This book is now out of print.
1-903488-26-5. 36 pp.
Chris Goode is a writer, performance maker and musician. In 1999 he set up the theatre company Signal to Noise and since 2001 he has been Artistic Director of camden people’s theatre. He is also the author of Boomer Console.
Dead Gepetto
for Sam Ladkin and Malcolm Phillips
dive, scuff they turn-ups, this blank tape
has dropouts even, the cultural buff in the
corner of the plaza, talking up “varieties”,
cranking up a tired car, mulching time.
We was dawdling, we was in a fast van
parked next the piled hyssop there,
doo-wop, tin-ears? Hankering after ancient
amnesiac homesteads, the spokes in the main,
you watch it snowing with all your might.
You won’t come into cash and it won’t matter,
nor the kids with the blue broken feet neither.