ABACUS ABACUS
Volume 20 1st Quarter 2010
1-ABACUS ABACUS- A Genie in a bottle Or just like a bomb again Like trying to decode a bomb Or thirteen beads on a string Forty new planets to unravel Forty Abacus beads Our logo like a Symphony By Volume Nineteen The lines and circles Swirling in their calligraphy An entire planet moving in one voice where the mood takes us An image of a life Done deliberately to make it slick a graphic design That we too well understand Some people make long journeys to get here I travel for miles just to get this show on the road The rising falling metres Combining forces As Destiny Plays into our hand Superimposed and overlapping on top of Morathi on her Dragon The forces that keep us together A many-handed twist of Fate New Creation on the screen Bold the lines with bleed under the laminate New life and new dynamics A penny coin makes the circle the lines cross at the heights 72-point Times New Roman With support we have seen A parking fine for visiting both one and then the other these girls Though nothing ever came of it I gave her every excuse Because of the snows a time to think Four weeks before I mounted my horse again We’re watching Woodstock on your broken TV
2- REINFORCE THE VIEW- Conference centre table In three episodes Aliens from outer space Try to trash our download 2010 spareroom.co.uk Uploaded some images- it was fun! Offers two beds to let Dramatic view of chairs upon the horizon No line on the horizon 2009 Enter MAGICK!!! on the website Offers hope with what we get Through my songs but in a different order Enter MAGICK!!! it says perhaps a work of Fiction perhaps a Philosophical Debate 2008 and The Wheel at Culworth Offers the widest panoramic view Duplicating images Of what developed From one spiky boot Wider and then wider again landscape shapes Maybe it is a conference All these images are available My chairs and table on the Internet What we already do Neptune Chariots for the front of the house Escape Clause through the back Live in faith and hope And dare to be bullish Intellectual Property in Cyberspace Don’t know what the conference is about
3- THE GREATER WHEEL- We have the stronghold and two other parts of town And now Full English breakfast in Holland Park Or Continental in Kensal Rise You found it for me you did On that ship the number of rooms is neverending In the Precinct before we go About our business Spied sometimes by those in Willesden Green Special Weapon’s presence felt guarding at the traffic lights Spread Westwards Another Quadrant of the Heavens too nearby I could never settle Just for life up there Or a small-town girl We both need the bigger picture The Greater Wheel The scene shifts to another part of the World My outpost near Banbury Makes us strong you know With all these celebrities on the go Someone down in Kensington takes control
4- ON THE HORIZON- After much redecorating Plenty of moving and shaking The house goes on show Lodgers again It needs to be depersonalised so I’m told Kill my Spirit why don’t you As yet four takers have been round Nothing’s bitten Here’s the Angel up in London the Gypsy in the caravan “A great social life and horses” On the Horizon Checking the website every night For unknown pleasures Like a bizarre dating game I scan for interest Male or female couples even To fill my bedrooms Busy enough to get my broadband Unlimited landline Generating information Filling up by Four Quarters 2009 I did
5- FORTUNE’S ROAD- Not far from Civilisation Misleading signs Fortune’s Road Things can go down as well as up Dodgy roadsigns at each end Spread from Culworth’s Wheel all over this scrambled tour In Warwickshire they love The young farmers- take our team into new magazines! In St Peter’s College and Polo Times and even The Daventry Express Like mighty Warriors we stand thus far alone A Warlock’s Tarot Getting a reputation A chance now for Warwickshire Life outside The Four Shires Naked but for their wellies Attack it from another angle Along Ladbroke Grove And in Kilburn too Try a new umbrella “Greedy bankers and saucy banter” Twice Sophie has grabbed the Umbrella A woman straddling a chair backwards talks to the Nation wide And now in Time Out in the Finge reviews In Northamptonshire Life they spit fur and feathers How decadent you’d say They are about to relaunch okay The ruins at Minster Lovell Never became a Cotswolds story- Whatever! Oxfordshire has since merged with them due to lack of interest But back at home in the Four Counties The cricketers have a ball On mailing lists and with an ear to the ground We have the pulse to it all I still won’t have enough to say but the prices are better Somewhere out there is Buckinghamshire
6- HOLOGRAM- Website like a holographic image Put into three dimensions for you Five avenues A horse gallops across the homepage and Sky Burial news And turning pages in books move Doing what I want to do Three marbled green wallpapers One starry night One white And walk free like a pentagram again Out the other side of the mace The ball with spikes A crown upturned upon another Witha handful of dice inside Like a box full of celebrations Offer up our recollections Rollercoaster ride! Offers new surprise The shape is like an hourglass clenched in the middle tight A gold coin hidden in its middle Bitch Magnet for the Money Like Diamond Diamond Diamond but not sorrow Tonight
