letter to whoever

A SQUATTER'S THOUGHTS GEORGE'S THEATRE 2005

The Crofters have a dignified sounding name to be sure. These were Scottish folk who took over any abandoned house with no roof.
The term 'squatter' is used to describe cases of illegally occupied otherwise empty buildings. In Australia it was the way land was obtained in the first place, by remaining on it long enough and thus obtaining possession. Nowadays it is still used to describe people who occupy buildings not occupied by their owners. This can occur under English Law, though it has been a contentious issue over the years. 'Squat' of course also derives from the verb to squat, 'to sit with knees drawn up and heels close to or touching the hams', innocent enough in itself, yet which, to at least one childish mind, (mine) can imply squatting down on the surface of the earth to go to the toilet.
Squat is not even a word used in it's proper sense. It is much the way that squatters exist in this unofficial, transient way. So therefore there is this made up word to describe it. This is the only term in proper usage to describe the hugely varied lifestyles of people like me who live this way.
I imagine also that 'heathens', those people who live on the Heath (which is an area of nature cleared of trees) also had to squat in order to relieve themselves. It is also used to indicate non-Christian folk by Christians. This can be read as those who were there in the woods and glades before Christians and before Heaths.
Squatters last century were those that fought in the world wars and returned to no homes because of bombing etc. and had to squat in order to have any place at all. This was because the government under whose orders they fought provided scant housing for their returning warriors.
Both squatter and Heathen describe the likes of me, and many friends of mine, who may live in houses with toilets, or perhaps not.
It is not my objective to be puerile, merely to clarify terms that repeatedly and publically refer to certain lifestyles and which use of may create and perpetuate certain precepts in the mind.
My perogative is to squat in order to draw attention to environmental issues for this age, that otherwise may not be uncovered.
When I approached Islington Councillor Wally Burgess after a planning sub-commitee meeting concerning the fate of our grande and theatric dwelling, I broached the subject of squatting. He replied that it was illegal. I then corrected him , for this is not the case. It is legal under the charter of King John. Councillor Burgess then said was 'supra'-legal. Supra means on or above.
He must mean we get away with it but not strictly by the law. Occupying owned but empty buildings is legal. You will go through court and sooner or later be evicted by bailiffs.
I quite like it though, as it made me feel as if I was something moving with another law, a supra-squatter!!

During this planning sub-commitee public meeting it was decided that the pre-Knights Templar and true Elizibethan playhouse dimensioned octagonal building my friends and I are occupying, St George's Theatre 49 Tufnell Park Road would return to use as a church, and certain alterations be made to it's structure. Our resident ex-caretaker of the grade two listed building stood up at this point and told how that when he had worked at the theatre, Health and Safety would not allow him the slightest alteration for purposes of safety at height when working as a lightsman.
Therefore it was surprising, or not surprising that the change of use and proposed structural changes to this wonderful ex-church cum round Theatre got the go-ahead.
This could well be because the decision process happened too quickly to acknowledge the correct legal procedure customary for such proposals.
For some reason the chairperson declared that noone (exept themselves) was allowed to make a video or any other kind of recording of this decisive meeting, so no accessible record actually exists. Only the few people who were there know the speed that the issues were whisked through to make the bid legal.
This method of decision making seems to me common, which is disturbing as it is illegal. Though it pretends to, this process could not have properly consulted an appropriate catchment area of it's wishes for this significant building, though it says it does. It is of course our audacity to want to hold the place for our purposes, which are immediately for the community and the environment. A public pronouncement of the HOTR's intentions to do this was hastily and somewhat ostentaciously made a few days before the planning meeting, was pushed through the local doors.
Present that meeting were a planning professor, a knowledgable lady who had worked for Islington planning , who spoke out confirming, along with another gentleman, that correct court proceedure had in no way been adhered to.
As I mentioned, I am one of these 'squatters', but none of us go to the toilet over the theatre and it's grounds. We use the toilets, which, along with the rest of the building, we keep as clean as we can with our limited resources, for ourselves and our many visitors.
We provide wholesome , mostly organic food for guests that call by. It is illegal for squatters
to charge for this service, so we have to ask for donations. Not many people actually contribute to our 'magic hat', so you could say we do most of this for free exept that it comes from our own pockets and from what small amounts we accrue from donations given as entry for our different performances.
Performance!! Of course, this is a theatre, and the reason that I am here and hold any interest in this building is because I am a performer and St George's posseses unique and perfect dimensions condusive for this work. Though at first, we hosted several large parties with sizable sound systems, our in-house policy soon became subject to a Noise Abatement Order that says we keep under 85 decibels or be closed down. So it came to be that we do lower volume music and theatre, of a balanced political-spiritual environmentally aware outlook, using the present form of the theatre as just that. This we have dilligently stuck to. The place is set up for old style acoustic human voice resonances, which it does magically. I do not know if House on the Rock consider the immediately noticable sonorous quality of their building's inherant geometric excellence as of particular significance. If so, why are they going to insert a gallery and bang out a wall thus interfering with the already perfect shape.
In 1960 the Church of England decommissioned the building because it did not suit them as a church building. House on the Rock have also recently penned statements declaring their commitment to the community, that they will let the community use the place as a theatre at certain times for certain prices.
Holloway does not have a proper theatre and my stay here , along with fellow squatter caretakers is, in a real sense, to see that the law is being properly adhered to. Far from being illegal, or even a grey area in the law, squatting is legal and we know that by law, a council must replace a theatre if one is closed down and there is not another in the area to use instead.
The difficulty here is that councils do not favour theatre as of primary need in a community.
The late George Murcell, actor, who bought the place and made it an Elizibethan Shakesperian Theatre, instinctively recognised it's outstanding acoustic and sightline possibilities. In fact, these architectural considerations surpass those of the present Globe Theatre, constructed 1992 in Southwark, which has had to concede that it has poor acoustics and sightlines for performance.
Considering the past, it should be remembered here that in his own time, our now universally revered Great Bard Shakespeare was not permitted to perform his plays publically in the City proper and had to set up south of the river, in bawdy Southwark and theatre folk did not , unless patronised, have any standing in society.
Also at that time, we know that Queen Elizibeth the First had her reign and that she became a great supporter of the arts and theatre. Her passion for this is widely known and she gave permission for the great playhouses to be constructed.
That Shakespeare had to rehearse with, at all times, Queen's officers present to check nothing unloyal was introduced to the plays gives us a sign of Elizibeth's shrewdness and her awareness of the power of theatre to instill ideas into an audience. A genuine lover of theatre, dancing and the arts, she was of coarse also manipulative and cunning to use the theatre to project her own requirements for what the people should be exposed to regarding her public projection of propaganda for the growing Empire. She knew the power that performance has to influence people, and allowed John Dee, her beloved, trusted servant, also renouned alchemist, astronomer and architect to design the marvel of the London playhouses with the specifics he could access through his vast knowledge. So it was with mathematical information forgotten in this modern world, Dee created the playhouses to allow a human voice and form give proper theatric expression to the gamut of human experiences that is a great play. Through this geometric design, and artworks said to have existed upon hangings from the ceiling that depicted the procession of the equinox and the astrological heavens, the inherant oneness of humans within the greater universe, refered to in Shakespeare's words and stage directions was there to behold. These measurements of stone architecture are taken from roots in the work of the Roman architect Vetruvius and also in those that the Knight's Templar retained in their buildings after living 90 years in the Dome on the Rock, Jerusalem, which was the old site of the Temple of Soloman itself. It is a place purpose built for making music dance and dramas of and for the spheres, at once universal and human, micro- and macrocosmic. That is it's significance.
Seven playhouses extolling these qualities in their architecture were build and used to great effect for performances by the King's Men and other legitimate companys of actors.
Soon, however, the Puritans destroyed all of these buildings and acting became largely illegal again. The dimensions of sacred geometry used by Dee were lost, the Elizebethan age where art,theatre and dancing flourished ended.

Yet we learn that this building we have squatted somehow posseses the same measurements as those old playhouses. The integral, proportional measurement is a square of 72 feet
that forms the basis of all the other measurements.
Surely this is of note to somebody who cares about theatre nowadays. I think it extraordinary that we environmentalists are using a building perfect for projecting our ideas of a better future out to the communities of London and beyond.
It would appear that the council draw a blank here.
In some accord with this down the ages, very soon after Murcell opened his theatre, the council of the early seventies did not share or want to help his cultural dream. Though it became world famous none-the-less, and had television film Shakespearian seasons here which broadcasted our Great Bard's hallowed words to audiences who would not have seen it otherwise, the council didn't consider it
worthwhile, or financially viable or fit for anything it must be concluded, and helped this status by withdrawing it's funding. Such authorities, it seems have not cared for theatre down the years, as I have shown, and now this is no different.
Now the legal term for my existance is 'squatter'. This legality is contested by good councillor Burgess, who spoke of being appalled that we should be in this building that he incorrectly described in the paper as a 'church'. He also said we were not local. This is incorrect as well. I was born next to Hampstead Heath, where I was living nearby in a caravan until I came to St George's. I regard the building ,
as it is, as a great treasure in my community.
Our agenda of theatrical goings on with environmental emphasis far outstrips the councils efforts to fullfill the recommendation of the Agenda "21st century" agreed between 179 countries towards sustainable developement, a.k.a. survival in the next century through awareness and action regarding global environmental issues.
However, my status as a 'squatter'/Heath en who happens to oppose the conversion of this precious theatre, may put people off, as if people like me are not eligable for the proper legal procedures. This is why a friend with money and position did cause the judge to remember he allowed us an appeal, when before permission was witheld.
This theatre is in fact what is called 'strategic' by the greater council of London. This term covers far a more than local catchement area and is strategic in the sense of offering culture to a very wide area.
St' George's Theatre can easily become a centre for an area certainly as wide as North London, notwithstanding the greater area of South England and visitors from the rest of the world.
I wish only to draw attention to the lack of a full public announcement of the intended conversion. The planners declared that 200 leaflets to some local peoples houses, had been given out. This, it was said, was above the requirement nessicery to inform the whole community.
We squatters have been spurred to action because this process has not allowed people information or time to full consider the implications of this rushed decision to convert. In other words, if Wally Burgess says we are illegal, one has to disagree and simply say by extension that his council are behaving illegally.
Though I may make enemies by this, it is not my intention. I am thinking soley of considerations of an proper base for a sustainable future that the arts nowadays must champion and display to the population, seeing as the authorities are avoiding the issue and keep evicting us and not dealing with the issues that we are highlighting.
I enjoyed talking to Wally Burgess. I have tried to speak to the members of the Nigerian Church, but they will not talk. This makes my mind wonder why exactly they won't discuss these with anyone exept their solicitors. Of coarse I must irritate them, because we are in their building. However, I am truly of this area, and though a squatter, I, and many many others of this area have an opinion that they need, or did need to listen to, seeing as it is required that the catchement be informed and consulted about their wishes.
As for us squatters I would hope this to continue as a treasure for the common the un common and the heathen people, the uptowns and downtowns. That through it's future it can assist in drawing people to a better understanding and to take and inspire action for our common environment with the dream we must sustain to have any future.
I have nothing against Nigerians, I wish their country could be a happier place and love the work of their poet Ben Okri. I have sent many prayers over the years for the tribespeople of the Ogoni and Ibu and others who have lost lives and land to the oil industry takeover there, which is deplorable to me.
Many squatters have little money, often not favoring work too much as it inhibits time we can spend at saving small environments here and there, that for whatever reason, we feel are worth saving. We are not allowed to charge normal rates because we are only squatters.
As a sprawling environmental network for 12 and more years, it cannot be said that the Rainbow Circus has made any money through state backing. I do believe the Church has not been operative as long as we, yet it has much more established financial connection.
I feel it is imperative for our collective future on this earth that inspiring centres such as St George's appear and flourish. Just like Queen Elizebeth who used theatre to help create the empire, so it shall come to show people the way to a better future

whatever happened to the atomic children?

Chapter One:
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There was a knock on my caravan door. It was Coleridge.
“I rang up James. He said you were in. “he said.
“Come in” I replied” would you like some tea?”

We sat on the floor and discussed various events of the past 200 years since my friend had been alive.

