Ben comes into the kitchen and immediately there is a relief that we are alone [...]

I have brought you fragments.
Do you have nimble fingers?

I seek the limelight, don’t you see?
But let’s keep that between you and me

Until the streets are finally safe for people with high disposable income… everywhere is 4×4.

Howden House you’re a living hell to me
with your lies and lack of decency
providing daily facades as you act all fucking hard with your third Reich ideology

The phone call should be a clue as to what Joey is like. But I have already spent a long time weaving a beautiful and detailed tapestry in my mind of what Joey is like and I am satisfied with the result.

American wheels, an open road
Traversing the nation, from coast to coast
From Blackpool to Skegness

I slide beneath the slapping waves
to gloomed embrace of sea.
My futile fight for life is lost
and drowned, my tearful plea.

Momento Mori by Hinchcliffe and Hodgson has been inspired by the painting, ?Man with Skull? by an anonymous follower of Jose de Riberra.

That’s right, the July podcast is now available for you to go back and listen again to all this month’s performances.

“3, 2, 1, and you’re on air”

“Hello this is John Fortescue-Smyth, BAFTA award-winning journalist reporting today for the BBC from flood-ravaged South Yorkshire.”

What do you want to do?
He asks, sprawled on his back
Su Doku hack
Head full of numbers, not wanting replies to distract him from counting.

I still think on celluloid nothing is sexier
than a noirish silhouette emerging from a barrier of smoke. Time was the doctors recommended it,

“This is about a relationship I’ve had for a while now – not a particularly healthy one, I have to say.

Nobody really knew who was the first person to encounter the hanging men that morning, but there were hundreds of them, hovering over each crossroads and meeting place, town entrances and exits, the doors to the Hall and the lanes down to the beach.