7- CHARLIE AND SALLY- You’re not responsible for giving birth to my children Even though you might be their Mum Cally like Lucy from Peanuts The Doctor is in 5c Psychotherapy now apparently The Book of Thoth that Charlie borrowed has landed back on my doormat again Several years later Did it mean anything to him? Chris’ help with the horses Has a ponytail this year For every dark one there’s always a blonde Waiting round the corner Anubis is like Snoopy Woodstock flits about our heads Linus Pigpen and Patty Anubis with his jackals howling Of the going away and the return Creates plot lines for other people Nephythys never gave Set a child but one to her brother she married instead
8- DODGE CITY- This trip to London started with 20 quid to buy a drink Not to shoot myself in the foot I accepted 60 grabbing the opportunity And then he whispered me out For a cigarette And made it up to a ton “Go off and see Sophie” he said “Have fun!” Someone else with “Arsewipe” on the cheque that I got reluctantly from her Five purple twentys Four pink fiftys Three crispy fivers With the help of good friends we’ve pulled together For the love of my life they’ve made it easier Like the Twelve Days of Christmas Just thank God we’ve got good friends who’ve helped to bale me out A big bearded bushy redhead I got to go to the Ball Saturn is his name Drives to the pub in his “fuck off” Roller Cars and engines his game The Machinery of the Universe Deals in relationships just the bloody same!
9- STAR WARS- Very subtle small changes can make it work or no Why so temperamental Why so sensitive Why so easily offended These computers Mine glitches all the time Jacen and Jana kids of Han and Leiea Bring it on But the Empire of the Tarot And the Empire of Star Wars Are they just the same? For one is dark and people prefer to see The rebel alliance on top of the tree But not the Dark Side are we We are on the same side but maybe we aren’t really Landing craft of the Imperial Command Made of Lego My Christmas present To Orlando India and Sholto Children of Nuith With a can of Lancaster Stew!
10- PROMOTION- Samantha likes to do it after a bath Samantha recommends A few ingredients before satisfied Ecuadorian shell-on prawns Brand Strategies Aviator shades for all the coolest chics Products you swear by Herbal Essences 100% waterproof mascara Organic soya milk What gets you up there at peak performance Boots and good legs The best bum in the business! Building on our Empires They won’t just let us sell for an easy life Got to try to accumulate more Because she loves me Moley I can’t be mean to her For when it’s going well For when it’s going badly From a website to a flyer to a promotion To a show This is how it works though
11- BODY OF WORK- Enter MAGICK!!! Has three exclamation marks But Shazaam!!!! has four Balanced across from “My Tarot in the Garden” and poetry You’re not superstitious are you don’t be scared of it anyway And above “The Wheel at Culworth” pics A politician the Emperor so With two bands in the middle updated And Happiness below Life in this country since the New Millennium as we know “Two” for Purification and “Diamond Diamond Diamond” in the Sky A virus to tackle with And an abacus you see And a pentagram walks on by A pentagram walks free As Happiness led to a Rainbow- a Covenant for us all Knight of Cups chasing Rainbows to Queen of Wands sitting pretty Storms led to Dominion and we moved the story on Some sort of Philosophy The Thirty Misadventures of Jonty Wain The Thirty Misdemeanours Sophie with a play The Chalice enlarged from miles away Five books and a Tarot guide before the numbers start Now thirty outings and Enter MAGICK!!! In a quest for Art Some ideas developing With movement Creating a Direction Pushing up in the top right of the screen Fairly solid the foundations We can make things a little bit better organised This is where we start As it has become video footage It finds me battling to pay my way The thirty hexes and curses that have plagued our years The hook-armed Muslim cleric Abu Hamsa feeds his congregation Fraudulently on the dole Inner Temple Inner Circle Who knows what goes Grown upon a tetra dish All this meat and bones
12- FLY- Paradise, Ravenous, Inn on the Green, Metropolitan, Camden Head and the Library we’ve seen...Fly... Agree to buy some of our stuff We’ve had enough of yours I’m looking for a weekly squeeze To pay the bills of course Just one more person Ticked off the danger list Just one more person No longer at risk We could pursue this A woman with her corset And a man clutching a crucifix- hang on in there! Ward off evil clove of garlic Forget everything and just listen As she plays her tricks What goes on stage Doesn’t tell half of it A lot of things came to a head at the time of “Pantheon” That is why I do not wear my Dukes of Hazzard teeshirt She is blinding Sekhmet she is Line up our venue strategy for us Back off before the stalker alert starts ringing All the attention coming at her She will put out She will filter