Coleridge was very enthusiastic. He had come over the Heath from Highgate in the moonlight, sensing the arrival of some new work of greatness. He was very interested in the recent activities of such resourceful souls who daily challenged the state machinery of banks, companies and governments.
Already out of hand in his own time, it was certainly not past the power of his imagination to accept my descriptions of modern day logo fronted institutions with purpose suspicious and members dispensable.
“ ‘Tis a poison world indeed” he ruefully commented after hearing salient news
about the national grid, food and pharmaceutical industries, genetic engineering and now this new nuclear energy fuelled star wars plan. “Wanton
abuse of the Earth’s bounty that takes of Her treasures and splendor to make
it all a deadly foulness”
A dark cloud passed over his capacious mind for a few moments, then he looked
up, eyes a twinkle.
“Ah, ‘tis but to be expected. You could see it coming, it is only a stretch of
the imagination away from what they were doing in my day.”
We sat in deep reflection. A moment or two passed and then I asked Coleridge
if he would like some mushrooms.
He liked very much, so I set a saucepan of water to boil and then simmer some
seventy little psychedelic liberty caps.
Coleridge laughed full hearted to see them. “Why, these little helpers wear
hats like those peasant souls of emancipation in the time running up to the
revolution. Before, that is, the new authorities took things from their hands,
and it was off with their heads.
They wore pixie hats tweaked and sown to a nipple on top, just like these
little things.”
He picked out a liberty cap that remained in the paper bag and placed it
between his thumb and first two fingers for examination. Thus held, he slowly
rotated it to see all the cap and then peered at the gill like under side.
During this process a wry smile launched itself slowly across his face.
“And all for mischief and inspiration. How did I fail to realize this in my
time? I must be dread inobservant.” Another cloud swiftly unfolded from a
nearby recess in my friend’s mind and Coleridge stared through the window into
dark reveries that looked beyond my powers to endure.
Coleridge seemed suddenly locked onto a downer, so I put a JJ Cale CD on and
he instantly snapped out of this downward spiral.
“Saved by the DJ ” he laughed.
Some minutes went by.
“Tea?”
I poured 2 cups of the slightly foul tea.
“Lovely” was the reply, eyes looking for sweetener.
When the tea was cool, we sipped, then gulped down our brew, which threatened
to make us urge.
Some moments passed in silent observance of the various bodily sensations of
the liberty mixture encountering our stomachs and bloodstream. I began lengthy
preparation of a long stemmed pipe that had been with me for several years,
for use on such occasions.
Within 20 minutes we had begun to sing, to murmer gently with no words a song
to honour our meeting, the night and the moon lit Heath which we would soon
stumble out onto.
I handed the pipe to Coleridge and lit it as he sucked. He held his breath for
ages and then exploded in a fit of coughing and smoke clouds. Recovery saw the
Bard giggling with watery prism seeing eyes, swaying only to fall sideways
onto my beanbag.
It was my turn to draw a huge lungful from the pipe.
“Woa” I exclaimed with smoke, after holding my breath 40 seconds, yet not
coughing.
The Hempstead shag, grown nearby on the Heath brought on the mushrooms. After
ten more minutes of the atonal drone, which rose to outsize laughs and
cackles, and fell to gurglings, we spilled out onto the Heath. It was glowing,
so we followed a shiny little path to the top of an escarpment near Whitestone
ponds from where we could gaze opon the whole of London Town, sprawled about
the Thames Valley below.
Noting first how the cityscape resembled some molten compounds seething in
some alchemists crucible, we picked out famous landmarks, Samuel the older
ones, often commenting about such and such a building now gone or obscured by
modernity. I, without pride, pointing out the new.
With the ground sensuously trembling beneath our feet and air oscillating,
generously frilled with faerie crenelations, and tickling us without malice,
he began to explain.
“The reason I have come here is that several disembodied friends of mine have
expressed their feelings and indeed fears about a great number of the issues
that the more aware and awake of the gentlefolk of your time are concerned
about.
“They have sent me as a representative-of-continuity-from-the-past to show
that there is an unbroken line of dissent to overbearingly materialistic and
exploitative authoritarian conduct. Behaviour that is at expense of person and
environment. Does this ring any bells?”
The question of course hit me like a mallet on a gong.
“The mere presence of so-called free thinkers indicates, to a mind open with
possibility, that cherished dreams of freedom nurtured within Thought may
indeed become realities even though present obstacles seem insurmountable.
What is needed is consistent and imaginatively executed action, organized yet
not centralized to any one group or individual of command.”
I stared at my erudite companion as I added up his language like a sum.
“There are possible routes we could take, as you know. Though it could be
argued it is imperative to avoid total annihilation, this Eschaton is also
open for profound
transformation.”
“Meaning?” I queried.
“Meaning that death is not what we have been sold and that a poison can also
be a medicene. In many cultures, death has been a beginning, is another facet
of life, which, after a period out of Time as we perceive it, actually
precipitates souls into existence, restoring one for the bodily Incarnation.
Within the destruction of the old civilization are seeds of the new, growing
to rise phoenix-like above the ashes. You have heard of this kind of thing I
presume?”
I don’t know if I made a gesture, I was kind of gripped.
“It’s true on any level, this principle, it’s alchemy, it’s science and
physics, it’s common sense.”
“Whose?” but on went my mentor.
“I do worry about the half lives, they are a terribly long time and what one
hears about the mutation is beyond Mary Shelley, Thomas de Quincy and Peter
Breugel. Though opium frequented me with eternal seeming hells well enough,
this would be a hell not induced and of the mind and body alone, yet one all
about the places we have walked loved and lived our lives the whole world
over.
“Nuclear winter” I spoke our, naming the fear. I sensed my companion was not
dimmed by the thought of this. His eyes simply burned all the brighter and the
tone of his voice lowered. With considerable mesmeric control he seemed to
forge deep girders of powerfully suggestive thought which he then welded into
my unmade mind.
“The fact is that we have existed with these ideas appearing in us is
assurance that such notions have the possibility of happening, whatever the
forces around that seek to damn our efforts. Yet effort must be sustained for
this lonely seed to become alive and grow. Motivation and resilient endevour
are the order of this new millenium, as ever. It would be a shame to see it
all go to ruin, but I have a sense of confidence that stands up on it’s own
inspite of the apathy, hypocrasy and nihilism of these times.
“I think you are doing well, feel some hope is here. If I am wrong, then all
my deeply cherished Pantosocratic dreams are forever forfeit.”
Coleridge stopped speaking. We counted eleven or so flashes of light from the
apex of the pyramid on the Canary Wharf Tower dominating the London panorama.
I imagined London as a great diagram of lines drawn on some masons
architectural draft, invisibly but archly connecting up different sites and
buildings important in some way.
Momently, it seemed to be that hundreds of these connections sprang from many
angles in the City, from which some form of surging current instantly
enlivened itself as if through the synapses and neurones of an enormous brain.
A brain, it occurred to me, full of the control of evil intent. The vision
faded.
“Thanks for coming” I said eventually. “Surely it is a task a number of these
disembodied associates of yours must also hold dearly in their hearts. Those
who sung so lovingly the Earth’s praises in their lifetimes. What a lineage of
thinkers and doers have raised voices of concern over the centuries! With what
urgency now is the message to be heeded and applied.!”
Mr Coleridge and I drank in the view, We filled with momentary pride
concerning many examples of peoples resistance to societial laws created for
control contrary to needs and wishes of a common good.
Coleridge spoke. “ I don’t want to seem like an overbearing know-it-all, but
it is only now that people are beginning to come to certain realizations that
in my age were so hidden beneath the fear and religion of the time, that to
profess them publically were sure to get you enlisted in an asylum, or
otherwise gain dissapprovals.
“Even I, with all my supposed learning, observing and researching the wit and
way of phenomenal worlds, could not nessicerily apply the wisdoms I uncovered
to this world at that time.
“Alas my soul was cased in this body too haphazard. Though it enabled me thus
to see far further than my fellows, and to have so inherited a consciousness
willing and able to travel so far, it was hard. Oh unfortunate age with so
little use of it’s senses, Lost to any sense of the overall and absolute in
any normal day. Of the expanded within the mundane, of life beyond the
trammelings of both subtle and enforced methods of thinking Yes, I had a hard
time in the discovery. Is there another way? I feel not. Yet eventually, all
that is true becomes accepted.”
I piped up that he had been a damn good influence to many of us opon our
precarious journey through life. Further, that, faltering though had been the
way, with no foundation from his body of work, which was original, yet also
learned vastly of others, what smaller gleanings would now be the basis of our
general understanding. His understanding ranged as wide as had been possible
through all the sciences and arts. Bridges and latticeworks of his thought had
majestically and forever linked these antipodal truths and elucidated,
illuminating each subject three ways, as itself , as part of the whole and
somehow also as greater than the whole and sum of our present knowledge as
when peering beyond our known limits.
“We really just have to catch up.” I added, “Poets bring to home worldly and
other worldly vision, wisdom, knowledge and experience for a public which
perhaps strains to comprehend what is what from the separate boxes these
things have been placed in by society. Systems of thought and education
compartmentalize phenomena for the purpose of categorising, yet this leads to
alienation. Truth is there are no aliens, only strangers and the as yet
unknown, waiting, already present, undiscovered.
“Poets dissolve into the infinate and eternal at any given moment.This for the
purposes of their work, and essentially beyond most predjuces of the empiric
mind. Returning, more or less in tact, they can be inspired to create a
completeness in rhyme. Generally well before others they can envision and
popularize new horizons.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge gave a little bow and suggested we wander over to he
pond to read Keats’ piece on the memorial.We left the Heath and crossed the
road outside Jack Straw’s Castle.

Looking at the red poppy wreaths in the moonlight, I wondered why a friend
with the white poppy had been arrested, surely not for a breach of the peace!
Perhaps by breaching hate with thoughts of peace.
The thought passed. Coleridge was striding purposefully to the green area over
the road behind the concrete pond.
There were not many cars about, which was good. The drivers might have got
themselves confused had they stopped to question the man in white breaches,
old style leather walking boots, voluminous tatty coat and an eagle headed
walking staff I forgot to mention. The man’s old but still frequently flashing
eyes and floating, if white hair, belonged to a head that would most likely
have uttered congenial yet uncompromising words, a challenge to all
conformity. Sensing this perhaps, they stared from behind glass at what they
could not be sure of.
“Where are you going” said I
“Come over here.” said he.
Sat on a bench, intently staring at the moon was a man in a long dark coat. He
was eating chocolate buttons from a paper bag . Coleridge neared him and spoke
words of greeting in french.
“Bonsoir Marquis” was what he said. For some reason I felt my nerves set on
edge and for sweat to appear, moon bejeweled on my forehead.
“Bonsoir Monsieur Coleridge” said the Marquis. “It must be 200 years.”
“This is my friend Pok” Coleridge made a motion towards me.
“Alphonso de Sade” the Marquis offered his name and his hand, standing up as
he did so.
I shook his hand and found it firm, reassuring me against my immediate nervous
reaction.
Immediately I felt at ease. We all looked at the moon.
Eventually, when he had finished munching handful of chocolate buttons, of
which he offered us none, de Sade said:
“The moon, she tells me things. She turns me in so I can see there , then she
goes and I have to work out what to do next.”
We all shared a little laugh and de Sade spoke again.
“It is true what they say, most of it. I’ll not deny it. Why? How could I and
be true to myself. The world’s most infamous pervert restrained in prison and
asylum because They could not bear that He expose Them for what He fully knows
They were.
“Let me tell you that They were far worse!
“If my natural inclinations drew a perverse angle, then Their degree of
misdemeanour led off the scale, far, far exeeding any of my misguided
inclinations and influence over the lives of innocents.”
De Sade spat, away from their huddle, then regarded the moon again with
piercing eye.
“What some of us have to do to wake up.” He spoke with a quiet voice, yet his
words had
a force of engines. Many emotions seemed to pass through the man, seizing him
with power and passion that could have shaken a lesser man to death. Yet no
such lesser man was this and he conquered the mighty rage within to raise his
arms as a great channel opened up between he, us, the hill and the pond,
where three angels who happened to be there were in some way illuminated and
momently caught masturbating over each other
The light went out. De Sade thundered:
“Oh foulness of repression, fast gates on the loins of our conscience, idle
capability that dare not raise it’s face for fear of societies enfeebling
shame! Fie opon you !
“Haunted by phantom paranoias you have dulled yourselves like fools, attaching
blame to those who overtly perform what is done covertly within the deception
of Your sordid yet so elevated ranks. High standing Judges and Politicians,
Clergy and Generals, as I wrote in my masterpiece that for so long I thought
lost, which you can now get in paperback, you revolt me, you drove me ...to hell this past 200 years and still to the scapegoated life.
“I saw 3000 beheaded from my little window in the Bastille that looked over
that unsacred courtyard.Whilst fear filled avarice burned it’s hypocracy the
turned tables of newly assumed authority flowed with fresh blood, the
Revolution hijacked and the biggest paedofiles, perverts and murderers still
running around. I know their class and tendancies, whosoevers flag they flaunt
..I know them and what they do. Call me bad? That was completely understandable
but no comparison. If you think I should burn in one of the Hells, then have
I not already done so for my penance with hot purging and I am only just out.. So it is you can calmly
meet me here at all! Yet in my burning time, I peered through veils of flame
on flame to percieve deeper and yet more despirate dungeons fanning with
greatly amplified heats, designed by the Lords of that place to house sinners
obviously worse than I , for else would I not have been kept there yet myself?
There, spitted and turned like human boars opon monstrous shafts, living
spikes of metal, reside the souls of my former govenors, such as I have
indicated. Beelzebub and other denizens of Hells yet unnamed eagerly await
their turn at the handle. Close by, Mephistophelese Himself prepares the
basting bowl with the inflammatory venom of their own past lies and
deceptions.”
The Marquis cast a glance in the direction of Whitehall and the square mile
down there in the City.
“Wait and see, blind fools” he said.
“Not that it helps us or that I wish it, but wait and see, gullible power
needy public and private figures who have aquiesed with these cunning demons
in life. Wait and see what is revealed to You who would lock me away to
deflect accusations of Your own depravity.”
De Sade was getting very worked up, and out of the corner of my eye I could
see some of the demons beggining to crawl out of his imagination into our
world.
“I do not wish it opon you” he was saying “But you have precipitated opon our
whole earth a cataclysm of noxious industry. Satanic Mills! Look around you!
We are throttled by the Cities carcinogenic stranglehold. On every street, the
shade of media mind killing, the vengeful actions of dull mind to duller,
cycling great systems where honour has no place and devils are landlord.
“You have created Nature where there was no need for such a name before the
lancing of Mother Earth for iron, coal and now , worse things. You have
stripped and mined, created the iron foundry that begats the foul city, with
what recompense for hapless workers therein but ginhouses where you could get
drunk for a halfpenny, blind drunk for a penny.They just have more tax on it
nowadays.
You have torn and plundered this fecund and explodingly green and blue
beauteous sphere, the stinking factories and mills gouging scars for home and
worksites that evacuate their polluted waste and excess into seas and rivers
like so much chemical shyte.
Outside the walls is Nature , now a temporary arrangement. Nature, suitable only
for fucking with machines , raped for oils and minerals wherever possible.
Loud loud the engines and sour, sour the sight and fumes that drown our
memories of ever living with grace in this world.
De Sades voice had risen to a shreiking peak in it’s pitch and I could now
clearly see and smell a trough of flames with billowing acrid black smoke
appearing in my perifory vision. Horror filled, I looked through the curtains
of flame like an unholy of unholies, to see the skewered, tormented souls of
some people I didn’t recognize, and several that I did, from the TV I think.
They were screaming in agony and a vast demon stood by with a basting bowl of
boiling venemous words, which as it bubbled, frothed and spat so I could catch
some phrases that I did recognise from the tele opon the lips of politicians
councillers and though those paid to speak others words in advertisments.
Everything in this hell was revealed or was being painfully confessed through
the t orturous actions of varius devils dressed as S+M office clerks.
I have described. Now the head of the great demon began to turn towards me. I
saw the corner of green eye sending shards of lazering evil intent, slicing
through the dimensions between him and I with great ease.
De Sade was still ranting, though I could not now hear his words, the crackle
ws all around me, the sulphur in my nose and throat . I began to fully behold
the demonic visage of Beelzibub.
Everything in this place was revealed or was being painfully revealed or confessed through the actions of the characters that I have described .Now the head of the great demon began to turn towards me, I saw the corner of his green eye sending shards of evil lazering out of the abyss splicing atoms.
DeSade was still ranting, though I could not now hear his words. With crackle all around, sulphur in my nose and fear coursing through me, I beheld the face of Beelzibub square on..
He regarded me, like baleful fiends and monsters do in movies, pausing before they strike as if to give the protagonist time to escape.
I was however, parylysed with fear. Beelzibub’shead tilted to his left and them to his right. His goat eyes with the strange black oblong pupils opened and narrowed, allowing a momentary flash of the green light to illuminate the area by the bench. A forked tongue whipped in and out of his large crack of a mouth.
It was at this point that I noticed that Coleridge was not present. I began to panic, but could not move, like a rabbit prone in the beam of a car’s headlamps.
Beelzibub began finally to climb out of deSade’s imagination. It was too much.
“Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo”, I found the words pouring, or being drawn from my diaphramic depths without a conscious call. They arose infallibly in my time of need.
BEElzibub was now standing on the turf next to me, which smoked, but smelled sweet now not sulphuric. He wasn’t looking at me, the devilrous head, 10 feet above my own was looking towards the road.
It was Coleridge, smiling handsomely. Another strode willfully forward, clad with copious facial hair and blazing eyes as mad as Coleridge’s..
They drew up to our threesome and it occurred to me that deSade had stopped talking and was now gazing glowingly at them as they approached.
Coleridge spoke:
”Good company all, Mr William Blake.”
That I was the only one Blake did not recognize made no difference to the conviviality with which he greeted me, and I was soon feeling very at home among such distinguished company.


