Flypaper
A Crown Cinquain Inspired By What I Saw Over Waterstones In Newcastle
Introduction
I think Emerson Chambers is one of the most impressive buildings in Newcastle, and it is occupied by Waterstones.
It's currently having work done, so you cannot see this magnificent frontage. I saw the scaffolding and the men in it made me think of flies stuck on flypaper and so from that we get a crown cinquain
The music is "The Fly" by The Joshua Trio.
Flypaper
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High Up
Scaffolding Raised
Like A Metal Prison
Workers Held There Like Orange Flies
Waiting
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Waiting
For Instructions
O'er Emerson Chambers
Where Waterstone's Book Can Be bought
By All
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The Men
In Bright Orange
Like Flies Trapped, Unmoving
As They Work To Renew And Clean
The Stone
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They Climb
To Do Their Work
High Above Blackett Street
In Their Shiny Metal Cages
They Work
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This Cage
Of Tubular
Steel, Rising To The Sky
And Higher Than Grey's Monument
They Fly
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'20/20'
"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan7 days ago in Beat
Comments (2)
I love how you turned a bit of scaffolding into something poetic and alive
Very nice feels different slightly to your normal poetry I read it three times. It captured me and told the story well ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