped 
You wouldn’t
And  
Hoped you knew this Vampyre 
Doesn’t harm those he 
Loves

24.01.15 on the morning of 25.01.15 over coffee
I hoped,
Picture excess,
And whispered rumours
I celebrate my darkness,
I hoped you didn’t care
Yes
I know the choicest parts of hell
I hoped you weren’t frightened
I hoped you knew
That, I don’t judge and 
I hoped you didn’t either
I get it
I just 
As 
Faded and jaded as 
I am, hoped 
You wouldn’t be
And  
Hoped you knew this Vampyre 
Doesn’t harm those he 
Loves
I hoped 
That you would see this 
And 
Understand
I hoped you were
really 
My 
Friend

23 January 2015

23.01.15
Check mutual attraction
Check the pieces of our pain march
Check our politricks match 
Check  music, and art
Check we’re both cool
Check we’re both twisted
Cool can we just skip the rest
And 
Fall in bed

21 January 2015

21.01.15
I know you know
But this just isn’t
A good
Idea
It’s
Not even romantic
Probably
Because
Jaded and faded describes us
Volcanic, and possibly 
Satanic
Does too
Yes, I am a little
Vampyric
A cautionary tale
Of excesses
You
The stunner
Carnivorous
That woman
Both of us unrepentant 
this is a 
Bad idea


20 January 2015

20.01.15 later
Heart breaker
Life taker 
You’ve  been warned about me
Some of tat shiat  they talk on E 10th Ave. &
Kings Cross,
It was true.
Do you
Still want
To 
Play?

20.01.16
Who do you think,
I am, 
Because I am not
Sure
Meself
A Miracle
Or
A curse
I’ve
Been 
accused 
of both
Maybe you  could, 
Just  tell
Me
I’ll
Be 
Gone
By morning
anyway

18 January 2015

18.01.15
I love 
The way
You greet me
Like
I am some beautiful, talented creature
The way 
You call me an angel headed hipster
With no hint of irony, or sarcasm
The way 
You take me hand
The way
You’re as bright and open
As
I am dark
And obscure 
The way 
You walk with me
As if 
It was a rare honour 
The way 
You’re a little melancholy
As I walk a way

15 January 2015

16.01.5 later
I need a drink 
But something stronger would be nice
Moody reading Joyce
Listening to 
Billy Holiday, and Nine Inch nails
If I go out 
My fist might collide
With something or someone
16.01.15
I don’t own you
You Bloody don’t own me
You need him
You want me?
Now practise this 
Wave as I walk by
We’re neighbours in the same 
Manor 
Wave hello
And walk by
Don’t look back
It’s much easier 
Than you think
Love

14 January 2015

15.01.15
Sick days
Meant something different
But
Nyquil still works
I laugh and think of
Tube  station Oxford ,
Walk to Soho

09 January 2015

09.01.15
Cold, and grey
and I
walk with you again
Through steel and glass canyons
a sick day
Holding each other
In urban armour
Black leather, and sunglasses
Past scathing gazes of
Bare chested amazons 30 stories up
Past nervous tourist
Home to
us


07 January 2015

Secret Agent Man-07.03.15
I kept your secrets, and then I keep them now
I loved you, and then I love you now
No, he doesn’t need to know
Not about where you danced, that you danced
Your girlfriend, our girlfriend
I see you
I taste your kiss
Her kiss 
Vodka and gauloises
I hear loud angry music
And I nod and keep walking
A stranger pretending
Your secrets
Safe

05 January 2015

05.01.15
never so alone as I’m
with you
Ice
Berlin in winter was warmer
Looks, and word you give me
I have been in friendlier battles
Never so
Isolated
Never so
Sad 
Never so 
In need of drink
Never so in need 
Of a fix 
Never so gone
As I’m with you

father

Our father's--.01.15
heavy smokers
hard drinkers
combat ribbons