“Could the poet be a keystone sub-species of homo sapiens? The poet: an apparently useless creature, but potentially the saver of eco-systems.”
Johnathon Bateman, The Song of the Earth p.231

The poets drew together in a huddle, Beelzibub towered over. We made a low murmer, which became a roar, which flowed out from the one voice that sent us skipping off around the lawn doing cartwheels, hitchkicks and the like.
“ Keats?”
He was sat on the bench, coughing lightly into an embroidered hankerchief..
AS the moon moved across the sky , several more literary figures from the area appeared, some well known, some not. Of the well known I saw Byron and Sylvia Plath, also Rabinandrath Tagore, but there were many more that I knew or that one of the others did.
We all made a huge circling ring, holding hands and my mate Phoenix led an interminable chant about the earth and sky all being one with each other.
As we danced and span in a growing circle it became that we were all making a vow and were telling the land so with our light footfalls. We wove in and out of each other, we led off in snake like processions about the hill. We sent our intention into the earth,the only thing we could agree on was that we could all dance forever and have a world with no tax.
Beelzibub kept a beat, thrumming the basting bowl with a huge log he had gone off to find, which he had emptied out in hell causing a terrific amount of slander onto several politicians who shall remain nameless but who imprisoned a man for 18 years for speaking out on a matter of international concern beyond the concerns of one nation. Also it splattered onto some backbenchers who were roasting because they hadn’t stood up and spoken their minds but rather preferred to slag each and everyone off.
From time to time he twanged the 40 foot flagpole to a rhythm you could call, well devil’s music.
“Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo” I called out to that arch devil. Mr B looked through and through me, perceiving my soul and more. His head split into seven different pieces, but he grinned. Beelzibub was pleased, I could see clear through him as well and that devil relaxed a moment then doubled the beat in a kinky new cadence all of his own.
The dance became more and more furious, we circled this way, we span that way, we twirled each other around laughing, more and more furious, faster and faster until we all fell down in a heap.
After the spiraling dance and the heap, people and creatures slowly picked themselves up and shuffled home, or lay or sat around the Heath top till someone made a fire a little way out of sight. The dawn came eventually and Coleridge came back to mine.We had been talking about the fate of the Earth over a few pipes, it was about 7 in the morning when I announced that it was time to do my morning chanting. Coleridge sat patiently as I droned the liturgy and chanted nam myo ho renge kyo. Opon finishing, my friend opened up.
“That was tremendous” he enthused. “” How do you say that?.”
I explained that I use this, the mystic law at all moments I can remember to so as to bring the best out of me and extract the best out of any environment to create the best of circumstances for all people”
Coleridge’s eyes boggled even more than they did naturally.
“Is it possible to do all that in one go “he said “Where’s the priest, what are the rules of conduct, why not meditate instead, why chant, who pays?”
I told him I simply chant nam myo ho renge kyo to my heart’s content every morning and evening and any time I feel in between. It comes from the heart, and is called the Lotus Sutra. It is intoned for the benefit of the individual and by extension, the whole of society.
Coleridge had heard of the sutra, he had heard of Nam. He had heard of Myo and Ho and Renge and of Kyo, never of chanting it.
“So when you chant this, you are summing up the Buddha life in one phrase and bringing it into the physical world ,through the voice. The corresponding meta physical state of life responds to this call allowing our lifestate to perceive the limitless expanded states
that all is immersed within.”
“That is one way of putting it. What is awesome is the thought of your vast mental and meta-physical capacities engaging with the mystic law of cause and effect.”
“That is I presume ,is what the practice is all about.” Coleridge’s mind, though of enormous mental ability, could also move in a non rational way.
It could move in profound ways. That is something he is capable of which lies beneath the simple intellect. This is what made it possible for him to chant with me when I invited him.
“How does it go then “ he queried.
“Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo. Together?”
We started to recite the diamoku, or title of the Lotus Sutra, but as soon as we pronounced the first N of Nam, a great flash of what looked like lightening arched from Coleridge’s body onto my burner, up the metal chimney and out of the caravan roof. We kept going for the whole five syllables for I almost dared not stop, Looking then round at Coleridge, I saw he was completely lit up with coursing electricity from head to foot , grinning manically and now taking a deep breath of air to pronounce the next one.
My spine went electric, goosebumps appeared on my brain,I sprang up and out of the caravan, as my friend let a second daimoku peel out. This Time I could see the sparking raw energy light up the sky, as lightening, or something like that phenomenon By the time of the third diamoku, the lightening had reached a dazzling peak that surely could not be topped, yet it was at this moment that the entire sky flashed a white light that then splintered into a zillion shards of beautifully refracting rainbows.
One of these rainbows other feet fell somewhere down in the valley below and up it came a two gentleman that Coleridge was delighted to meet. They were William Morris the designer and Michael Faraday, the inventor .
We were all rather mindblown at what had just happened, yet there was no stopping Coleridge who was teaching the chant to his new friends.
We all chanted. The sky exploded with music and colour, the stones on the Heath rang with resonance, the lightening forked into an enormous tree shape reaching into the heavens yet which harmed nobody.
Faraday and William Morris had brought some plans of the city with them. They seemed particularly remarkable because , as Faraday pointed out, there were geometric patterns superimposed all over them that made their shapes between certain parts of town and particular buildings. The map also looked really new.
“What could this possibly be?” he mused with us.
“Where did you get it?” I asked.
“We found it just now on the way here”
“It smells fresh” said Coleridge.
“I wonder what it is? ventured William, marveling at the designs. “Look, it is all shapes and angles made from the positioning of all of these different places in London.”
We all looked at each other. Could this be a cosmically Xeroxed map of London as printed off by some mechanism of Coleridge’s inner sight?
I assumed this to be the case, and fell off to sleep for a few hours.

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In 1980 I knew that there were such things as atom bombs that destroy life on earth in about ten minutes. This knowledge had an influence opon the rest of my life as I attempted to make something worthwhileout of these circumstances.
My plan was to carry on with the intention of making good with tunes and lyrics to open up awareness of a common need to continue living. Precious little media seemed to be on the wavelength, but that was no reason to doubt. Were people really as deeply sedated by fear as it seemed? Numb with paranoia and insecurity not far beneath the surface? Everything reinforced these feelings, from the billboards and TV to the high rises and latest cars. The only things that seemed to reach over the gap to me was poetry and rock'n'roll. So grateful was I that I decided to attempt to give for others what had got me through my formative years.
It took years to establish what was not the prevalent mood of the times in the ultra consumer 80's. The ninetees were the time that the sufforcated notion of care of the environment began properly to recover exert themselves. I was pleased, I had prayed and formed the feelings in dreamtime that later appeared all about as I lived it.
Coleridge was always a help. He was before everything else for me. Such a mind, expanded far as a boy, then to collide with the major innovations in modern scienfic investigation as a grown man. Without him I feel many ideas would not now be about in this world, many connections of thought would not have been brought together, understood or extrapolated in the ways they were, to the benefit of us all in this present age.
His spirit of exploration of the near and far reaches has inspired me to this moment with the will to continue, and be amazed at what I find. Before The advent of psychedelic rock music in my life, there was Coleridge's Kubla Khan.
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately Pleasure Dome Decree"
This the fundament, the fountain of inspiration for me, others of my friends and associates, and I actually believe, all others who might deny it.
Making the Pleasure Dome is the work of the Tribe of people I choose to associate with, the physical and meta physical (as Coleridge so loved) fusion of the seat of pleasure, learning and survival in this age. This is why he appears in this story, this is where my ideas come from.
From Ottery St Mary in East Devon my story stems. That was also Coleridge’s birthplace where his father, who died when the boy was nine, was headmaster. I attended the same school; King’s, though it had moved up the hill by my time. Not that I was born in that part of the world. I come from Hampstead (Hempstead) in North London, a short walk up to the top of the hill from my caravan. At the end of the sixties I was 5 and we moved to Stanstead Essex for a year, then to Feniton Devon for six months in the house with the ‘tool gate’, a gate made of welded tools. Feniton is 6 miles from Honiton where we lived from 1972. Ottery St. Mary lies in between the two places forming a triangle.
The sea is not far away . Ten miles from Honiton is Sidmouth. Exmouth Budleigh Salterton, Seaton, Beer and Branscombe are other nearby towns along the south coast.
I once plotted leylines of this area on an ordinance survey map, and found the whole area to be criss crossed with them. I just took a ruler and placed it along the line of any churchs old stone crosses, straight sections of road, fords in rivers, tumuli (burial mounds, Hill forts (usually along the edges of them), crossroads, anchient trackways and spiraling bark on trees.(You can’t see them on maps.)
The quantity of the straight lines I began to find was staggering. As a collection they were strewn about seemingly like jackstraws, yet this did not alter the fact that every line was composed of land features from an old age set in dead straight lines.
They were everywhere. I was amazed. I wondered what other age it had been that had this arrangement with the land of their birth. What mind had placed these edifices so strangely mathematical across the surface of the land?
These thoughts had been prompted by my father and mother who would take me and my sister to places like Maiden Castle in Dorset , Uffington White Horse, Wayland s Smithy, Avebury rings stones and Silbury Hill, Glastonbury Tor or nearby Hembury Fort near Payhembury, Devon.
I would stand on top of the Round ball Hill in Honiton and gaze at the landscape. This hill is a ridge with a roundly shaped end that faces my parents house. I have stared at it since early days from the front window. It still looks to me like it comes from another land. It could have been smoothed off by anchient people. From Roundball you can look across town roughly south and you will see St Cyres Hill, Then straight ahead, Dumden Iron Age Hillfort, topped with still surviving tall elm trees.
What other ages had this land known ?I had wondered this, staring at the new estate built opposite us on land we had known up to 1980 as three fields with a farm that had no electric and used one legged stools to milk the cows.
My mum told me once to appreciate nature while it was there. I wasn’t very old, but I took this to heart. In fact, it influenced everything because there is nothing more vital than our environment. I also remember from earlier, in Hampstead , in about 1968, sitting at the top of the stairs and saying I was starving , then having a second thought knowing that there were people who were really starving.
Informative moments. I also remember having a bath as an infant and hearing what must have been Bob Dylan. Some line rhyming “brain” with “drain”. It had to be Masters of War on the radio.
I set out to walk the anchient way in a modern world. We understand spiritual warrior to be the creed of this age. What other way could there be at the dangerous beginning of this atomic age?
If the world was potentially about to explode, what were we doing here with our time? Largely due to my father again, I had come across all sorts of helpful literature. The ones in bookshop remainder buckets were generally the most interesting to me. Books on ecological living , world mind, and a particularly weird and intreaging one called An Index of Possibilities. In its chapters were tales of other forms of consciousness, other forms of power creation and different forms of electricity. It commented on the lives of Faraday, Nicolia Tesla creating free electricity and Wilhelm Reich with his orgone acculmulators much influencing the wanderings of my mind over the next years.
Deeply seated in me is the positive forward motion inspired of these sometime repressed sciences , and from these influences a new paradigm has formed.


