Saturday, November 20, 2004
Showmercy
posted by John Davies at 7:53 PM
Another satisfying Goodison afternoon, the win made even better by purchasing the latest When Skies Are Grey, a happy fanzine just now with a great centre-spread from the Good Rumour Man (35 Everton rumours including, 2. Thomas Graveson has no big toe on either foot; 16. When Alan Stubbs went to St Kevin's, he had the choice of joining Bolton Wanderers or China Crisis. The rest is history; 27. Former Wimbledon goalkeeper, Hans Segers, was paid to "throw" the vital match in May 1994 which saw Everton escape relegation by the skin of their teeth.....)
And WSAG put me onto showmercy.co.uk. Mercy is a Liverpool-based project specialising in "less mainstream" cultural commentary. Their site has a good words section, including this (untitled), by Nick Holloway:
"To hell with culture, culture as that added like sauce to otherwise unpalatable stale-fish." - Eric Gill
soon no more lennon
leatherclad and wearing the wrong haircut
no scars on walls from binbags
set alight by scally lads
no tanning beds
or hungry lunchhours lost thereon
no barely-middays or bad men who shudder
no liverbirds or
are-you-looking-at-my-bird?s
no more reinventing the hangover
no faces unsure of low-flying planes
no tanks outside of airport gates
no demolition teams
and cranes
and no more newlyweds
who wander worry-headed
and wonder
will the washer-dryer last longer than love will?
'cos one day soon
the cathedral will rise up on caterpillar tracks
and roll like the holiest of battletanks
to sweep the lot of liverpool
in to the river
and away
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john davies
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