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" ...only to be rediscovered some years hence and acclaimed as a flawed but magnificent work of genius long after I have succumbed to a tragic, unrecognised and untimely death."


Homepage Poems - L.O.V.E. Love - Love T.K.O. - A Quick Word with a Rock and Roll Late Starter Songs - Song Lyrics Novels - Super-8 - Press Release - Hobart Paving Wizki Tales Sleepwalker - Episode 1 Screenplays - Counterfeit - Blue Bayou (with Keith Potter) - Night in a Strange City - Kyle and Dora - An Hour Too Early - Money River - A Cold Hard Sun - Bestest Friends - Celebrity Elder Male Sibling Eamonn Korner's Big Book of Poems (with Jason Dunne) - My Fair Lady - Drugs - Audition - Freemason - Balaclava - Scoop - Awards Short Stories - The Day Steven Farrell Became Available - When Dad Got Stuck In My Chair - My Little Brother Likes To Roar Short Movies - Cafe (flash) - Wizki and His Love of Biscuits - Cafe (film) - John Fyfe, the Movie (5Mb) - Eamonn Korner - Title Sequence (4Mb) - Nuts and Sluts (4Mb) - Wupping (11Mb) Creative Interviews - Tracey Sinclair Odds and Ends - Reviews etc - Odds and Ends	From: "Lights On Barkhouse" Mainline The hazy days of summer And the wasps are on the prowl Colliding with the light bulb And crash burning to the ground The children of the Congo The same are facing death From Militia from Rwanda Or being sinfully underfed The Fat Cat from the City Takes the Whizz Kid for a drink He’s doomed to find his mainline From his elbow to his wrist There’s problems thrust upon you And you’ve problems of your own The Students in the Gardens Start to move a little dope Lithuanian Refugees Take a lilo cross La Manche I’ll slip on my new running shorts To lose a little paunch The Woman from the Cakeshop Slips a twenty from the till Doomed to find the mainline From her shoulder to her wrist Money goes to money And the Earth gets its rotation The escalating dynasty of alienation Etna’s spewing lava And mudslides hit Taiwan Bacteria past the tropo-pause Shows life beyond these lands A breeze rolls up my newspaper As I stand to stretch my legs The drive-by’s blamed on Loyalists And a birthday ends in death In the early days of August When the wasps begin to sting My finger’s stained with newsprint And my trousers smeared with ink But the beggar in the gardens Needs money to subsist He’s doomed to find the mainline From his ankle to his wrist From the souls of his feet To his grasping, greedy, grabbing, grubby fingertips Money goes to money And the Earth gets its rotation The escalating dynasty of alienation	Tracks available for download From Pop Happenings Vol 4 1. Lying on the Phone 2. Wupping 3. Mirrorball 4. A Good Year 5. A Matter of Time 6. Vultures 7. My Darling 8. Hurt Another Day 9. Separate Beds 10. Left Me To Die 11. Porch Bits and Pieces How To Build An Empire Lonely Business Nuts and Sluts Crawfish's first album Pop Happenings Vol 4 is available by emailing crawfishwebmaster @btopenworld.com A Quick Word with a Rock and Roll Late Starter was published by The Rue Bella in February 2003 Buy on Amazon Super-8 was published by Kennedy and Boyd in March 2005 Buy on Amazon This week, I have been listening to: Smithylad is Crawfish is Craig Smith Smithylad's other sites Simon Armitage Web Site Hyde Park Irregulars The scheme for this site was taken from Michael Mann's design for my CD cover Some Rights Reserved

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