Coleridge and I had the idea of meeting up with a few of the others down at Mudshute, on the Isle of Dogs, where we felt we might rearrange the blueprint that John Dee, court magician extraordinaire had pocused up the English Empire with.
Several friends of mine would gather there from time to time down there next to the city farm in a loosely ceremonial way. The first time we met up beforehand to prepare at Dave and Cathy’s house, Mandala records, where I had the good fortune to be able to record for a number of years with my troupe Spacegoats under the good flag “Music can help heal the world.”this is a motto which either has the “help” in it or not depending on how passionate a day’s music had been.
Suzanna had told us that a gentleman representing the Hopi nation was coming to town, an Earth healer called Roy Littleson. He is not actually Hopi, but he is the adopted son of Elder Grandfather Titus whom he survives, now to hold healing ceremonies in a variety of ways often featuring incantation, sacred tobacco, shells, feathers and crumbled stone.
Phoenix had chanced to come by Dave’s house. It was curious that he should do this, because Roy was commencing a healing that night that he called the Phoenix Ceremony.
As was often at Mandala, there were hosts of wonderful people passing through, often from different parts of the globe. And at this time, Hiroki Okana, his wife and his Japanese minstrels were staying a few days, so they were to come along.
At the Phoenix ceremony, held in Dave’s front room, Roy prepared a special table that was to act as a form of Tardis to dissolve the boundaries between life and death and all the limitations we imagine in this world. On it were arranged all the offerings of a tribal mind expressing the intent, in the form of the Hopi Cross, of the prayer behind it. We sat in semi darkness in Dave’s front room as the characters appeared.
Roy talked us through the various stages a soul goes through in death, and how there are many lost souls who have not died properly from this world, who are released through the ceremonial burning of votive offerings. As the ritual climaxed, we placed small star shapes we had made from thin wooden spills into a small bowl of flame opon a sand bed at the centre of the table , Roy would tell us how millions of souls were being released from limbo as we did this.
Afterwards we had some wine and food and set to planning our day out in Mudchute next to the city farm across the river from Greenwich. This is a flat open plateaux, formed in one area into a relatively large amphitheatre. A raised earthwork rampart wall girdles the whole. At one point on this perimeter is a small concrete circle you can stand on, which , we heard, was the very spot that magician John Dee, in the employ of Her Majesty Queen Elizibeth of England, summoned up the British Empire.
We were to go to the Meridian line of Greenwich mean time in the Park, dissolve some boundries, then sally down to the Isle of Dogs for a big stomp of the rampart wall and then a circle of us people out under the sky to indicate to everything from the heavens down that the old hierarchy of power was shifting on now.
We convened by the dock with the Cutty Sark , joined by Caras and Raga waited for Zeg to turn up, then dove into the tunnel reached by a liftshaft that stretches under the Thames. Raga had brought a fifty foot long Rainbow Dragon banner, bearing the seven colours in bright material, which was rapidly unfurled along a line of ten people dancing skipping and singing as we went.
Reaching Mudchute we walked onto the land and spread about exploring where we individually wished, reconvening near a small tree at the base of the earth perimeter wall some moments later. Raga and Hiroko, Hiroki’s wife laid out the colourful banner carefully in a semi circle on the grass.
Dave said something about the power of a circle of people and making a strong wish for a better future free from war. People stood in a circle, held hands and listened to what he said with the wind blowing softly but quite cold around us. Then Roy spoke. He told everyone that a great Eagle had spoken to him in a vision and placed a rainbow opon his forehead, whereupon he could see for a while with the eyes of a Sky Elk , who see All things for what they are. When the vision was over, Roy said he had known a path that would lead to a correct understanding of these times.
Taking a pinch corn from a little belt pouch, he held it aloft in his hand, and spoke the words
“Uru no kava ee takkee towa” and instructed us to repeat after him. Shaking his small gourd rattle, he chanted for a few moments and every one made quite a good job of the words. After this he lowered his hand and let the corn feed through his fingers and out opon the wind. As it scattered opon the land Roy asked us always to listen for the spirits of the ancestors and what they wished, for they would soon be our children.
We walked up the slope of the earth bank joining the path that goes all around the site. As we went, a discussion took place about Hopi Prophesy and the unfolding work of people like Roy who tour the world with one mind; to spread understanding of the possibility of earth healing and survival beyond our present stasis.
Talk turned to the origin of the Rainbow Festivals, now recognised by Congress as a bona fide tribe. These had started in Arizona in 1970 around the time when the great rock peace festivals of the sixties created Altamont and stars like Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin had just died. In the aftermath footage of the Isle of White Festival film of that year we hear the transformed blond haired presenter/promoter saying with feeling that it had felt like the last great festival of it’s era.
Did he know that Jimi was about to die? Did everybody really, somehow? Janis and Jimi were soon both dead. Jim Morrison died the next year in Paris, as the story goes. All three had played at that festival
Who said that Hendrix died the day that Glastonbury festival first started, is that true?
Anyway, both in England and in the States, Europe and much of the rest of the world, festivals of this nature had established, and were developing from this point. The Rainbow Festivals set up that year and since then the government has had to conceed those people tribal status. Thus Congress is effectively acknowledging their recognition that these hippies must be the Ones spoken of in the prophesies from those tribal people whose land modern America’s forefathers had violently claimed two centuries before.
The prophesies have been directly responsible for Congress acknowledging the Rainbow Tribe and they had been passed down, kept intact by word of mouth into the present day from a thousand years ago. Similar prophesies exist among peoples of many parts of the world. You may of heard this:

When the Earth is sick and all the creatures are dying,
There will come a tribe of people of all cultures and creeds, who believe in
Deeds and not words, who will restore the planet to it’s former beauty.
They will become known as “The Warriors of the Rainbow”


I mean many of my friends, including me may well shy from any mention of rainbow, for a plethitude of reasons created by human foibles. Yet I doubt any would strongly deny the underlying gravis of these words.

It seemed clear to Roy and the rest of us that the society around us was all separated up numbed into consumerism and with a broken heart, and that England had gone out into the world and made war to build an Empire.
We neared the place where John Dee was said to have done the deed and solomnly formed a circle around it.
Clouds passed over the sky changing light on the ground and we stood in silence.
It was some time before Roy began to sing a little song of his teaching to the world. It goes like this:

Wake up wake up wake up
Wake up to the rising sun
Listen to your heart
We are one we are one we are one.

Roy said that we should forgive of the past and allow the unhappy souls to be able to properly die, or be reborn. Whatever state they are languishing in, disincarnate ones can be helped on their way by our ceremonial thoughts and wishes. He proceeded to walk to the centre of the circle and produced more of the wood spills that made the stars for burning. A second Phoenix Ceremony with the little bowl of fire occurred near the spot and we all made stars and offered them to the flames with positive wishes for all generations alive or dead.
Dave spoke again about the family of different people all around the planet thinking about, feeling and taking action to create what we want for a sustainable future, using all our diverse knowledge from our different cultures to understand perhaps in the way that the Sky Elk showed Roy, a correct way of understanding on this Earth today.
It was quite chilly, but we all stood as a few other people spoke and then began a low chant, a ringing earth tone voice that rolled from our mouths onto the ground.
It lolled and rolled over the grass and down the bank, it toned a few feet into the soil I expect. It made worms aware and the birds heard. Do I think a rainbow appeared at this moment.In all honesty it is probable that one did. In fact, do I have memories of being followed by a sequence of rainbows since one I have half remembered from earlier when we first met up at the dock?
We usually finish circles with a powerfully ascending vocalization, then let our held hands shoot above our heads whilst letting go a loud shriek or moan and then putting your hands on the earth to “ground” ourselves.
Much laughs and happiness at this point as we break up and start running around or talking with someone we haven’t said much to up to this point.


After some time exploring, we headed to the amphitheatre, marveling at it with a non- tobacco spliff that was going round. We foresaw ceremonies and plays that we could do there and crouched down out the wind in the cut away recesses.
Passing by the goats at the city farm, we championed the rainbow banner on the pavements of the Isle of Dogs, boisterously introducing people to our vibe as we strolled by. It was a bit dangerous with the road junctions at points, but we made it back to and down the lift, through the tunnel and back up again into Greenwich. I think it was still light.


The Hopi way asserts that there is always a way of averting a worse tragedy. There is always something or things that can be done to make a critical situation turn around, even at the last moment.
The Buddhism I practice concerns itself soley with that which converts poison into medicine. This works on a personal and at the same time on planetary levels. Another way to put this is to say you are changing bad karma to good fortune.
I personally do not believe in luck any more. Neither can I accept chance, because there is no time for it.
That we must live to make a difference if we want to survive is the basic undertone. It is what the prophesies are about and it is the reason for anyone being politically correct .

After I had introduced Coleridge to the delights of Can and The Incredible String Band from an old cassette, Faraday and Morris came round again and we talked late into the night pouring over our map with fervor. We discussed plans for the proposed trip to Mudchute amphitheatre, where we though to take some measurements.

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Some tin pot theorizing on atomic children.

I expect you were wondering if I would explain my title. The answer is that they are us. This is because we now live in a man-instigated atomic age.
Yes, radiation exists already in the universe, we never created it, just studied it .
The science, which was conducted mostly with the highest of spiritual and altruistic ideals, got taken over by the wartime military authorities and the arms industry.
Result? Cold war. Nuclear proliferation and a world in fear.
There has been conventional war the whole world over since the world war two. The first one was billed “the war to end all wars,” with irony that smarts up the century. There has been no war in mainland Britain or the Central American States, but these places have made many, sending thousands of soldiers and weapons out regularly to create foreign policy under the name of peace keeping. My friend Venus put it this way;
“Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity.” She has a point, in fact I know several folk who have employed this phrase or one like it. I would add that
The World War against Nature and poor nations, has been going on since Constantine and got amped up after WW2 . This war blasts poor people from the land they come from and then removes any sellable resources such as oil or uranium or tin or diamonds from that land. Whatever makes the owners of the weapons happily richer and able to make or buy new weapons to keep the pressure up.
Those like myself, with the relative yet suspect good fortune to live on land already leeched for its valuable minerals and metals, with an economy capable of bombing others first in pre-emptive strikes, need not worry unduly about being attacked, because we have huge armies and armaments to secure what we have won. We have our role cut out for us: We are consumers.
In the country I live we have enough money to buy what we need. This is painstakingly arranged for us by multinational corporations who have generated more than enough cash for our needs through big sales like arms manufacturing and legal pharmaceuticals.

Third World War is kept going by millions of people going to work for the people with the money and resources that if we recall, have been stolen from the poorer people and their land.
When we go to work, portions of that money goes into tax, which is spent on roads and hospitals and such useful things I am told. We are told we need these things. I don’t agree, though I know that people want to get about and we often need to be cured.
I am sure people feel it is important for councils to build new playgrounds for children and for this to be done, you need to tax. That I think playgrounds suck as does the whole urban sprawl may make people view as me being totally off planet. They couldn’t be more wrong. It is just everything.
A lot (the majority of ) tax money goes into buying equipment for war. Deals occur on an international level among people of all nationalities with the largest sums of money anywhere passing through banks.
This spells out the finance. The result is death and refugees. Also there are matters of land contamination and other scars inside the lives of decimated communities that daily endure the memory and consequences of war.

The consequences of war have in all ages been designed to be severe. With this nessecity in mind, innovations in war have always led the edge in technological advancement. That is to say a lot of time and effort has been put into development for the purpose of war.

“There has always been war and it will always be always be” is something that people often reiterate in a resigned manner. It is repeated especially by those, whosoever they are, not necessarily the fighters themselves, but by those who are paid the most handsomely to keep the war machine going.
That this conflict has been going on in different styles for a long long while does not mean it will continue tomorrow. This does not inevitably follow.
Now around for sixty years, as well as all the madness, the Atomic age has ushered in new forms of thought, out of necessity as old ones have been blown away.
Mahatma Gandhi gave his life to showing a different way a way of non violent resistance even with the simplest means.
We are having to find out, without jolting standard repeating reflex responses, how to dismantle the mind that made the machine that made this mad one.
That could be why Phoenix and I use the phrase “Other Worlds are Possible”
(That is correctly put a slogan of the present era as I type)

So how can we put an End to War? Is this of prime concern to us children or not?
Who admits to themselves that the scale of destruction with nuclear weapons is beyond our earthbound minds to conceive? We could not survive long enough to philosophize about it. We would be gone.
That would mean that war actually ends, but only because the whole planet creatures and people have turned into severely radioactive dust in space.
So then could we have small nuclear wars instead that only destroy bits of the planet. Thus tradition could be kept alive.
Depleted Uranium has already been long in common usage for tipping weapons, so this is already small scale atomic war. I read that on a poster.
Maybe we could carry on with small scale atomics and keep off the bigger ones. Then war could continue way into the 21st century and beyond. Yes, and when alien beings attack earth, we can use the big atomics because they will be tracked and attacked first out there in space safely out of our atmosphere. Tax money has been allocated, the plans are drawn up.
I don’t see it though. It is one or the other for me. Even by 1960 as I read somewhere else, there were enough a bombs to destroy the world 20 times over.
This is severe and every person knows it.
Being too much for our circuits to rationalize, this forces a new thought world to come through from the noonsphere. Does the following seem naïve and inapplicable to you?:
That the men and women that live in this thought world get what they want by behaving non violently. They use their imaginations, they inform us that it is possible. With non violence we have a chance to not escalate our squabbles up to war level simply by doing something else instead.
I don’t see we can survival in this atomic age in any other way.
Due to human anger being evident in this world and this being portrayed continuously in the media, people are led to believe this is how to behave, and tend to. Yet we can tend another way, we absolutely have the capacity to try something else even when angry and especially if we have all our lives fed with propaganda promoting war.
So, in this argument, the seed of not fighting somehow grows a world where war is a thing of the past and our missiles have become kiddy cruisers.
What’s it to be then,survival or extinction? Not a lot to extinction.
Conversly, survival would of necessity involve deeper understanding of the atomic world we have opened up. I for one am intrigued by certain possibilities that my imagination plays with. This is what this book is about.

We first few generations of Atomic age children must somehow be equipped in our DNA to respond to and survive the momentous advent of nuclear weapons. On some deep inner cortex we have the means to do this. It is in fact, I shall reveal, already emerging from life through our actions however small.
I am placing these stories in from of your eyes to illustrate this point, as it makes up the whole of the narrative. I want to show of something worthwhile in these times, where that started and who it comes from, why it exists and what it brings to this world.
Specific measures to bring about an end to war, primarily for me that is employing the strategy of the Lotus Sutra, shall unfold naturally within the narrative. The need for some excellent medicine in these circumstances is not to be overlooked. Surely it is a question of what is necessary to get a job done. You always need the tools and know how. Or does it all just happen because it just happens. I don’t think so.


Who presently bears mark of the children of an atomic age? At the very dawning of it, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings in Japan come to mind.
Ukrainian people live with Chernobyl, meaning Wormwood which as you may realize makes an appearance in the Bible book of Revelation, with ashes falling from the sky. An eschatonic prophesy if there ever was one became real enough and fearful with wrath on the morning of the 26th April 1986, when reactor 9 caught fire sending windborne radioactive fallout across Belarus, into Europe over the rest of the World.
People living near these places are still being born deformed and rates of leukemia, disputed to be caused by radioactivity are high. My friend was a soldier and possibly has what people call Gulf war syndrome. This, everybody knows, means sickness brought on by exposure to DU.

