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Poems,
Anti-Poems, Words and Lyrics by P.E.F on
LONDON
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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
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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
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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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LYRICS
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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. |
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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. |
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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
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PERSONAL
Poems and Lyrics by P.E.F |
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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... |
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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. |
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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
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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. |
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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 |
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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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Poems,
Anti-Poems and Lyrics by P.E.F on
RELATIONS
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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. |
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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... |
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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 |
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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
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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. |
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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 |
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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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THINGS |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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2007 |
Wine
Pearls Pearls Pearls Pearls Pearls Pearls wine. |
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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 play “tHE BEES”
POETRY
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1997 |
Poetry
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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 |
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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... |
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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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