Name: flowerbed
Duration: P00H06M35S
Description: about a friend, someone who "sometimes walks with her arms crossed". Perhaps something corny about people being unknowable, and trying to breach that unknowability by imagining oneself as the other. Or summat. Eating chips in a graveyard was a nice line salvaged from a much older song, and something I've done with pleasure several times.

flowerbed

from not it (1999) by nev clay

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about a friend, someone who "sometimes walks with her arms crossed". Perhaps something corny about people being unknowable, and trying to breach that unknowability by imagining oneself as the other. Or summat. Eating chips in a graveyard was a nice line salvaged from a much older song, and something I've done with pleasure several times.

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Her ears selectively open, her eyes selectively closed, her heart sporadically broken; her mind, only god knows. Her clothes from Mencap and Oxfam, womens' health tips from Cosmo and Marie Clare, her face from her mother and her father; her mind, she pulled from nowhere. Apparently she sleeps with her mouth open, and sometimes she walks with her arms crossed. She's not walking towards, or walking away from. She's not searching for, and she's not lost. How does the world look through her contact lenses? How do her teeth feel to her tongue? How does her skin feel to her fingers? How does her brain feel in her skull? I'm going to sit on this bench and not stand up until I've smoked this packet of tabs, and then I'm going to eat chips in a graveyard and throw the paper into a flowerbed.

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from not it (1999), released April 14, 1999

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nev clay Newcastle, UK

Nev lives near Newcastle and until 2018 was a mental health nurse. He's been clarting around the local music scene for 30 years, and once supported Keith Emerson out of ELP. Cover photo - Stan Bonnar concrete hippo, Killingworth, Newcastle, photo by Narbi Price 3 Jan 2023. Secret guitar tuning: CGDGAD ... more

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