In the manufacture and proliferation of Atomic bombs there are built in possibilities for use of fear propagandas to repress the spirits of nations. Of these, Mutually Assured Destruction is about as comforting as it gets, seeing as no one would be left to experience any worry.
The Cold War, when superpowers stood each other off with threats of annihilation, were accentuating their power by playing on common fears, including other hazards of radiation and mutation.
With the world clouded in such fears, people are arguably much more manageable. It is a standard tactic through the ages
Yet the mushroom cloud itself is surely a portentous symbol of more than obliteration. It also represents a mushroom, let’s say a psychedelic one. This could be seen as portending a new time of sub and supra- atomic levels of understanding our universe, that were obscured to us before. That is the nature of states resulting from the ingestion of hallucinogenic fungi, the connection with deeper recesses of earth knowledge through the mycelium in the soil. An opened psyche can see what is there, can move through the curtains of manipulation drawn by overlords in the human sphere.

It is an old hippy adage that says that LSD, LySergic acid Diathemol was the antidote to the destructive potential of nuclear bombs.
It was certainly being developed at the same time, its effect experienced first during the same week as the first 2 explosions in fact. However, before the bombs were used, the same substance does not appear to have possessed any psychedelic properties. This may seem a bit strange but it seems LSD became psycho-active only after the bombs were first used. As if it were potentialized by the blasts.
Scientist Albert Hoffman had created the stuff, in Basel Switzerland, but it remained in his laboratory in a phial until some of it got on his skin, he started tripping and took a fabulously strange bike journey. It certainly hadn’t done that when tried before the 9th ofAugust 1945.
The generations conceived from this time have grown up in this atomic age. The first were the so called baby boomers, who grew of age in the sixties and all that.
Do people listen to the opinions of hippies? Do hippies get generally derided nowadays because they are old, or did their ideas become so normalized over time that what was far out became part of the fabric?
Certainly, their era made things much more interesting for the atomic children. Ideas were bounding about in the 60’s. Though they were not nessicerily new ones, novel concepts spilled indeed into the popular culture and so into public imagination.

This new thinking suggested that the accepted reality of the pre-atomic ages was not so and that the findings of modern physics and likewise old mystical religions were quite similar and had relevance in the modern world.
Suddenly solid ground does not exist as it did. It swirls in a cosmic tapestry of swirling atoms mostly space. Phenomena such as ourselves occupy space for a while and are never solid in the sense of being able to continue to exist forever. Everything changes in the phenomenal world, things grow old and cease to exist. Where does it go to? The material world reveals itself as truly part of the invisible worlds. Our take on the nature of reality has been irrevocably torn apart and we have had to make new parameters. Eminent modern physicists and mystical researchers conform that these new ideas are strikingly similar to very old ideas around in cultures across the globe long before our modern times.
Psychedelics have arguably been significant in the popular seeding of these concepts, allowing us to peer into what we are made of. They have blown asunder the restrictions of the intellect and conditioning into some wider reaches of consciousness since adapted broadly into culture today. Before, only the priest or his equivalent could have such knowledge, and they were given it by God for the benefit of others. Those common Others were not supposed to have visions. Only the divinely chosen, probably well paid had access. The divine role of honor was concealed and the path to God restricted for sinners, who were on this earth to toil for their sins living in fear of god . The Way had been designed so and probably was intended forever to have remained as such.
Yet the modern age has blown this thinking to bits.

So if acid appeared on cue as some cure for the bomb in that it facilitated an equivalent inner explosion of potent realizations, previously unrealized possibilities of being, a chain reaction of mind that keyed into sub-stratic worlds, what can we expect? A greater knowledge of life, featuring survival through exploration of further places to go?
Is there potential for more keenly understanding the nature of our universe with an exponentially released consciousness? I feel so.
Put it this way; I don’t think I could overcome a nuclear explosion with my expanded mind if it happened in my face, but there are good things that have come out of the hippies.

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It wasn’t long before dawn. Coleridge and I were scrambling through
the undergrowth of some dense woodland near a stone cross we couldn’t find.
“How is it that love is bittersweet?” said he, grasping hold of a root that enabled him to get a foothold on a earthy incline.
When he reached the top of it I wanted to say “I’ve nothing to say,” but I couldn’t. Instead I gazed around the 270 degrees my neck can manage to turn through the dark
“I was lost in real terms and love no less than any other area, but it was worth it How could one such as I survive at all were it not for the spirit of will.”.
It was not far to go now .I was thinking of someone I loved very much . The moon suddenly bore down on us, pouncing from behind a cloud.
"Ah, the love interest" said a voice that seemed to come from that cloud. I looked at Coleridge, who seemed as surprised as i was and the both of us felt sheepish. What else could be said? We pondered our love and were found wanting. I went on a trip.
Sitting on the tree she was, in that season of youth that is unmistakable, but which you always miss at the time. We had got to know each other tentativly and had opened up enough to share a smoke and go back to each others homes. She was petite, dark haired and lovely, the tree under which she sat, wierd with many branches.
There existed a continuum of feelings between us, the tree and the rest of our surroundings that I can never forget, so perfectly it was etched on my memory from that moment to this. I look around at young couples and wonder if this might be their moment , hoping for them that the feeling remains longer than for me.
We shared a youthful summer, or rather from Easter to Halloween, during which the tree rooted itself in my soul as a friend forever, one older and more knowing. The girl and I had good times and bad times as all couples do, and "parted so hard" as it was for the subjects of "Goodbye first love", by the String Band, the only piece of music ever to adequately reach the particular aching in me for her. So that summer ended and my teens drew to a close, cutting sharply on the tapestry of my life's emotional line, which since has been somewhat more tattered.
I think back frequently to the many details of that time, and generally, difficult emotions rise, mostly of a cut-offness that is impossible to compromise. Any thoughts flail about looking for a home and have to be dealt with like so many needy mouths or people looking for somewhere to stay. I have grown adept at dealing with them patiently, without disruption to my daily patterns, but this does not make the feeling any better. Most of my present day interactions are twisted to a greater or lesser degree, by the inappropriated feelings due to this loss. Finishing with someone you love is easy compared to a life where you have seemingly ceased to exist in their eyes. Now that was twenty years ago and yesterday. As Cat Stevens was heard to cry out, "The first cut is the deepest" (Baby I know)
Coleridge was a little way off, looking for direction standing upon a large mossy stone looking off somewhere into the briars at first glimmerings of dawn. However, it was to no avail, the area we were in was completely confustulated by the wild growth. I knew his own emotional life back in the 1800's to have been very fraught and unhappy, not that this had hindered the progress of his mind it seemed; We had a certain understanding.
I looked at him as he extricated himself from the foliage. A dawning of some kind formed inside of me as I felt strangely liberated for a few moments from physical weight. My body suddenly experienced a release of tension and I was in several moments at one time. The overall sensation a good one as of a conjunction of love and physical release, an access of a sort to a region of pure and sunlit asexual orgasm. There was in fact some beautiful sunlight streaming into our hidden away woodland catche.
I fancied myself on a river of one of these beams, coloured by the vibration of my thought and arrowed to a specific moment in time where all the emotion was floating in a mesmerising sea of consequences, and I , free upon it as is a point of sunlight travelling through. I thought of the love, a tear formed in my eye and fell to the ground.
Unsure where I was for a moment, I started to walk, and found that a wall of thorny bramble was hiding a passage through the undergrowth. A little way led on, a twisting track made by some badgers perhaps; a route from barren feelings to the heart it might be. We both walked along and came to the stone cross we had been looking for so long.
"Here we are at last!" I exclaimed, and sat down in a clumsy way at it's foot. "Hallo cross, pleased to greet you."
Coleridge produced some bread and pate, and I lit up a pipe, this one smaller than the one previously mentioned.
He produced the curious map of London that Faraday and Morris had given them. As he carefully spread it out over the ground, I found a candle and lit it, but Coleridge stayed my hand and snuffed it out.
"Watch for what you don't know" he cryptically instructed.
I watched and saw immediately that the map illuminated itself. The eerie dawn light helped but it was no illusion. The glow came from the lines that linked up the different sites across the paper . Barely discernable in the light, these lines were actually alive and pulsating. We looked opon a micro London, lighting up the soil beneath it into a translucent phosphorescence.
"This is a vision of a future, the memory of a past" intoned Coleridge. "I have thought deep about this and find it by far the most fanciful and thereby the most appealing proposal"
"We could be looking at the arrangements, preparations, made upon the land of and for another technology.
"A symbiosis fusing means of energy and production, and the environment where this is occuring. In our case, the Earth, specifically here, on this map; London."
The light of day was getting stronger as we spoke, my mind phantoms were clearing and I could now focus now on what Coleridge was revealing.
He explained that he had been in discussion with Faraday on the nature of these seeming electrical pathways on the map. Of this Morris had commented that though at first sight presenting a chaotic form to the eye and mind, these resembled patterns he percieved as being that of a natural incidence such as he might like to use in a design.
I could see the High Street potential in this , but kept my thoughts to myself.
It was as easy to believe Coleridge as to believe that the stone cross possessed an earthly energy tangable to human sensitivities.
What was it all for though? What did they mean by another technology? My imagination could do more than ponder, for my companion was outlining his ideas on this, dealing with natural electricity and forms of water powered motorisation.
Coleridge talked for ages, the most of which is readily available in certain publications found frequently in book bargain buckets.
Significantly, he announced that he had been in touch with Sir Humprey Davy. Davy and Faraday had of coarse been colleages and friends in life, but are said to have suffored a parting of ways due to differing views on the nature of science and reality. Davy was ever the more mystically orientated, fully engaging with meta-physics in writing poetry as much as in his inventing and scientific reasoning.
Faraday largly dismissed this outlook, preferring to be more rational and empirical. He turned the scientific discovery of this curios electricity into the practical application of an actual functioning motor, through alternating the currents. Working at the Royal Institute, and running the Trinity Wharf lighthouse research centre for thirty years and developed electrical and chemical research comprised two portions of his working life.
Davy invented more or less everything, discovered the aneasthetic and trans-physical properties of nitrous oxide, better known as laughing gas, a surfeit of which, it is said, did for him.
So it was that Coleridge had had to send out a major plea into the etheric that he might have audience with Sir Humphrey. When they connected, Coleridge reported that Davy had been sitting on a cloud and would not be disturbed until he realised it was his old stoner mate STC.
They made arrangements but Davy was still pretty far gone. He would arrive "after a while" , Coleridge assured.
By now it was fully light and the luminosity of the map was fading in the daylight. Sitting next to the stone cross however, was an experience wonderfully charged with subtle energies that caressed the spine. It was as if we had entered into the world of the map, made real opon our location there in the undergrowth. The world of other electricities that Coleridge was intimating in his descriptions and conjectures on the subject.
I could feel a wonderous openness in the small of my back. It charged with a feeling of release my physical and sensory fields to such an extent that I had begun to disengage from inhibitative pains and aches that keep me contained in an singularly physical awareness of Self. I had expanded beyond this now and a form of me, not wholly mind, not wholly body, was floating with contentment in a space that also occupied by the stone. For a moment, the suggestions Coleridge was planting grew around me like a quick forest of psi-powered vines and silvery-golden boughs of knowledge.
After a while , the feeling passed into a new awareness , where I felt more deeply contented than I can generally access. This feeling has occured once or twice in dream or in waking, and it occurs to me then that this is what is below the surface
in our consciousness.
This is what we are when we allow our stress levels to be removed; namely an instinctual love and knowing of our own bodies, a fearlessness regarding the expansive and awe-inspiring natures of our world and a joy at the differences in each other.
Coleridge also mentioned at this point one Dr.Wilhelm Reich, a gentleman whose science was seemingly analogeous with our investigations in this very interesting and profound area. He had had his work burned by the American authorities, who seem to have been concerned that Reich's work on tension release was a threat to society.

We rolled up the map and walked for a while through the undergrowth by means of this path until we returned to the familiar surroundings

critical songs

WHAT WE ARE MADE OF

Is it really true that you care
about what we're doing in this world
Or would you just stare
And walk on


Take a little look beyond
The confines of the mind
Though you might not like what you find

It's all more messed up
Than we thought at first
Consequence of greed and industry
Has gone from bad to worse

the Bio Tec
Industry
Better take it Carefully
Carefully


Stars and spinning galaxies
Had it up to the ears...
If we don't restore harmonics now
We gonna pay a dreadful price
And spin out like those stars that we are.


When we took a look you know
All the walls came tumbling down
And echoing round came
A familiar sound

It was the sound
Of the human race
Touching down
Technology unsurpassed

Oh your wonderful machines
You have created
But what of the Gods
You have not placated?

The atomic set
Must not forget
What we are made of
What we are made of
Of what we are made.



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SPIRIT INFORMED

Chernobyl brought the deadly rain
Bitter remedy for change
1980's desolation
Made us make the make the earth equation
Made us take the earth equation

Nuclear power's ugly face
Threatens all life and the human race
Spirits informed set to work
Taking action to alert

People to the danger
Awaken to the cause
Multinational Corporations
Don't care for Nature's Laws

It's asking for a negation
On all future generations

What we got is pollution
We need a radical solution

Or are we headed for mutual destruction?


And so what of the fate of earth?
Will it's people see the worth
Of joining hands across all nations
Solving conflict situations
Solving conflict situations

Turning poison into joy
For those who with science do toy
The alchemy appropriate
Is transforming every part of it

Sacred medicene is all around us
Celestial music sound surround us

And growing through the cancer greed
By nurturing our cosmic seed

Let us use this connection
Our true life force connection.

Growing in our daily lives
We shall find a new sunrise

Certainly in for a surprise.

























Nuclear Train rolling past the children's playground
Down behind Camden Town Market on it's way through King's Cross.
Off for reprocessing
That's how nuclear waste becomes nuclear bombs

DO NOT BE AFRAID
Even though the Newsflash
Programmes you to fear
You are being programmed to Dream
You are being programmed to be a Seer.

