The 1995-2007 Compilations

 

Poems, Anti-Poems, Words and Lyrics by P.E.F on

LONDON

 

 

 

1997

 

London Here I come

(T-Bay song)

 

Zone one two three

one two three, one two three

 

Lo-ondon here I come

Lo-ondon, here I come

 

Victoria station

 

bus 73, here I come

Lo-ondon, here I come

Heathrow airport, City Airport

Docklands Light

Railway

Here I come, here I come

Euston Square, Duncan Terrace, South East Railway, Buckingham Palace

traffic wardens, Kew Gardens

Lo-ondon, here I come

 

Zone one and two, one for me one for you

borough Borough, Seven Sisters, Blackfriars, mini cab, black cadillac

nice legs on a bike, Turnpike, Angel, Austin Mini, Paris c'est fini...

 

Lo-ondon, here I come, here I come

Lo-ondon, here I come,

here I come.

 

Walking nowhere.......running somewhere,

Leicester Square, running in circles

Piccadilly Circus, Covent Garden

Here I come, here I come

 

Lo-ondon here I come

Finsbury Park, West Hampstead, Camden, West Croydon, Holborn,

Misery line, Metropolitan, Hammersmith, Chiswick

Waterloo Station, Battersea Power Station

Here I come

Lo-ondon Lo-ondon, here I come

 

Lo-ondon, here I come

here I come

 

Lo-ondon here I come, here I come

 

 

 

1997

English.

(London Conversations 1996 part II)

 

You are not English, are you?

-No, I am not.

You are Scottish!!!? No, you do not look like Scottish...

-I am from Flanders, but I live in London since 1994.

Flanders...? Where is that?

-Belgium....

Ah, Belgium, Brussels...

-No Ghent, the heart on Flanders, that is where I lived before, before I went to London.

Flanders,...you are Flemish,... aren’t you,...you speak French?

-No, I speak Flemish.

What is it then, German?

-No, it is close to Dutch.

Dutch! You speak Dutch...!

-No Flemish. It is like English and American, in that case, we are the English.

Hmmm.

So you don’t have your own language?

-We have three national languages; Flemish (Dutch), French, German.

So you’re...Flemmish...and the Flemish come from the Dutch people...?

-No, that’s a different story, in fact we are Celtic.

Celtic...?

...Your English is quite good.

 

2000

 

 

 

LONDON A.D.

 

This is the big city; nowhere land of everything a bit

Tower of Babel of emotions, slow motion quit

Philosophies in the middle, churches on the right

Traffic signs on the left.

Humanists, opportunists in front of traffic lights

This is the city, a stone fight!

Labyrinth of walks of life where at times I am afraid

To take my chances perhaps because

It is never that clear where they lay, crowded and busy

Still I am happy for the next day. No better choice about

(I keep telling myself)

So, I am and stay Londoner, troubled but fuzzy.

I do not need to be born in Britain to feel like that,

feel that British society feeling,...

Working on it together.

Experienced, in chains and in poverty. This city keeps my mind busy

And is always suprising as it is confronting, disjointing

So even when I walk, I am on the run, running circles, miles per hour

And explore new corners, caged in a flatshare and haunted...

Telling myself I am getting somewhere one day

If not now, if not today, the next day, very next day

Brilliant day, hope it comes soon. Time is on my side, an old rat/a newcomer

 

Streets are empty here, people hide behind their telly

Only Leicester Square makes people go round and round, miles an hour...

Thinking they experience it all, all they got are nomading crowds....

We all were one of them processioners once...

Financial heart and free market, decency a fake target, obeyers rule

From defender of all faiths to no entry if you do not suit our thought.

U-turn. No rebels no heroes, not anymore. No middle of the road relationships

One religion or the other. Choices, downtrodden. Beggars. Change.

Innovating and rotten, listening and stubborn.

Relaxed but busy, honest but lousy. Arty but sponsored.

No flashy King Streets...

nothing new on the stage, nor on the dancefloor, another row.

Commerce rules the world multicoloured world attitude

When you enjoyed it,  you have to call back the very next day, saying you did.

If you don’t then you are rude. Rules world mix of rules, cannot know everything.

Will make mistakes, cannoit know everything about this world. Learn on daily basis.

Stubborn Europeans say 1,6 km a mile.  Personality, history,European English, the English say...

Mainland Britain, Mainland Europe, Europe we say... Wise,

meeting the marvelous holding the line. Conservative, the latest gadgets in the office

U.S, Tokyo, India, China, Taiwan, West Indies, Ghana, Nigeria

Chorea, Canadia, Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium,...

