The bar,
always the bar
with a silent moment
straggling behind,
failing
to keep up
with the excited and bubble in nose conversation.
I always met the most
interesting,
beautiful
and charming people
nestled in the bar fly mode;
you chiefly amongst them
dear Carole Labrum…
I raise a glass and toast your honour,
to the only person that ever drove across
two states to hear me talk
and ignore
the silence
wheezing and puffing
exhausted in the background.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
It is perhaps Humanity’s greatest failing that we see something or a race of people that we don’t understand and believe ourselves to better cultured and educated than they ever could be or arguably have the right to be. It is a systematic failing, a supreme moment of arrogance that belittles us all. It makes us feel superior when we don’t have the right, an uncivilised civility that shows its self arguably more in the world of art than any other.