I am the Child of a Faerie
An original soul
A faerie child a changeling child
So do not treat me as you would your own sick selves

Spare a thought and deed for the Pixie Creed
Of delicious aromas and hearty fare
...not polluted air
leeched and drained of nouriture
Where chemical fields of bleached earth
Are sectioned off in prison cells
Are men insane they are not well
What faerie sees faerie will tell:
Do not desicrate the body of the faerie land
FOR FEAR OF A GODDESSES REPRIMAND.


If you want to find the secrets of all time
and what makes one man's mind
turn against another

If we want to solve the problems of the world
Is it this or that issue, or a state of mind

When we are together to draw the strands to meet
Which comes first the best or worst
And how can we complete

When we are together and draw the strands to meet
Is the world we create we create a world we dream
And stand now at it's gate

So seek what you can find
In our universal mind
I cannot point to criticize
But just to open lives

I can see an End to War
And find out who we are

You may wonder if my mind is like yours
I come from the land of cause

In this strange dimension
We open many doors

It is music
It is threaded words
It is motion emotion and symmetry
It is the story of a growing Love
That is all between us and oblivion, it seems.

Let us enter t

Goatborg Unbound

GOATBORG UNBOUND



Good evening ladies, men so mild
If you will bide with us a while
We'll set a scene, perhaps it's true
I hope you don't mind if I do
Involve you in a crazy loon
'Bout horns and goats and lonely moons
About a road, though mentioned not
That runs now right through Camelot
This company'd like it to rot
And grow once more as it was before
But with stronger faith, a mystic law
And carried on from tale before
We will speak in metaphor

And hope it's good and hope it's fine
And you have a jolly jolly good time


The Argument

Camrat:
Spitting vermin
You break my brain with your jealousies
Break my rat's back with that boar's bone
Make requests that I would die
or tire myself direly doing
Oh Queenie, I love you
You command me with your tiny eyes





Queenie:
Curb your mouth
For when do you care
To think of me
Waiting in this warren
While you yatter and boast
In your so glorious position
Of your General Directorship?
You speak of love,
You speak of power,
But you're just a wimp
You've gone limp
Oh do something interesting for a change.


Camrat
Oh, but Queenie, I've brought you
Black jewels from the darkest caves
You have hanging in your pit
the skull of a great Huruhog that
twenty of our honoured Starats were
skewered in the hunting!
In my youth, the Earth balls of the
Gorgon cost me a finger and an ear
finding for you.
Oh Queenie, why don't you let me in?


Queenie
Godzollocks eat you, fouleye
Bore me, would you, with your babbling
Go out and do something useful!
Go out you
Go out and...
Get me the..eye of that dragon
(she points)
I fancy its shine


Camrat
B-b-but that's a hill Queenie


Queenie
I don't care, show me your love
and bring me the eye


Camrat
B-b-but it's St. Catherine's Hill


Queenie
I don't care, why don't you act
as big as you talk in public
Go on, off you go


Pok
So off our dampened Ratking goes
Tails down, his saddened (???)
to anger as he sees his workers (???)
The Starats


Camrat
Set your machines to max
And chomp this chalk
We've a new job
More tar to eat and shit
Coat the land in our black robe
Which is our true purpose
In life
To envelope all in our black dreams
And hopes
Our culture thrives
On tar
So eat you all


Pok
And so the Starats set their
jagged machines to the full
And strained,like any
ox at the yoke
And juddered into
barbarous life
Swinging grinding spinning
toothy discs and tools
That bit the pure ground
And sprayed white and green
While the subject silent screams
And would you know why
Why happens this?


Chorus
This ancient ground split like a lip
This Donga marred by scars


Pok
What machinery, malignant tin opener
of what imagination's creation
Has Done
This?


Camrat
(laughs) Why, it is my lovely Ratgolem
Homonculine mechanical hybrid of
sorry meanness


Chorus
Has love done this?


Pok
Is it he, she, they, those
Is it me, you, who?
Who does this thing
that rends the land?
What sad culture is wasting
It's clothing nature?
Tears a womb to find the baby?
These Starats just don't know
how to dance!
Do you?
* * *


Awake



Pok
So look now, they are dig, dig, digging
And why do they scowl as they work?
Why is the music of their tools
so harsh sounding?
And why do they slander Camrat?

But
What's this?
What has the digging revealed?
A black stone edifice that will not break
though all the thresh of Ratgolem
Be against it?
The Starats gather and dig around the chalk.
Hours pass
and they loosen its grip
on what seems to be a statue.
Find, all around, bones of huge creatures,
dinosaurs let us call them;
All around,
poking out of the white landscape,
casting shadows.
Freaky stuff, the Starats murmur.
They clean earth from the image
A sultry woman
clutching a horn
How long has it been buried here?
And how ever they harness Ratgolem
how they cannot move
Its bulk
Stuck.
So they cut on on on
A wide berth around the hill,
this "eye of the dragon".
And how that shuddering
passes through the landscape
shakes, quake-like
the trees and animals
Touches the stone we have found
And moves that too.
Maybe there is a dream stirring
For look - truly the eye of
this stone woman opens
A light of life is revealed
A ray of light that leaves the pupil
A tear!
Opening once more from trance death
Stoned life awakens
After long tombing


Chorus
Why!


Pok
As tears dissolve a chrysalis
Old muscles find clench
And a pulsing brown body
Stands once more
Her lightening eyes look all around
Seeing Breathing
And in one succinct move
has raised horn, and begun to blow


Birth of the Cyborg



Pok
Zellgthuureel is dying
Come to an end
(He always loves this part)
Coasting 'round on a surf, the old goat
comes close to Earth's orbit
When! (FX horn)


Zellgthuureel
Wow, that put me nightlight out!


Pok
There was this sound that seemed
to curl space.
Spiralling from a patch in the blue
Caught on its current
Zellgthuureel sniffs...
It is good
This kind of thing turns him on (FX clicks)
So down he swoops
Eyes training like an eagle's
Looms to the land, big shadow
Seems to envelope England
with its goatish shape.
Diving down, following scent
And there, sunning herself in
suburban green gardens
Mellise is greeted by the
Curl-horned and metallic
Sky-goat mmmm
Invited to lay among the grass
And seed new creation
Soon they achieved their ecstatic goal
and smiling, Mellise watches as
Zellgthuureel turns to carbon
then dust
and so nothing
* * *


Pok
People in the towns were generally
not aware of the sound of the horn,
Yet Inamorata blew for days
and days
And only those with open ears
could hear
For only those with open eyes
could see
What only those with open hearts
could feel when
This pain of eco-systems collective habitat
found EXPRESSION
In the undeniable hallooing (???)
Of Inamorata's performance.
How she churns life from depths
Of mud and decay
Taps hidden, lost roots,
sacred juices
To nourish green growth
In this desperate hour.
When rats of doom
Make black the land
With their tars -
Her sap will generate foliage
and sinuous wilderies (???)
To crumble it up again
For what mischevious ace has this
Recovered beauty got up such a
luxurious sleeve?
Rogueish woman, what are you doing?
Are you not seducing the land?
"Bring forth your sons and daughters"
You seem to cry
For those with true ears, eyes
can see
And unbound by mind
Have sought and found
Seem to be gathering in the hills
and downs, living in woods,
bringing materials, constructing...
Interesting
To see these folk again
They do seem familiar
Good to hear their music as they
come, courageous, come over land
to Inamorata's call.
Knowing this pain
Come like rain
The characters! Look at 'em
you brigand folk!
Binga Bonga
Dinga Donga


Chorus
We came to Camelot
Come to the true King
Has he got up yet?
We got him a horse


Pok
And so these of old England
see the spoiling
See the dinosaur bones casting shadows
And how their wise rage fills
the air with powerful sounds
Summoning spirits
and coming over the hill
Into old Twyford
Vibrant throng mean business
These people hear the machines and
Go crazy!
Ratgolem and the Verminions, those
smaller earth-tearing machines, are
charged by the colourfully rioting band
in a wave of exotic sounds
Ratgolem teeters, and is down
Pushed by pixie people
With piskie power
"Improoving" as they put it, the
Car-ma of Ratgolem!


Nargourd
Why'd'you do this, anyway?


Ratgolem
Don't know; it's my job


Nargourd
Come, you're gadonga'd mate
Come and live with us,
Ratgolem, have a gourd


Ratgolem
Thank you


Pok
The Starats themselves were more of
a tricky one, to say the least.
Many, it seemed, suddenly turned
and became like a wall of fur and
sleek. Rodent features gleamed
Malignant in the moonlight.
That moved as one towards the
Binga bonga people, brandishing old
bones and loose bits of metal.
People braced themselves.
But who could brace themselves
enough to withstand Inamorata
as she once more blows the huru horn
And a huru horn
enhurus people
But this time it was different again
She blew with pure passion
Brought colours never seen
Mingling with the sound
Spewing from the horns bole

So, furious forward run the Starats
their aim to maim!
And sounds, refractions, shades new
bounced about in the confusion
Shapes formed from shadows
Blew radiant aquamarines, impossible
scarlets, tanned buttermilk and
vermillion exasperating spheres, rinsing
disappearing or exploding
and a voice as if though and
ancient crack
seems,
yes, yes
makes sound
and what a noise!
Some new thing is on the way




How this land bubbles colour
Suddenly in scene of all this...
heaviness
it brings mirth and smiles somehow!
And a cheer, we hear
from the Bonga
The old tales are coming true
For the musics really do awaken
this land


Nargourds
We know you, we shall call you
shapeless forming fantasy of
Well splenderous array
Shall call you, call you
SAGANURU
OG of OLD
but your shiny new dragon skin
is lovely in this morning light.


Pok
So now the Starats turn their
weaponry skyward as this beautiful
creature rises, muscular, formed from
the foaming colour sounds.
And in fear, those rats loose many
arrows, pelt many stones, sticks
Anything!
At its indefinable mass
Now, is the beats harmed
What do you think...?

But more; for every projectile
aimed at translucent Saganuru
A thousand blossoms fall
showering
the comic battlefield
And all day there are skirmishes
and scurryings
as folk and folk dart about
influenced by the strange
environment
causing this or that
prank, or
merryment
to occur.
And as the madness excells itself
All that is touched
Changes hue
or
Sprouts with lively running peoples
Jeering
Rudely
Into the crevices and funny bones
of Earth and Mind
And it got worse,
Frantic...
Enjoyable
Folk ranted and sung in strange voices
and, from the chalk
Out wades Arthur himself


Tripped out Arfur
Galahad! Lancelot!
Camelot awake!


Nargourds
Comes the true king
His grave has been dug open
But he was not there
He just rolled out of the hill


Pok
and all his table
took to horses
and played bagpipes
and harps
In odd keys

This was found very enhuruing by
all present.
And, come twilight, still playing
and singing

The dragon could,
of course,
be seen properly
This was particularly...enhuruing
...WOW
COLOUR
And then the night
It got ridiculous. Everything was chaos
and well,
theatre.
A hundred plays were acted
A hundred hundred songs were snag
A thousand thousand chants were
sent up to the dragon, who flossed
bubble kin, borne in response
as the wind picked up the prayer
Dinosaurs rose from the curst
to sing their slow songs,
their heards writhing in
bone joy
Banners of blatent life chorused
loudly this night
Work had definitely stopped
and many rat's-eye began to turn,
horrified, but
exhilerated by what they saw
And at dawn, the wind made
the blossoms rise.
Only nature enhurus you.
* * *


Pok
Camrat had been watching all this
from a hiding place
He wasn't sure what he felt
There was something very different
about last night

It was quiet now, the Donga had
gone back up the Dragon eye -
I mean St. Catherines.
That strange woman as well.
It blew his mind
He saw the blossom
He remembered the colour
In the general aftermath, the various
artefacts strewn about the landscape
looked very disconcerting


Camrat
What was all that about?
Noones's working
What's Queenie going to say?


Pok
Camrat couldn't think straight
He began to sweat
He began to fret
He looked here,
He looked there,
Sees the husk of a huge worm
on the land


Camrat
It's Hurunagas' old skin
He must be on the scene as well


Pok
Camrat remembers the old legends


Camrat
Oh no, noone's about, noone's up
but Queenie soon will be


Pok
His rats eyes look up and down
And all of a sudden, there came
an evil glow to those wicked orbs
And on this faery pipe he played blowing
as he had seen Inamorata so do
played, calling
COME WORM, DRAKEHATER BE
I CALL CHROME GOAT, MAKE A ROUT
SORT 'EM OUT

The ears of the leaves
Would have heard
More than rustling
More than wild pigs squealing
Or birds trapped by larger talons
From some point in the wood
A darker night
There, abyssmal pains expresed
Clammoring
Wailing its hell into the world
For into the woods Mellise has gone
And her womb seems centre of monstery
Of peculiar, tormented anti-life
Urging her, retch
Convulse
as red-eyes are now the only
clarity among this darker dark
peering out of the belly
- Screams -
Only this baby knows that he ate
his way from his mother's womb!
And ran, amongst sudden
hail and lightnings
nature unnatural
Jet fear, gut panic, terror to
bring sweat
Lo!
He is born
Issued
And the first thing it does
IS KILL
Equipped for death,
One catches glimpses of his body
its bone metal sinew
and goat flesh

Horrendous mismatch
...Lethal
There followed weeks of
Murder
Carnage
Slaugher



Unpremeditated Unnecessary
Circles of red marked the
battlezones
But there were no battle
Just slaugher
And then reeking death
UNTIL
The creature found one he somehow
Recognised
The Giant, Gig, stumbling blind
about the Northern Hemisphere
Causing equal destruction
But unintended
The Goat - man - machine;
let us call him Goatborg
(for we created him)
gives the giant a spare pair of eyes
Wonderous sight bringing
latest technology
mechanical
And so the Giant gave thatnks
and said he would
for a periods of time
Give his service
So the pair set off rippling
angry circles, with no aim.
* * *
Just as Gig had not eyes
So Goatborg has no ears
not for the musics
Of Inamorata
For he of all
did not hear
Hurunagas' blast
For thought it was the cause thta
Made him fill his Mother's womb
He heard not, yet
The rhythm of his own creation
Rather, he chose to destroy
all that reeked of it
The moment of his birth had
been accompanied by the
Huskhorns shriek
and now Camrat blows
upon the old skin
So does its sound reach Goatborg
Who is is some landscape

It turns his head, electro-diodes
picking up sensitive oscillations
that stroke his nerves' circuitry
Metal hands drop his forgotten meal
a luckless marsupial whose guts
splay from the body


Goatborg
What is that?