Studying, Short break, Holiday, London? Not for my life...

Tea, coffee; life is short, and I have one, and the night is cut in halves

P.M,....The last pint for U.K. hurry hurray.

Tube rush, tube rash...Dancing and drinking half the night away,

where everybody want to be my wife!!! House parties, neighbours informed.

Now in this pub I experience diversity, but all foreigners still look the same to me...

I am not aware yet of their differences, Irish, Aussie,...

(don’t even know what the word means)

For a night,   not for aday, for a split second or if I am lucky for much more

I haven’t been that prosperous so far.                                       

Plenty, plenty, plenty of celibatare youngsters in London A.D.

 

 

 

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Poems, Anti-Poems, Words and Lyrics by P.E.F on

LYRICS

 

 

1997

 
Man by the river

 

There’s a man by the river

Making a bridge.

There’s a man by the river making a bridge

Spirit,

River,

Thought,

Construction

There’s a man by the river, making a bridge

There’s a man by the river

River

Man

Bridge

 

Some

Scienctific research

Does say

Ants do as well

 

There’s a man by the river, making a bridge

There’s a man by the river

 

Making a bridge,

Making a bridge

 

A man by the river

Making a bridge

 

Man by the river

Making a bridge.

 

 

 

1997

Everybody puts everybody down (everybody lifts everbody up)

 

Everybody puts each other down.

Everybody lifts each other up.

I don’t know anymore, I’m over the top.

Who are my friends and which are not,

I can’t see the difference.

Should I listen to the others,

should I listen to myself ?

Does everybody put everybody down,

Is there any help ?

Am I able to conclude on my own ?

Is it better to stop ?

Who is right and who is not ?

I don’t know anymore,

I’m over the top,

I am clear, am I winning? Have I won?

I am over the top, did I lose anything?

Is the solution near ?

I cannot find it. Can I go on?

 

Everybody puts each other down.

Everybody lifts each other up.

Everybody puts each other down.

Everybody lifts each other up.

I don’t know  anymore, I’m over the top.

Who are my friends and which are not,

I can’t see the difference ?

Should I listen to the others,

should I listen to myself ?

Does everybody put everybody down

Is there any help.

Am I able to conclude on my own ?

Is it better to stop ? Who is right and wrong

Can I go on?

 

Everybody puts each other down.

Everybody lifts each other up.

Everybody puts each other down.

Everybody lifts each other up.

 

 

1997

With you there is no hesitation

 

With you there is no hesitation,

With you it is straight ahead.

With you there is no hesitation,

Straight forward and no way back.

 

With you there is no hesitation

With you I got what I want.

With you I got what I need.

With you there is no hesitation

Straight forward and no way back.

 

When I am with you, I like you more and more

And I know what I am talking about

With you things are for real

With you I know what I feel

With you I can be who I am

With you there is no hesitation

Straight forward and no way back.

 

You are my sunshine

A dream in Summer

I am your runner

On a golden heated shore

Running to places

Never been before

To end tired in your arms

 

With you there is no hesitation

With you it is straight ahead.

With you there is no hesitation

Straight forward and no way back.

 

 

 

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PERSONAL

Poems and Lyrics by P.E.F

 

1996

 

a Lot without words

 

 

When no more energy is left

and I do no longer

know what to do

I go to the place

where the land turns into sand

becomes the sea

sitting on the dunes

I watch the play

my eyes hypnotised by

the rhythm, flood, ebb-tide

night, day, life, dead

knowing, mystery

waves anyway

look like endless

eternal, endless ?

eternal, endless ?

eternal,...,endless... ?

mesmerising,

teasing my eyes,

the sea is the mother and the other side.

 

We know how rivers flow,

but why does the sea move away?

And why moves the sea

towards us, because of...

the moon ! scientists may say...

it doesn’t answer all my questions about life...

The sea whatever,

a mysterious machine,

to me there is only one sea

and though the sea does not talk,

doesn’t bother, doesn’t ask,

does not lie,

does not hurt,

the sea  tells  a lot

without even a word...

 

 

 

2006

Left-dead

 

I hear you

Moan

Didn’t I hear you moan ?

Didn’t I ?

Oh, how bad...

Oh, such shame...

You would curse God’s name ?

That this mouse is on

The left-handside

And not the right-hand (side)

Like it is supposed to be ???

 

I hear you

Moan...

Didn’t I hear you moan ?

Didn’t I ?

Oh, how bad!!!

Oh, such shame!

You would use God’s name ?

That this mouse is on

The left-handside

And not the right-hand (side)

Just because of me.

