Your twenties are often described as the ‘Defining Decade’ or your ‘Roaring Twenties’. However, your twenties are a lot more of a rollercoaster ride than anyone ever warns you about before you enter them. So, this collection of poems is all about delving into your Turbulent Twenties and discovering your thriving and surviving moments and how perhaps they are not so different after all. If you wake up in the morning wondering what on earth you are doing with your life or worrying if you are doing your twenties all wrong, then this is the collection for you!
Every mood, every moment, every state of mind.
From silent stations to salt-filled mountains, quack shoes to demented blues.
A hedgehog construction boom built from hot beer and cold meatballs.
A journey through the bearded eyes of Sigmund Freud.
Strawberry stethoscope, ice-cream-microphone news...
'Watching a Movie?' is an additional collaborative work by Brown & Ferguson, written on January 1st/2nd 2023.
Similar in style to the poems in 'Glasgow Jukebox', if you like this, the poems in the pamphlet should suit your taste.
watching a movie
starring claude rains
it’s 2 in the morning
cannot sleep for the storm
from another dimension
with a purpose i dare not fathom
you sent
just woke up
02:13
happy new year
02:42
you sent
work on that fragment i sent you
02.59
you
the man with no structure
giving birth
to freedom’s illusion -
crucial illusion -
precious illusion -
you
who delighted the saddest of whores
you
who starved the bellies of gods
you
who sat in defunct cafes
prophetic and lonely
in the apartment,
jack lemmon
waiting for late late breakfast
brought to your table
by betty grable,
her breast
brushing your bruised face,
your hungover soul,
Reznikoff’s ghost whispers
over the last frayed edges of
your 20th century
you who
murdered the geranium
you
in a fit of humanity
you
dreamer of heavens
in the east end necropolis
tired of haunting aching nutheads
in the eyes of bela lugosi
in the hands of boris karloff
you who
saw the premonition
5.4 billion years
ahead -
the sun expanding
human race dead
universal mass extinction
you
in an orson welles fever
saw déjà vu and jamais vu
backwards and forwards
in kaleidoscope time
tripping and dripping
repetitive madness
in mobius loops
in fractals and dead air
and
universal mass extinction
you who
the naked geraniums murdered
who thought about thought
experienced thinking
about your own thinking
out in the twinkling sea
fading out, fading in ─ stretching
invisible women, translucent men
a canny man, a bonnie lassie,
those who can can, those who cannot
recant, directed by alfred hitchcock
sailing out on a boiling sea
straight into
universal mass extinction
boil ham hough
for a fine pot of soup, winter soup
full of dark matter and cosmic gloop,
baby here it comes
space time collapsing
in a science-fiction-song of
universal mass extinction
the resurrection -
the invisible man -
prowling empty streets
in a crowded city
ready to strangle
a gaggle of necks
ready to laugh
at the shaken, confused
claude rains, wearing a pirate hat,
his hidden face,
his body melted
- sun eating him up -
eating the geraniums
the silent murderers
who do not think about thinking
do not think about chewing the cud
every atom bomb gone
off ─ you who
had the premonition
you who
lived in the future
ravaged the present
dismembered the past
free at last
peace at last
gone at last
the credits
are for ever
at an end ||/\\/\||
After being in abeyance for some time following the death of co-founder Graham Brodie, Jim Ferguson has in August 2021, published two pamphlets as outlined in the poster below: both pamphlets, Kirsty Taylor's 'Turbulent Twenties' and Ferguson's '12 Dead Keys' can be purchased here for £5.99 including postage, in the UK.
Contact Jim Ferguson by email: jimfer1961@yahoo.com