Pok
Gig has ears enough and


Gig
That horn again, yet master,
this is the sound of worm made husk


Goatborg
Let us see what foul play is at hand.
Whose breath is bad enough
to blow it


Pok
They follow the sound,
Gig feels odd


Gig
That strange feeling again


Pok
Goatborg is unperturbed, and
soon, they come
to the place where Camrat is.
That ground of
Twyford Down

So with great synchronising
All of a sudden
Drawn by the rodent's puff
Hurunagas and Goatborg appear
Summoned
On either side of the horizon

There are lights
and signs in the sky
So, now, Camrat ceases blowing
To look at who he has called
Wicked sweats stick his fur in clumps
MET
The scene was out of Time
Medaevil
For peoples had met, alerting
the land of its perils
Harkening when Inamorata had blown
the horn, to meet here at Dragon Hill
When that peel wrenches the heart
People gather to secure their ancestral garden
Remembering an ancient root
And met in ancient grounds
Where legends are founded
And through time recovered
As Dragon rears head, so it speaks
The old ones return
And Camelot once more will swell
With needed celebrations
The hour is on us
But as legends remember
The tribes will return
And now in sight of Dragon
Do set down their minds to wield
Magicks
Bards stroll in to be swept up
And make their song relevant
Clothed all new in revelries
That we left off in the Fifteenth Century
When the lute sung of love also
Especially at those times of year
Circles conjunct
We meet, and our song lingers
Forceful in its suggestion
Now we draw the cord
And send our love songs
Flying to the heart
And so here at St. Catherine's Hill
Our startled old souls
Have met
And as Camrat has set his workers
to cut out this place, so peoples
Are streaming onto it
A many peoples from places far
Bound in the heart
Have come
One
` Come
Coloured cloths dance,
leap
tumble
Through
Sticks of fire; a
pageants
incantation
Swirling with ribbons.
Wode is worn; but not for fighting
Our sword is chalk, we have
Spiritual needs
A mystic faith of Earth-love
Inamorata holds crazy court
In the firelight
Beneath the trees
Atop the Dragon Hill
And talking is done
Of tactics, quickly in the need
For yesterday work was done
But tomorrow
All felt the pandemonium
Within aether
And so sunk their magic now
Into the earth
That this land would be protected
For we love the land
and fear its removal
And it is said over and over
that you can't kill the spirit of the
Dragon
And the Dragon lives in these hills
So to rise, bidden, to defend them
Now
Faces look up in the firelight
A song is begun, and continues
In rite
To ring the changes
And so, its ecstasy
Winks at Bok, that devil-demon
Who is travelling nearby in Space
with some goats
It's that cosmic egg again!
Space Goats are Nargonauts
Who be donga'd who am you
who am I
Who are all now sat on this hill
Chanting ourselves the evocation of
the land and a telling
a sing a
story stones
So, naturally, Bok lands his egg
on the top of the hill
Which glows,
A beautific vision
and spreads love tendrils
Over the Donga
Thus now trees plants grasses
weed and briar grow allwhere
and with a whoop
The Space Goats have at it with their
Lyres
and straddle the earth with sound
This was a night of intense
Eldritch
Spirals we danced, the key
that is a maze was
Trod and Turned

Till in the morning, after council
We will spill
Into the valley
To meet Camrat's authority

*******************************

MET

Rat Worm Giant and Goat
Three held by the vermin's cunning
So Camrat continued


Camrat:
Each of you is a will
And mind is that you
Work a while
In my employ
Until the task is done
Anyway, you have no choice
For I have you by the trance
When I can say anything
And you will believe it
Those pathetic Starats have seemed
to have got themselved enhurued or
something,
And I've need of stronger mettle
To get my job done
So you; Hurunagas,
Be it that you hold the fort from
the frothing of your son, song
Saganuru, that Dragon up in
the hill there.
Don't let him anywhere near here


Pok:
The worm said nothing of course
but did glow all the more like an
enormous Christmas tree
festooned with lights
This unnerved Camrat somewhat


Camrat:
And you; Goatborg.
Sever this hill from Mother Earth
Maybe later we will grind it in
our intestines so we can
shit
more of our tar onto the hole you
leave

Ha Ha


Pok:
Goatborg nodded once


Camrat:
You; Gig
Roll us a joint


Pok:
Now, the work begins
Goatborg sets his feet to the ground
and bellows black hate
From his legs, shining steel piercers
lance the hillock he is standing upon
Emotionlessly, they scissor-drill
Deep into the land
He walks forward, cutting deeply
Extending from Goatborgs arms
Spear
Great Razor blades that set off
Rotating like
huge lawn mowers
These machete the foliage, trees and
...smaller obstacles,
While explosives from his chest
deal with the larger ones
What an incisive step!

Goatborg is circumnavigating the hill


Nargourds:
To cut the eye
Of the Dragon

Such a thing

The ground is torn
(they scream)

MEET
When hills turn their eyes
We come again
Stronger than before
Come


Inamorata:
SAGANURU


Nargourds:
OG of OLD


Pok:
For see, as the Goat cuts
So the peoples of old England
Pour over the hill
A banging and wailing
Blowing on horns made themselves
Children of Hurunagas!
Oh Ra!
Oh clan have faith
where meet these souls
And here blazes the Dragon
Flying in full daylight

* * *

As soon as Camrat saw the Dragon
He commanded
And Hurunagas leapt up to tackle
An oncoming Drake
But Saganuru whar too playful
and Hurunagas forgot the
Rat's enchantment
To dance with it's child
in the sky!

So
the welkin was alive with (???)
Natural fireworks
Strong spells in themselves
Yet Goatborg did not err
He would not be enhurued.
Nearly all round the hill has he cut!
So when here, at last post, Nargourds
and Inamorata in desperate scheme
Have hastily erected a scaffold
Some thirty feet high,
In the path of Goatborg
And beset it with all trickery of
Colours, beads,
feathers and designs
To capture the eye
and train it
to one window
at the centre of its structure

Now Inamorata clambers up to
that focal point
She stands there, encircled by
spiral snake mandalas
In a costume of Danu's allure
Made from sequins
Wove by Donga fingers the night before
She looks magnificent
They wait

Goatborg rounds the bend

He has not seen
He is not looking!
He must look up
or he will not see!
So now the Donga did use of
their bullroarers
Curdling the air also with
Shrieks and cries that
Goatborg would
Glance up from his work
But it was no use
He got nearer
and nearer
Whirring
Nearly cut
Nearly cut
Nearly
Just then, signalled by Bok,
a party of
Space marauding
aeolian knights
Came down
Their singing swords made
an eerie
stomach-turning noise as they
were whirled
And the sound of the singing
scaffold doubled
To approach an awful
Crescendo
Drawing, drawing higher
and still more
in its threshing harmonics
Drawing...drawing
those Cyborg eyes to meet
MEET
Mandalas maze and her
jungle eyes
Inamorata!
And she did bleat


Inamorata:
Goatborg, your mother was a
woman

pok:
And so she sent a bolt of
sound love
from the core of her being

OM MA HUM
OM MA HUM

Goatborg received a ray of
eternal summons
Straight through his primal gland
Faltered
And moved no more
Blades stopping

Shutting down
Overload

Shutting down
Lights dimmer

And out

He crumbles

********************

The Love of the Sun and the Moon

Too much.
The night had been
a deluge of unprecedented
Events
The emergence of
A dream's ideal
Revolution of quartz minds
One,
As if the stones rebelled to be
More truly of themselves
And so drew their people
To them
And no blood was drawn
Save where scrambling over
the broken earth.
A graze or bang would occur
Still now,
The Nargourds slumber
Wherever they fell
And would probably be there
Some time.
Bok had levitated
In his Space egg
With the Contingent
Of still singing
Goats
Rising to a place where
They could party in peace
Here it is like a new age
Las Vegas
Flashing with a lightshow
by the new Snake 'n' Drake
Illuminations Corporation


Nargourd:
'Uruin'


Pok:
The aeolian knights had not
stopped playing yet
and now the frequencies of their singing swords
Generated a tornado-like
Whorl of energy
that filled spiral-powered
engines
With enough wazz
to grant
The palace of concentric pavillions
- that is Bok's egg
With ample enhurument
for the party to begin
In style
This was all to the enrapturement
Of Bok and the Space Goats
Who were reassembling
an old band
- the Bacchics
Who now use these dervish drones
as a bass-tone
All present grooved out deeply
and when Beaulah the beautious
and long eared said to set sail for
the stars, all cried agreeance
So Bok juddered his craft up toward the Sun


Bok:
Let's pay a visit to the old raver!


Pok:
And off they go in jubilatious
cacophony
Taking with them the hitchhiking
spirits of the
Crashed-out Nargourds

* * *

So the Sun looked across again
To where the moon was risen still
And his heart ached
For he loved her
And she did not return the love
For the moon, she loved of the Sun
Also
But recently events
Had made them separate
Oh how they lacked
But he's too fiery, the moon would
say
And she's too cold, said the sun
So nothing was done
Come Come Come
Why so?

Then Bok arrived on the scene
and, sensing the trauma
Mischieviously gestured
to the knights
Who began, their harps to extend
To cover the sky in string
and let the winds blow them
So the tune was a pleasing
and a caught a heart of emotions
And now our Sun could quench
his passions
In the wyrd
of his reflection
Saw folly's web
And a way to love
So put on robes
And a delicious collection of
Sunspots
And then did charm the moon
Out of the sky
Till they came to eclipse.
Bok's eye, now radiantly visible
from earth,
Osquils with joy and mirth (???)
And, as he smiles, there comes
indeed the celestial configuration
Delight
Hurunagas circles, shining
And Saganuru breathed a dawn
fire that touched all in its
conjunctional mesmerisms
Nargourds, just woken, sat on
St. Catherine's smirked in sleepy
empathy and were enhuru'd
as the moon obscured all but the
shimmerings of sun heat visible
around here curve.
They applauded, then fell back to
sleep.
And the peoples of the sun did swing
through space along the chords laid
by the aeolian knights
Very flashing ala Errol Flynn
Were these
Solites
So the Lunitians, those coy maids
and men of the moon were wooed
most rapidly and all swooning,
crooning formed a symposium
of love
that Bok's egg played like a
giant dancing plectrum, hopping
about space
from skystring to skystring
Weaving a song of the love of the
Sun and the Moon
There were many partnerships
made
at that party
People just came on down
And a new race was born
as Bok steered his music
round into the spiral arms
of the Pleiades
And the race was later to become
named Spirine, but that it soon
grew longer because of the many
cultures involved
And it is a new creative roar
these people send out from their
realm, on the tip, ever, of some
spiral.

But this is a true story of what
is going on in our spirits
and on the land
So the dreams of the Nargourds
have gone into their real lives
The land protects
And on earth, those dinosaur bones
Did mystically assemble
and set off into the sky
Nowhere is Camrat, but Gig can
be seen sitting down amidst
this chaos,
childishly playing with the eyes
Goatborg gave him
Adjusting tiny controls, pushing
sensors
That play light onto the retina
And further and further he gets
into the complexities of their
technological kaleidoscopes
Finding
Different-hued realities and
Differing layers of wiggly bits
New things for Gig to see!
He is wowed by their dimensions
Tranced by the colour possibilities
of his brain
Touched
Until he tips over some edge
into another world

And does not know the way back
Gone, Gig gone.


Pok:
Quite how many days and nights
had gone by and exactly when there
had been dancing, ranting
stamping, clapping
or sleeping was not sure
But now the Nargourds are up to see
dawn spreading out, long before the sun
an azure dome.
Their figures, silhouettes, hop about
and give off swathes of breath, mist in
the cold.
They look around, then put fresh kindling
in the embers
A fine morning
Tea is made in a broken kettle
Those still slumbering stir
The valley was a mess
All around the hill is now an empty
moat, crudely navvied(???) by Goatborg
The Nargourds go down and follow
the circle
And they come to the Cyborg,
Now kneeling, motionless
Having keeled over and got his horns
Stuck in the ground, he looks like one
In intense prayer
The scaffold was still up and
the Nargourds could see Inamorata
doing some work on it and banking
up the chalky soils in two tall mounds
They look back at Goatborg. How sad.
So off the Gourd-shakers go skippingly
to return five minutes later with huge
bunches of wild flowers
They frollick all over the fallen creatre
and decorate him with the colours
They completely enflower him and
sit around waiting for the old Goat
to wake
Which he does
And there is a change in Goatborg.
He naively looked around at the Binga-
Bonga with shy eyes, and tries to get
his horns out of the turf without
looking uncool
He tries for a while until the Nargourds
come and stand close around.


Nargourds
Well, things are come full circle
I suppose, for we are an excellent
crew at dismantling...
machinery
Got any dud connections?
Want one?
Maybe a screw loose
Perhaps a bit of lubrication
Is what you need
Where's your head to?
We're all really cut up about
what you've been doing.
But we've been talking to that lady
over there
And have decided to enrol you
at our enhurucademy
Where you will learn to love flowers


Pok
A tear drops, plop, from the only
metal eye present.



Goatborg
I'm so embarrased


Nargourds
Do you feel really stupid?


Goatborg
Yes


Nargourds
(sniggering) You love her don't you


Pok
Goatborg could not go red, but
tried to bury his horns deeper
There is a pause, then sniggers from
the goading rabble

Another pause
Then Goatborg gave out a cheery
snuffle, a couple more tears and
swallows
He laughs


Nargourds
He confesses!
You love Inamorata
You love Inamorata
Na na na na na


Goatborg
Oh shut up!