 

 

 

1997

High on Reality

 

I neeed no drugs, need no beer,

Need no pills round here

I am high, high, high, high on reality

High, high, high on reality

 

I know life is not

A pleasure cruise

But what is the use

I know I can make it

High, high, high, high on reality

 

I am high, high, high, high on reality

High, high, high on reality

 

When we see clear

The soloution is near

We need a lot of clear thought

That way we won’t get caught

 

High, high, high, high

High on reality

High, high, high, high on reality.

 

High on reality.

I know life is not

A pleasure cruise

But what is the use

I know I can make it

High, high, high, high on reality

 

I am high, high, high, high on reality

High, high, high on reality

 

 

 

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SOCIETAL

Poems, Anti-Poems, Words and Lyrics by P.E.F

 

 

2007

 

Saints and Global Heating

Polar bears on green land.

Water runs down hills over land

Where once trees drank.

In the oceans

Sea fish thrive and others extinct

Their food supply slunk

Sea birds above starve

their food too hard to find

and birds of prey pray.

Sea reptiles die on land

Their food taken by thriving sea species

Here in ‘educated’ Europe

People are forgetting

what Winter is for,             

imagining themselves unaware

of the whole story

Producing a smile adopting

sub-tropical manners

another Cappuchino

Or a glas of wine Al Fresco

And a Saint Martin’s Summers.

 

 

 

1997

The (de)barricaded doorways to our heart

 

Everybod, is playing games,

Everybody, fears to get caught,

Everybody,

Everybody,

Everybody

Is just taking care of themselves

At least the ones I met

Ah,...

They do a lot, perhaps I do as well at times...

So many are afraid to show who they really are,

So many,

So many,...

Will you be different my love,...or

Will you bring my golden castles to the ground

Am I getting naive again?

Am I getting crazy again?

What is it that makes me still believe

There is someone different there about

That there is must be something real to find

Am I getting naive again,

Am I getting crazy again?

I like to write about trees and leaves and stars

Those thing at least I am sure of what they are

But this timi you changed my words

Now I feel so closer to you

Even when you are far

Now I started the evaluation

Am I getting naive again

Am I getting crazy again?

I this the sin of my youth?

Who’s the closest to the truth?

Am I getting naive again,

I am getting crazy again?

Everybody, is playing games

Nobody wants to get caught

Everybody

Everybody

The truth is always too far ahead

And Impossible to catch

What is it then that makes me still believe

That there is something real to find?

Will you be different my love,...or

Will you turn my fragile harmonies out of sound?

Everybody is playng games

Everybody’s afraid to get caught,

Ah,...

Am I getting naive again?

Am I getting crazy again

 

 

 

1997

Will you still love me now you know I’m unemployed ?

 

Will you still love me

now you know I ‘m unemployed

Will you still love me

or am I getting paranoid

will you still love me

And will you feel annoyed

now you know

that I am unemployed ?

I have no job,

but I don’t feel

like giving up

I have a body, hands

and a mind,

and I have the right

to love

even when life’s unkind

 

will you still love me

now...

around you smiling

I never let show

how I suffer, hiding

not to let you know

how I really feel

no matter how strong my will

what do I have to live

my life is going downhill

what do I have to give

will you...

 

when I was young I believed in welfare

but what do I have to share now

And the ones who got a job

tell the others

that employment doesn’t stop

I tell to myself

that I got a chance

but I feel more like a yo-yo

the funny tunes on the radio

they do not impress me at all

another phonecall

society soon puts me in a role

when will you

 

will you...

 

 

 

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The 1995-2007 Compilations

 

Poems, Anti-Poems and Lyrics by P.E.F on

RELATIONS

 

 

1996

 

Promises to the heart

 

What kind of promises

have been told

to the heart?

What was before,

between, which light was seen

and what makes it now

the difference

of losing the game or

taking a big chance

man’s doubt fading

when somehow

a final decision made

when the woman

does the same

to go for that

ultimate desire

that has a name

but that doesn’t

sound the same.

To end up infected

to lose themselves

in love

the knowledge to win

the time of their lives

and get burnt

in the fire

to find strength

increasing and wild

in a woman, a man

and,... maybe a child.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1997

Love experts

 

Here I am honey

Am I in time?

Here I am honey

Life is nice, life is fine

No surprise if it wasn’t even mine

Probably the next in line

 

When Experts of love,

Come dragging in

When experts, experts of love

Draw the line

When the experts of love

Draw the line

 

Will you judge me

Not understand me

Straight after the first shot

Not on what I can be, could be

 

But on what I have got?

Love to you is merchandising

Love to you is war

Aint it that much surprising

I know already how you are?

