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Thursday Aug, 27., 14.30+15.30pm, Werneth Park Oldham





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Wayne Cheetham
Live recorded 3 weeks later at Jackson's Pit, Oldham RealAudio 28modem

  Fisherman catching rabbits by hook and line, a city of the past where I see the future and decide to steal what I can because soon it will be gone. A pilgrim visiting a holy relict; Wether it will be Christ's foreskin in a priceless jewelled container or a thigh bone of an apostle encased in a glass vacuumed container and paraded through streets at holy times of the year followed by monks flagellating themselves, singing of purity, immortality, love, pain of man's sins and salvation.

  The corner shop which makes its profits from alcohol, drink till you're drunk, then drink till you're drowned, council estates of Britain keeping the beer and spirits industry employed and profitable.







  Think of telephoning the president of the U.S.A. to discuss war, famine, pollution, medicine and education on a global scale.






  A traveller laughs at everything on his journey to nowhere, he laughs at me for my selfimportance and seriousness, he laughs at you for being here, he laughs at the day and the night, he laughs at your new clothes while he wears rags, he laughs at thin people who want to be fat, he laughs at fat people who want to be thin, he laughed at birth and will laugh when he dies.






  As he dies he beckons you to him to listen, your ear to his mouth, with a whisper he says my secret is the answer to your question, your secret is the answer to my question. with eyes open looking past you as if into the future and with a grin on his face he was dead.

CHOW SHALOM









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  Subconcious trawler, strong seas, who knows what the net will catch; a naval mine, a giant squid, a prehistoric creature, a blind deep sea creature, a spanish galleon's treasure chest, phoenician glass bound for Cornwall, the cassiterides of legend to be exchanged for minerals or a net full of over hished cod or herring.







  A buoy on a Lincolnshire coast, gastroped fossils in limestone, a victorian refuse dump, collapsed from the cliff edge by coastal erosion, revealling cod and ginger beer bottles.






  Belemnities point in directions of extinctions and currents flowing over them hundreds of millions of years ago.






  A patchwork of crude relativity for something that is humanely incomprehensible.




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  At night rats and mice can be heard and often seen; ferrile cats carry rats almost as big as themselves back to their kittens who will soon produce kittens of their own as the rodents continue to increase in the area; rubbish from takeaways, restaurants, cafes and household rubbish provide the rat and mice plauge a steady staple diet cats multiplying tobalance this guerilla war.

  Albino cats developing into sewer cats along with super rats and mice which the ferrile cats and sewer cats fight in underground passages; passages attacked systematically by the cats; killing the female and little more than embryonic rats and mice nests in a frenzy where non escaped from the nest sites located at the ends of passages leaving cats bloated on rat and mice meat.







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