unpublished stretcher

I left this one out of the Reality Street book by mistake.


…this is a 27 sparrow
pick up (grow up you)
camp torremolinos was
mostly birds in a small
fire singing o to o to be
o to be old mans organs
in a bowl o to be legally
whitebait in aluminum lakes
of d & c (gling gling their
new job as a rabies dish
delayed by six centuries
of shopping at fuck london
(take that final cindy (the
bird cries I wear a bird
(take that fat kidney &
put it in the peepers the
waiter which I reach put
me in the peepers sir
yr bedford jacket make
you a queerboy he say I
say sir I am janice kenneths
wife we who are so hairy
are lips are & are arms are
& I dump her fresh she
& her new airs & let her
go the keep-out girl (she
a going-down non-stop
battery who so go round
the mulberry bush you
will (later) see her gling
gling she who will not
no sir fall in with any other
bird…

old stretcher

Before Bob Cobbing put out the first vol of stretchers in 2000 I showed him this version I'd done using notepad or paintshop (whatever, it still took hours to do). I wanted to publish the whole sequence like this but Bob disagreed insisting it had to be legible.

filler to keep the hellhounds off my trail...

poodle play

nigeria's finest

england's dreaming


nancy's dreaming