What you are?

 

An expert of love

A love expert

 

Men are nice, men are awful

There is nothing inbetween

Men are friend,  men are too close

Men are always something

But most of it imperfect

It is never well enough, is it?

For

 

An expert of love

Expert of love

 

Here I am honey

Ready to spend so time

Here I am honey

The next in line

Doing my best like all the rest

Looking for a cosy place

But being judged

Discouraged

On my knees

For you expertise...

You the

 

Expert of love,

expert of love...

 

 

 

1997

Us or me

 

It is a given up idea

Yes, it is maybe...

It’s a lonely space

It’s a broken romance

A forgotten chance

It’s over...

It’s over, not over yet

And whatever we say

It does remind us

Of better days It’s over; not over yet

No doubt,

Is there any

Burnt out

Like so

This is the end

It is over, gone and done

This is the end. Yes it is...

Or... will we fall in love agian?

 

It is a given up idea

It is a given up notion

A lost project

It is a perhaps

It is a lonely place

It is a broken up romance

It is a rotten chance

We know whatever we do

It will remind us of us two

Things we did,

Things we didnot do

It is over, gone really gone

This is the end. Yes, this finally is...

Or,...  will we fall in love again...?

 

 

 

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Not phraseless but

EXPERIMENTAL

Poetry by P.E.F

 

1996

Tape 2

 

Biscuit tape

 

153          icarus

154           

155          need to put some clothes off

156          need a chair on the right place

157          blow my nose first

158          we need a beat for this

159           

160           

161           

162           

163     we need a little needle for the sound

 

169                          a                   ICARUS {1995version}

 

173 I am I carus

177 I am a gnattt, I am a fly, I am Icarussss

183 persussion

185 I am icarus I am a percussionist

187 I am a seagull, I am flying towards the light!

192 I am agnatt, I am a fly, I am curus

197 I am a percussionist, I’m flying towards the light

200 I am flying towards the artificial light!

201 I am a percussionist

202 Flying towards the bulb

203 I am I curus

      I AM A PERCUSSIONIST

i AM iCRU...

 

{dead}

 

spoken in on tape, 25/8/1995, part of the play tHE BEES.

 

 

 

1997

The Editor

 

igh am recording the picture

the editor

it is me

igh am recording the picture

everything igh see

 

igh am recording the picture

it is me

the trees the birds

everything igh see

igh am recording the picture

it is me

igh am not a monkey on a tree

igh am a Homo Sapiens

and igh am recording it

igh am the editor

igh might as well do it

secretly

but don’t tell anybodee

igh am the editor

igh edit you, you edit me

igh am not a camera

igh am a mike one and all

mike

igh am the editor

and igh keep quiet

so igh do not record me

 

 

 

2006

I M O K  R U O K  I M O K  (I can write PoeAT3)

(your brain neats programming)

 

IGH NO

IGH NO IGH NO

IGH NO

WAT LOV=

C PAGE 1270

SEE PAGE 187 bis

I M O

K

There is nothing Rong

There is somting Rong

 

With your Brain

I AM OK

I CAN RITE POE AT 3

There is lot wrong

 

WIFT U

YOUR BRAIN neats

Programming

There NOT IN RONG WIFT ME

I CAN RIGHT POE AT 3

 

 

 

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The 1995-2007 Compilations

 

Poetry and Anti-poetry by P.E.F on

THINGS

 

 

2002

Love bites

 

Membership of this,

Membership of that,

the heck

I am into Nature,

and Nature is into

me. But everytime

I am with Nature,

Nature bites me.

 

Written after being stung.

 

 

 

1996

THE GIRL WAS A NATURAL BEAUTY BUT SHE MADE SOUP OUT OF POWDER

 

We need a packet of soup out of powder, a mug and hot water.

The girl stood up, hhhhh, went to the washing table, put water into the water cooker.

The girl was very clever,...

She opened the packet of soup out of powder, put the soup into the mug,

Today she was making cream of vegetables, tick, tick, tick, cream of vegetables

The girl threw the waste in the empty box

Switched on the water cooker and waited, she sat down on a creaking chair, that day the chair

Did not want to creak for a couple of minutes,

She crossed her leg-, as she was thinking of the future

She was not making soup for herself, actually, she did not like soup herself,

She was making soup for her boyfriend,

Who was seated in the other room... in the easy chair

He was reading the newspaper, the girl was reading nothing.

The girl sighted as she liked to sigh from time to time.

Hhh

Her boyfriend in the other room turned the page of the newspaper, she did not know.

The girl was clever, she crossed her legs again.

