Tuesday 14 June 2011

Message From Your Flight Captain


This is your flight captain speaking. We are currently flying at a height of approximately 32,000 feet, at a cruising speed of around 918 kilometres per hour, or for our northern passengers, that's around 570 miles per hour.
The Scrolls that you have been offered are for your reading enjoyment on this flight.

Oh Oh Oh 

Scrolling back wildly she came across some notes written long ago in a far off place.
The future is a  -was  a-  she flying or was she scrolling through the sky... scrabbling in her capacious cabinbag handbag for her art critics kit: mobile switched off, executive leather bound organiser with at least six names and addresses inscribed in red pen, make up bag,  loose lipsticks, the scribbled name and number of the renowned  male British artist she was going to interview in his new Camden studio; the scrambled number of the personal assistant of the "most famous living female British artist", whom she had hung out with, serenaded by the artist’s Dad in Sydney, and wanted to meet again, and the   
Dead See
she scrolls
the Dead See
our names
in every way,
from every passing day,
the dead call out our names.

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