13- RELY- Don’t tell a soul about it No word about your plight Where the money comes from And our fortunes as you might Might get a little sympathy And honesty always pays But admitting to going too far Downhill Opens up a maze However a success story Perhaps a minor coup Will get them jealous once again The right thing to do Muddled we muddled through and rely on each other
14- TOUR THE STREETS OF MILLIONS- Lancaster Road next to Sophie’s place Daventry Road near Marylebone Saved to be on a Crisis Even though away from home Up on Marylebone How I had the train fare is another story Cash in another giro In a post office on the Edgware Road Signing on even though on tour Life has found me at your door It always goes 50-50 But they agreed to make the loan Hanging on adrenaline on my phone Tour the streets of millions Flash my driver’s licence in my wallet at them They think I’m a police officer you know Mounted or otherwise I sense the danger because I am alive Security definitely- I want peace at home Bodyguard maybe mounted if necessary for several different people already Makes me wonder what This government is- what you see on TV- what you see on the street- Support the government for my dole Do it for my rock and roll But they do support our cause If not one way then another For our employment our support Trust me to keep an eye on things It’s you I’m looking after We can do this with it If we have the money Ride all the horses for Entertainment simply Ride you just for Devilment- Exhibit, Rocky, Annie, Petanga, Diabla, Petrola, and Rosa Negra
15- OPINIONS- This planet gets spots New problems every day Tony and I crank out feedback Up in the attic We’re rockstars again Punisher and Celestine Hold us in their sway Reeling in the aftershock Of their decisions made Some other girls opinionated Change the News at Ten And how to deal with these situations Suddenly becomes plain As 30,000 troops storm Afghanistan I wonder what is the solution Or where the Human Rights Campaign
16- THEY ARE IN A LINE- Nine Volumes now since Sky Burial Last recorded Delve deeper if you dare Just because I could not afford it A feeble reason there Purification of Darkness came together for three songs In the last Quarter of that year But even that seems unlikely Now that Inhale the Carnage is here Samantha’s Hotline moving on Is hitting Islington Maida Vale and Kensal Rise “Pushing North, my Lord”, she says Pushing back the frontiers Under Birmingham they are in a line From the Centre of the Universe Reaching out in different directions in different destinations In Westbourne Park we arise Gems from the Equinox in the window brooding lies Forget the warzones for a moment this is the shape of England
17- FILMING- Silver jewellery like Lucky Charms Can distort the recording camera disc Distort the magnetism Enlightened means usually Enlightened of money What we bring to the party Can’t doom us all surely We still get out there somewhere Don’t let the coffee give you the shakes Stand up and don’t lean on anything You’ll never find her number hidden on my phone Her number Is not for you to know Don’t invade my privacy by going on my phone Head and shoulders I go up close Lights on either side No shadow on your face Don’t forget the cable ties Watch the movies for research Search for camera angles
18- IT’S A MOVEMENT- We didn’t flip the Sky Burial numbering sequence Until after Charlie and I Had stopped recording A little too late...Bustling through the City With new-found purpose It’s a movement it’s a conference call It’s a movement that involves us all Where is it picking up now Pray tell Always come up against you When I try to sell Diamond Diamond Diamond, SpareRoom, Enter MAGICK!!! and Purification Two need binding together quite soon Bind it up and put it to bed another chapter closed What led us into a new decade and The Hotline too
19- BALANCING- In the morning every day My phone texts me My available credit Running on the front line But I’ve got debts I haven’t got savings That I am wondering how to repay When was the last time I saw some money Maybe on the door for your show Maybe on a Crisis Loan
20- OPEN DOOR- Try to be as open to as many ideas Receptive as Approachable ( then not so ) more Marketable Sometimes difficult getting even one more into the equation I gave my cottage the best write-up Possible But only four people have come so far Were you worried It would be too much of a party And secretly hoping no-one would bite Because then I’d have my freedom again But I would see you right It has got my stamp on that house How to improve it quite Moon waxes from right to left The Angel Death attempting to crack The bright lights of the Big City Luxury Safari I enjoyed it that’s the main thing If anyone else picked up on it so much the better
21- 2010 TOUR- Another tranch of gigs we’ll see Albert and Pearl and The Library Up in Islington again William IV by Kensal Green Loyalist Paramilitary? In Maida Vale The Elgin Good for stand-up Comedy And the Freedom Bar in Soho- “Straight Friendly” Now she has let me move in Two days after Valentine’s 2010 A time to play at Kings and Queens A time for sponsored rides We should have done this years before But we didn’t At some point we both wanted our Space And it fact it has been Quite an informative dance Around the hotels and hostels of West London for me Lonely Planet London Scene Straight past the Walmer Castle to Bayswater Don’t go the other way- It’s rough
