The Why I Hate England and Book Burning Literary Festival

RE: Member by Miriam (mim) King August 2020 Standing at the doorway, …..waiting….. a coming back together, the pieces joined into a - picture, a memory. I re:member – eyes I re:member – words I re:member – textures I re:member – touch I re:member – sounds I re:member – joys I re:member – sadness I re:member – expectations I re:member – disappointments I re:member – surprises I re:member – delight I re:member – knowingness I re:member – …….being…. 1/ Re: Member – Clouds, floating in blue through the fringing of the pram hood. 2/ Re: Member – The flap, flop, whack, splat, fall – squelch, squash, then something on the table, too high up for me to see, other than newspaper wrapping up a…something and it turning, red. 3/ Re: Member – Picnic blanket army surplus, too little to yet speak words,  and falling back, rough grey sides around me- soft sky above,  sand dune below. Being swung from side to side, like a forgotten jam pot or depos...

by Mim King/ September 2019   DIS DAS DOS!!! Remember – NOT to dismember limber limbs.   Conjoined joined joints arms and legs lagging memory holding together a gathering of gaily garnished garters, girding against: Leg dropping off… PLIP  PLAP   PLOP – Arm armoured against the gravity grabbing ground.   Being, a member of a humanity That must remember, NOT to dismember.   Not to be part of the party? Remember to be a member! Pleasingly peacefully parting into unparalleled partitions! To pull apart in partial portions into memorable memorabilia of former members of the wholesome whole.   Body, dis-embodied Limbs akimbo Gashed and gored and gnarled. Trunk truncated Plump rump! Limp lump of stump.   Pull together, draw together, hold together. KEEP ON keeping on, HOLD ON to holding on. DIS DAS DOS!!! Remember (especially in September) NOT to dis member.