you woke one day to find plump sultana bluebottles
dive bombing the sanguine orchid by the bed and
now you can only come when there is a gun in your
mouth and now your spit has stuck pine needles
to your cheek and now you are praying into the
hot ground and the last thing you notice is how
good the wet soil feels in your throat.
Ooo no, never even heard of that film, it looks ace! Must watch that, thanks for the rec!
Yeh, I wondered that too. He might not be able to write anything at all. I suspect he will, but you never know. Such a godawful tragedy, that. You do your best to raise your kids with as much information about the real world as possible...to go, armed with that knowledge and yet still come unstuck...heartbreaking.
Hahaa :D
You ever read his letter to MTV? There's a live clip of him reading it now, on Letters of Note. If you've not seen it, you'll love this :D
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/02/my-muse-is-not-horse.html
wonderful! he was amazing live. it was a greatest hits tour and people kept calling out songs for him to play. his response - 'i'll play what i fucking want' before launching into deanna.
great stuff.
Overcome with envy that you've seen him live. I quite often stick on the Brixton Academy gig for 'that' version of Stagger Lee - it's offensively brilliant, and the band are breathtaking.
Ooo enjoy the book! Reckon you'll love it!
Beg to differ - as poets, we can make up all the words we bloody well choose to. I made up 'shittens', so 'Caveian' is now in the lexiconnnn! :D
ps - a good friend of mine once used 'drim' in her poem, to describe the weather, and the printer changed it to 'grim' even after she'd proofed 'drim'. She was well pissed off!
thanks both!
i have never read that laura and i cant believe i have not. i have seen nick cave in concert (i sat next to my emotional man friend stefan who cried like a baby when he played the ship song) and it was phenomenal. murder ballads is an astonishing album and this poem is totally caveian although that isnt a word...
i am ordering that book off amazon as we type.
Sanguine - an under-used word if ever there was one.
Once again Stu, you've given us a crack in the door to something very strange and unsettling, in the vein of Nick Cave, I would say. You ever read And the Ass Saw the Angel?
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Stu Buck
Thu 7th Apr 2016 14:31
saw it at the cinema. it was great. like looking in a mirror and seeing cave staring back.