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Minion - Kiera Coward Deyell

from Faultline by Lisa Fannen and...

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  • Faultline is a collection of poetry published by Active Distribution/Sto Citas, November 2018. The poems are political and personal (and an examination of where those territories meet), observational and contemplative, and travel through explorations of social inequality, police violations, street homelessness in the US, environmental disaster, intimate experiences of queer sexuality, rites of passage and bereavement, also the power of guidance and renewal. Paperback, 127 pages.
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Minion

This thundering volume
people tight in the economy
carving out career paths, selling their skin
bound like wire, heart race, heat and 11 hour days.

The bird flight beneath the bridge, a gull
the huge swollen Thames tide licking at the steps
I catch the occasional sky, glance up
look
see
Venus is still there.

It's young men mostly
tired eyes
raking from the filthy streets
commission
of other people's insubstantial shelter.

Lungs undone, the air in between the chase
of the road and the coming night time
holding bunches of keys at the steering wheel

You slam the car door
you have a new coat
you say to yourself that
your job is never the same thing every day
you like working with people
you like working out and about
that I can contact you on your mobile
from 8 am til 9 at night.

We see, flat viewing —
a picture frame, family photos, kitchen things
plasma TV, a drinks shelf, different shaped glasses.

Next — one family in 2 box rooms
3 toddlers (small shoes lined up in the bedroom)
close up to the TV
and the landlord arriving
just as we are leaving.

Everybody owns nobody owns anything
people the world over
hocking their teeth to pay the rent
the market cushioned in casual clothes here.

The land and life that is stolen
and sold back.

That you are a seller.

Step out of the car
the children are clapping
the children are clapping and singing
bags on their backs
all their lives ahead of them.

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from Faultline, released May 22, 2020
Voice recorded by Jer Reid.
Sound produced and mixed by Kiera Coward Deyell
Kiera Coward Deyell
Kiera Coward Deyell is a sound engineer & sound designer, born and based in London. She has designed, installed and performed sound in many spaces across the U.K. and is one of the founding members of Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.).

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