Then she stood up and took the soup.

The girl was a natural beauty, but she made soup out of powder

Then she took a spoon, and stirred the soup, then she waited for about half a minute

Because her boyfriend did not like soup out of powder that hot.

She went up to her boyfriend seated in the easy chair like sitting on a throne, like a prince

And offered the soup out of powder, (he looked like a prince on a throne)

They were very happy together, the other day she would make soup out of powder with

mushroom taste

The girl was a natural beauty but she made soup out of powder, soup out of powder, soup out of powder, soup out of powder.

The girl was a natural beauty but she made soup out of powder, but she made soup out of powder, but she made soup out of powder, the girl was a natural beauty but she made soup out of powder

the girl was a natural beauty but she made soup out of powder

soup out of powder

soup out of powder

{tack tack tack rattle}

{klingel}

{citysounds}

I know what I am talking about

The girl was a natural beauty but she made soup out of powder

The girl was a natural beauty but she made soup out of powder

To make soup out of powder

We need soup out of powder

We need a muggg, a mug

A tidy mug

the girl was a natural beauty but she made soup out of powder

 

 

 

 

1997

I can watch teevee tonight

 

I can watch teevee tonight

I have a lighthouse so bright

I can watch teevee tonight

And sit around the campfire untied

 

I can lazy out and relax

Without a move

Like a figure of wax

 

I can watch teevee tonight

I can adjust the colours

And I can adjust the sound

Change channels, so bright

I can watch teevee tonight

 

I can watch a movie

I have seen before

Indulge on beer and crisps

And the rest of the candy store

I can watch teevee tonight

 

I can watch teevee tonight

I have a lighthouse so bright

I can watch teevee tonight

And sit around the campfire untied...

 

 

 

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PHRASELESS

Phraseless Poetry by P.E.F

 

2006

 

People People People People People People People

People People People People People People People

People People People People People People People

People People People People People People People

People People People People People People People

People People People People People People People

People People People People People People People

People People People People People People People

People People People People People People People

People People People FOOD People People People

 

 

 

2007

Wine

 

Pearls

Pearls

Pearls

Pearls

Pearls

Pearls wine.

 

 

 

2002

May/May not

 

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May

May not

 

Written the first of June 2000.

 

 

 

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The 1995-2007 Compilations

 

The play “tHE BEES”

POETRY

 

 

1997

Poetry

203 hungry tape (soundtrack)

 

Poetry

 

Poetry

poetry!

Po-etry

Poetry, poetry ?

poetry...?

poetryyy

poetryy

oh poetry oh yes poetry

oh I have some nice poems in my book,

do you want to read my poems ?

shall I write a nice poem for you ?

I am a poet !?

Poet?

You are a poet !?

What’s the use in being a poet?

I am very poetic.

I am a good human being,

I am sweet and soft, and I make poetry

Poetry, of the flowers and the bees, the bees ah there is a bee there ah no.

 

224

poetry (eating microphone)

 

CRAZY

 

 

 

1996

Touch me

 

Touch me,

 touch me,

I touch you,  touch me.

Touch me like lovers do

Touch me,  I touch you...

 

Waves, I feel waves...

Touch me, touch me.

 

I touch you,

 touch me.

Touch me like lovers do.

Touch me, I touch you

Hands...

reach out those hands,

 

I feel waves...

 

Waves,

 I feel waves. Touch me.

Touch me.

 

I’ll touch you

touch me,

touch me...

 

 

 

1999

Lazy lanes (my little cosy nest)

 

Afraid to lose comfort

In my cosy little nest

Afraid to lose comfort

I forget about the rest

Afraid to lose comfort

In my cosy little nest

Slowly but surely

My life becomes a mess

 

My life is getting meek

In easy chair conversations

I am getting weak

And blaming generations

In my cosy little nest

Day by day I forget

Putting myself to the test

 

Though I know yet

I do not contest

Slowly dying

Slowly dying

On my cosy little nest

My cosy little nest

 

Afraid of losing comfort

Afraid of being hurt

Afraid the change direction

And to end up ninety third,

First I’m digging a hole

Then I write my manifesto

Me oh me suffering alone

In my cosy little nesto

 

Afraid to lose comfort

I do no longer

Give things a try

Instead of killing hunger

I start asking why

My feelings are freezing

In my cosy little nest

So don’t take away please

My cosy little nest

Afraid to lose control

Or worse to lose

All I had so far

I would rather choose

Peace instead of war

But all I end up with

Is muscles stiff

Dizzily brains

And a belly too fat

Falling asleep

In Lazy Lanes

My cosy little nest.

 

 

 

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