THE STARLING, 1976
It lay, like a crashed kite
Near the sports field
A cloud of marauding flies
Hovered above
the murdered starling.
At hometime
We dared one another
To poke sticks
at its stone smashed skull
During his lunchbreak
A boy named Porter
Rained missiles
on moving targets
Til, at last he scored
He coaxed girls to stare
At his artistic debut
Got turned on by their
Gasps and screams
We arrived before
The caretaker did
And swore for the first time
At the nagging insects
And I hid my sickness
laughed and continued to prod
At eight years old
my first death scene
That day I learnt of vulnerability
From a murderous joke
Of precarious existence
And the corroding of innocence
Now I Iisten for the brawling song,
Watch starlings swoop beside me,
Their chirruping code
A foretelling
Of an oncoming shower of stones
By Jay Lewis
Something you should know:
Jason Lewis is a Birmingham based music, movie and arts obsessive. Jason's encyclopedic knowledge of 80s/90s Arts films is a debt to his embedded status in the Triangle Arts Centre frontlines back then. When Jason's not watching what other people are watching, and not listening to whatever other people are listening to he's taking the time out to tell people about it on his facebook page which is well worth checking out.
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6am: Ahmed Magare - We Cannot Walk Alone »»
7am: Emma Purshouse - Mermaid on the Number 3 »»
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12pm: Hollie McNish - Honestly »»
1pm: Emma Purshouse - Five Minutes on a Midland Train »»
2pm: Rebecca Stanhope - Take Your Hands Off Me »»
3pm: Michael Pederson - Here in a Glasgow Tenement - Not Asleep, Not Awake Either »»
4pm: Glyn Phillips - Doorways »»
5pm: PixieVic - Curious Choices »»
6pm Christian Present - Poeme »»
7pm John Robinson - My Reply To You »»
8pm David Benjamin Blower - 47 »»
9pm Emma Purshouse - Feeling Low? »»
10pm Steve Pottinger - Jam today: Mrs Veronica Blake’s manifesto for a brighter future »»
11pm Jay Lewis - The Starling 1976 »»