Pok
Just then, Inamorata comes
over riding the living skeleton
of an Aleosaurus
Seated high she sticks a colourfully
bannered pole in the ground


Inamorata
Goatborg - miscreant metallic
Your brow seems to be stuck
to the grass
Do you want something for your head?
Oh I'm sure you'll be alright
If you don't rust
Stand up then!


Pok
She reaches over and grabs him by the
forelock
So out come the horns from the earth
and up he, shakily, gets


Inamorata
Caused a bit of havoc, you and
your cronies
Don't see any of 'em now
Anyway, you're just in employ
So, is this how you get your kicks?
Wouldn't you rather ride with me?
Kicks baby


Pok
Inamorata coldly pouts, her
cheekbones glaciers


Inamorata
Your friend is in a state
Look at him, yes the big fellow
with the shades
He's a little gem I dug up once,
and I would hatefor him to have to
stay in kaleidoscopic reality
forever
I do love him
Your mate Gig is lost in the spaces
between the rainbow
He's gone doolalley, or will do soon
Trapped in his mind
Your glasses
The eyes you gave him
Done it
You must go and find him, in
the spaces between,
though you don't know your way
either

Into the realms of imagination real
You'll need one thing

Yourself

So, go Goat


Pok
Again, she moves toward Goatborg,
this time to whisper something in his
ear
Goatborg looked on, still more
dumbfound
Now she raises the banner high and
there is heard the squeaking of
bicycle wheels
The snake-spiral on the scaffold
begins to rotate and Goatborg is drawn
into it.
His eyes go hazy, then pop open as he
tries to deny it

But it is no use
Goatborg is taken back into his cranium
deep into the medullary ray he goes
as the worms turn
To that same land where Gig has gone
The nargourds are clambering over
Goaty, playing as an amazing
marimba
And
At the last moment of awareness
before the embafflement in his head
took over, Goatborg saw
Inamorata square with him an
enormously jaunty wink.
You know how
Sometimes get them? (???)
* * *

Goatborg blinked; a dull and heavy
world where beasts lashed primaevil tails
Forgotten times flickered past his
Saturated vision
Clapping new wings, his eye of supra-lit
majest broke open,
a seal stamped firm for aeons lifetime
And where Vulture forms sprang from a
vertical plane of grey, they clawed and
clacked at his direction
Their wire feathers stuck stmen in his
throat to make him gag, and there
washed dead rivers
many under
In crevices where no fingers fit
Their eyes shot madness, as he knew
what they were made of was
nothing he had seen before
Peek Poke Peck

And now, unleashed in satin
Goatborg is falling all around to a
zone, flashing yellow
Where sunsharks rove.
Above, a flower of such irridescence
ploughed its message home to the
Goat-with-no-ground,
Planting stars like seed
along the furrow
These he saw live die and be
reborn, tree branch briar
Showering from some place
Silver thoughts and
Mercury berries
And Goatborg woke to his darker
dreams
and felt unable to balance
properly on the smudged green
causeway that he must traverse
This way and that he would teeter
between the glowing and the
sinister
Ever the unpleasant spindle of
discomfort on his spine.
Flashes would pop in his field when
some excursion was done,
the prize for raising thoughts or
the lifting of limbs
So he stares over a balcony of
Changing panoramas,
Cities of the ages
Regressing then to planes
Where Ibu breed
A vast melancholic precipice was
between his eyes
And he could take no more

And only the abject beauty of
each horror lent him solace, scarce less
terrible
Led on by sickly angels, no thing
he touched could be right
So he went of his own
Unwilling to go further into silken folds
He was curled up in a place, nearly
warm, but for a little wind which
blew the security away
Here, then there
He could not trap the genii in his
throat, cheek or lips, for though the
teeth clasped, there was no substance
So he tried to speak
And none came
More, he opened his eyes and
seemed to be looking up at a
pipe
from below
A courtyard in dust, faces
painted with white smears
Their cheeks puff like a toad's throat
and a form of droning, was it creature,
was it caves rumbling
or the wash of the Nile;
Did bearded lizards and
bandijaps appear
Massive Above and so low,
probing
Were there stories passed on in this
court
where men in tunics could be seen,
their hands and lips moving
but no sound,
Green the palm leaves and donkey's bray.
To where all sworls eddied along the
edge of that rivers, gold,
the sound of slow cymbals
And sunglint
A woman
her eyes
and hair
a deep
painful tear
a
wrenching
neverending
task
Life, where the swimmin through
seven halos propelled a bullet mind
beyond, between planes
A gasp of air, clawing hungers
And on
the drone
And the cheeks pumping
Listen to our communication
In silence where we live
A crystal vision
You see
Goatborg
Where you live
in breaking domains
Is no longer the same
as you were
Go, silver! gold!
Cymbal Smash
Wisdom
Jewel
Savage Light
On
On
Plateau
Prepared where sphinx
raised head
on tarot's call
from the travelling people
In velvet
braid
holding out hands where
spin vortices
So Goatborg came to a place
where less frequency
and the waves were calmer
Now his belly rested,
Less harrowing
he could digest
new informations
that enbalmed him
lather
Sensations thrilling in ice touch;

Fingers curling, through which
he now travels

A place where light splits shards
from one point, a territory blinding
to the senses
Forward drawn, hatefully curious
Approaches with footsteps cotton
the warrior in fast armours
Titan of impentrable shields

sleek where patterns on broad
breastplates reflect his name
Shoulder plumes
Shining white protection,
Slits were
No eyes are seen, darting
Behemoth
Bars the way
And could not be denied
No words still
But flashing tongues
Made attempt
Where this guardian stands
And Goatborg crashes his arms
against that cliff of being
Again and Again
Uses all devices he has known
up to now
Of his malignant self
But that they have no use here
For this is no foe
tat can be vanguished
All is different here
In the mind
The Goat feels useless
like candy his fists (???)
Slow motions
in weird worlds
Do not allow his anger
satisfaction
And he bangs
himself to a froth
Where, breaking through the skin
of this dimension
He goes beyond
To wilder jungles
See what life he has been denying

And in they came

animals, creatures

from no land of his birth
Other eyes
Beyond sight
Come from all angles
Not eyes
No senses
Will tell him what they used to know
To guard him from this mind's
menagerie
Survival now
he has
no choice

no knowledge

Except in slow moments

Glimpses
He feels inner chords
To pluck, note by note
As Bok has shown

A song that soothes

And so, will stay the beasts
Where pulse is tutor
In landscapes unknown
Falling
Not falling
Where was his voice
Separated
from its skin
Out of vision
Not daring to sing
Assuring himself
There was noone there
There was nothing there
Noone could reach him here
Sunk in peril caves
No thing, mute or coiled
Could reach him, shivering
Surging now, waves
Form a foam metropolis
Where the black rams riled vision
This sea's seahorse sees,
possessing
With the eyes
I must know
Panic Goat - of - no - ground
Your mountain crag
supports no hooves
And Goatborg dares to look down
through his vast torso
where
sharp lime crocodiles
assaulting his sanity
Jabber
Full moon in his eyes
Gone! Too much, he is
Sent back fast splinter
Into the root of a flower

Fall, fall, down cells, calling

Drenching him in jellies
Revitalising.
So, his awed musculature
Relaxes

And Goatborg lets out a long breath
Again
Release

His ancient song
He hears clear cultureal visions
And so strolls into that
Fabled valley
where domes glow
How he be amazed
rearranged
How he never believed how belief

Creates his day
And suddenly realising
As whacked by a branch
He is flung back; smashed,
but lovingly
For wood nymphs giggle
And allow him to fall on downs (???)
* * *

Where, waking up in purple grass
Goatborg's eyes open to see a sky
Full of Rainbows
And all about were white stars twinkling
Where surely would lie other worlds
Suggesting
Never had he seen this before
His body glowed with travelling lights
He felt himself rising
Swayed by waves
Sick to the pit
It was unbearable
Help me please
Goat called in his Goat heart


Bok
Tear
the veil
The enchanted garden
Where Maenads play
The lake
Where is love's consummation
Go there now
Splash in the waters of
Your hearts desire
Remember
Your ancestral realm
Go into the water


Pok
So he did, beneath the rainbow sky
and all around played shrill pipes
Maidens poured from urns
and the growing green edges
loving
to the water
Goatborg bathes, his body silvering
Until the moon opens full
And he does no fear her
But drinks instead
Stunned into love
To feel his own heart
and know
One
With it
So now the spiral whirls once more
And again we are transported
Goat Crag
Stood before him
Gleeful
Goatborg finds he can
Climb to its height
and feel the wind
And there
Registered a profound
Recognition
Spirit,
That swells him with joy
He savours
Then jumped into forever
Borne now on the throbbing pulse
of Drones
Goatborg discovers he can fly
Sees below, villages
All directions he can go
through all stars
Where transport's delight
Becomes a new life of possibilities
Just as the lake's quenching gave him
Vigour to go there
So he is going,
And soon finds Gig
Still playing
Quite happy
Until Goatborg scares him witless
And they fall to tears
And embraces
Gig had found his own way
He knew it long ago
So together they tread
Towards where the halos lie
Those seven halos
Wherein they place themselves
To return
Easily
Once more to their senses.

**************************
CAMELOT'S TRUMPETS AWAKE!
Rejoice!
The hill is lit with flares
Faces beam, people
Hop, skip
Sing
Do their thing
As Arfur carouses
And Inamorata watches
Goatborg came to in the shade of a
tall mound
Two dome earth works the woman
has made, between them the scaffold
Around, proud dinosaurs stand

Their longs necks
Their thunderous feet

Inamorata strides to the base of the
nearest mound.
The banner is in her hand and
She wears a revealing red and gold
Jester's smock
She jumps into the air,
Waving her arms, legs and screeching
She has been waiting
And now, sees the bodies
Stir
When they have lain so long
Gig, Goatborg, lain still, now to more
So Inamorata levels her eye at the Goat
Presents,
Grapes
And starts to walk up the mound


Inamorata
Stand
Come
Go up
the
other
Mound


Pok:

So they, Goatman and black woman
Climb respective hills
And survey the lands.
Goatborg sees Inamorata
has styled a huge
natural amphitheatre
From his cutting
Made, and that it is new with Bok's
wearing weeds, roots and flowers
People are flocking to this place
here, meet, bringing
spirit and joys.
And now we cheers
Alive! We live! We grow!

Feel your way Goatborg
says Inamorata
You are not as before I see
what has got to you?
How, has experience changed you
You seem mellower
Say something
Speak

Goatborg called over the gap
I have been truly in my mind's life
Those many places I visited have
filled me
With knowing, and relevant
Information
I see how useless, in the face of
forever
It is to do anything else but fly
Our angry struggles, when unbridled
Will loose all karma back at you
And lash you with your own tail
I have heard
an inner song
that comes from bottomless chasms
the voice I so despised
Is louder that all my wailing mendacity
And now
I must bow
For I feel in more knowledgeable
Company
Lady, you have enhuru'd me


Pok:
Inamorata preened as Goatborg lowered
his head

Inamorata:

How gallant
You see, hear, I have arranged a festival
For your return
It might be good if fates entwined
So I was talking to Bok right now
And the Goats should be here soon
In fact, here they come now.
Let them remind you of the song
If it's lost I'm sure they'll know it
For hear, all the tribe are
joining the tune
Down there by the fire
What are they burning?
Machinery?
Playing it too
Better watch it Goatborg
Let's go down
I'll look after you

pok:
So they stroll up to the circle
Of being
And there as well as
Nargourds
Are many Starats
Keeping warm by the flames
Listening to the musics
So our larger than life pair
mingle with the other folk
who grow in story
Met, many races,
here at St. Catherine's
Singing a song we all choose
As bards sparkle in their moments
and Bok whorls all in his
protective wings.

And it was that night,
Many songs were sung
Until, at last, Goatborg breathes
His own eulogy
To the past
And joins nature in her own song
At once it agreed
that this was a better harmonic
than before
And all rose on the rotating rhythm
than now, revelling,
Goatborg recommends
that Spirine
play his steel panels once more
So when, hearing the clamour
mixed with Borg's joyous gurglings
Peripatetic Goats, Gargalax
Godzollocks and Cronk
those whose marracas
are starballs
Join in
Knights aeolian, sons and lasses
Lunitine
And songster solites
All jangle their clangers
As make the moon music
Or beat the gong
That shimmers sun
Makes us know our dreams are come
And all eyes at once do open up
See pouring from her golden cup
Guinevere, her face the sky
Pouring waters from up high
See that Goat and Gig within
And drenched in rain begin to sing
A story, older far than all the rest
That they knew best
For had been there
And now remembered
Ancestral lay
The balance of the wheel goes round
To uproot the roads
For there's no map
That can encompass this territory
This experience
This freedom
Where like a crack of light at first
Soon becomes the day

Dinosaurs form domes
From their bones
And it did shield a harmony
On the scene
And into the new
this glorious crew
Come streaming with
Song and tale ablaze
Come to make a better days
To turn the corn, to tread the maze
And open up and look around
See really what is going down
Goat and Gig are raised high above
Everyone is welcome
Old masterfools
And there is a procession under the moon
Round the hill three times were took
This Borg, who'd been mistook
The Giant too, they'd had a look
And saw a world, unlike their own
But into which, we, now are going
So, Inamorata, gave us shout
Goatborg circles, round about
Healing turning, healing how
We make the sound that makes the now
And see, if you can, if you could
The girl and goat went to the wood
And did not return
Till very long
When need of words, of huru song
Calls them;
Celebrate, happy throng
Then they will come
At any time
Come,
to sing their ancient rhymes
So hark and hear
A message clear
Bring your friends,
Have no fear
Down to this hill,
Where legends lay
Come you here
and come today
For future holds a fable fine
Though we walk now an even line
'Twixt fall and safe,
but whose to know
P'rhaps a verse, a silly show
Can ring the change, that's come
We know
And join in hard won peace to last
For thru struggle dire
this new age blasts
For there is faith
and there is art
And we will go along our path
Our weary feet, our Goaty cart
A true road, for it is not seen
Which is where this tale has been
Thankyou very much