‘Distressed – I sit for a while with a fallen tree and keep her company’ part 5
Portsmouth October 30th
The fifth of 5 ‘catching up’ posts documenting the conversation and encounters on the next stage of the ‘Konfirm’ journey leading up to premier of play and start of ‘Konfirm 2’ which will then be a new blog later in 2014
‘Word has form’
Thursday 24th October
Portsmouth – London – Portsmouth
Bad dreams start the day – ‘usuality’ and awoken at 4 am by the internal infernal voices
There is sun as I walk to the station – i wonder if it can tell my distress?
Today
There may
Be
a
Seventy
Three
Percent
opportunity
To fall
In pieces
As
The stones
Crumble
Fall to the sea
Just for me
Just before me
I sit in usual single seat but my solitary plan so falls astray to the prat in a suit who sits in-front of me moving constantly – ripples in my tea – he smells of smoke too – knows it all and is saying so – mind you this is distress distraction all be it annoyingly
gaze out the window at clusters of evening primrose glad of the glass barriers against these yellow triffids
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Mist retreats
at touch
of our sun rays
seeking out the bare flesh
found exposed
now your out in the open
Drifting from the tree line
Facing the glare of all around you
Reflections
Obsessions
Evaporating Like some dark vampires dream
Or ash cast sedentary
upon a fast stream
Where hesitant
I lay down to sleep
My allotted thousand years
Caught between stones
Some holdfasting
becoming
safe
from
harm
Others
Harm
————————-rest————
We are here
not a moment too soon
I wait till the carriage empties before i get up
a
s
h
o
r
t
walk
through ‘the cut’ again
past the Young Vic at a fast pace
onward to Arts Catalyst
where we plot Konfirm part 2 over tea
forming an engagement pathway
performances in mind
for others to relate too
finito
Back to Waterloo
but call into
The theatre
and touch the wood
for luck
our stable table
train headaches
home early afternoon
sun follows behind
when I am reminded
by pattern on platform
I sequence therefore I am