22- BEADS UPON A STRING- Seven banking considerations Two taxes Three utilities And a car A licence for the TV To be in on that thing And a broadband connection Because we generate enough interest We are too busy now down here I can’t be reliable Formatted Formatted Into a winning formula Have it framed and put it on your wall
23- LEAVING A SECURE CONNECTION- Space Trash going through these airports Tired and dusty and dysfunctional In the Corridors of Power go Blacked-out windows The whole place is empty But glamour shows Where to be this time Pursue our leads And clutch at straws Keep it on a high Volumes 10, 11, and 12 are misconstrued You are about to leave a secure connection if you visit my site Cheetah Leopard or Lion A lot of people that haven’t had children Opening comments to Volumes 6,7,8,9 and 10 Volumes 9 and 10 crash and burn together Up there on the screen
24- CURVING INWARDS CURVING OUTWARDS- Solve our carbon footprint by going on the train Broadband connection Black and sexy Collects information From across the galaxy Curving inwards Curving outwards Drawing down processing sending out my take My docking stations Above the hub and to its side and in the kitchen too Sends out sounds across the Nations Instant speeds even on images Unlimited talk time free anytime calls Online and on phone both at once Generating enough interest To upgrade again A third charger for my mobile in my bedroom One always packed in my bag Getting stimulation Wireless for my spare rooms Now I’v even got wireless landlines too I don’t have to jump out of bed to talk to you
25- MOVEABLE FEAST- Mortgage interest relief at source Properties of other interest Contributions based of course I’ve paid my contributions Jobseeker if no Employment and Support Now I’ve signed in London And Banbury too Moveable Feast Best get those problems fixed straight away And promise to pay it soonest A top table full of bright ideas Could come in gratefully appreciated Some new slogan I’m looking for Try and be promising on a new teeshirt A bit Knockabout really Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Spinal Tap reality We’ve just done it how we wanted it to be Take you all up with me Frequently white and the girls are all pretty We have to fight our corner too
26- ALL THE FINGERS AND TOES- Ten years on that magazine Looking back what fun it’s been And how has it gone so fast?Looking back to see what stuck Helps me to move Next point of focus Dancing on tiptoe all the time Head up in the Sky Like some two-man band trawling the streets of London In as many pies as me The Mermaid holds her hand of cards tight now The hands of the Mermaid The toes of the Fool The fingers of the Mermaid paw at the Crystal Ball Little frames in my bedroom too Of Alison Cally and Jessica Little frame of my Taroo gripped in my hand Scared of dying out and leaving no trace behind Of me on this land Kicked off the Planet Writer then Actress Not Writer or Actress Doesn’t split you in half Sharp focus and Photogenic Magazine quality Four little frames that have gone I try to ignore The recruiters that have rejected me thus far Maybe in tiny little frames “My Hand”, My Toes on the grass Green frames for my green office room Green for the open fields Green on green Snot and Scaly and Scorpion
27- RED THE COLOUR OF DEATH- Don’t leave yourself short Don’t deny yourself anything We caused the 9/11 The Twin Towers of me and you We’d split up not long though We caused the Recession too Just by buying Or when liquid bombs nearly delayed our flights back from Johannesburg The luggage piled high back at Heathrow Never forget that porn mag The bloke with the long hair And his wife A celebration of their relationship Or ours Rescued from a room clearout To survive in yet another pile But not mislaid or thrown away Fond memory of where we get to You and I- this one we are in together- with some of our talents- Ready to pull we’ve rehearsed our lines Frame us for when we have appeared In Time Out for the first time In the listings page in Fringe Theatre Frame the Fenny Farmers Why Hello There Cowboy! What colour is out? What Scale for these two together It’s not Pink no never Red down the hallway for the Corridors of Power Red the Colour of Death
28- UP AGAINST IT WE PUSH- We’ve just passed hit 1666 On my Website The Year of The Plague And of The Great Fire of London The year of The Plague Stone in my garden On the card marked “Death” A mild form of leprosy Like the King of Jerusalem Like “the Angel Death” in my white leathers Unwilling to surrender In my Fraggle Rock teeshirt Bringing a band to the slaughter Like bringing “Samantha’s Hotline” to the outside world Push my beads along the wire Try and push a flyer No escape from a budget for anybody No escape from a Government List
29- RECAPTURE- Rune number 13 The car it seems Insurance tax and MOT All those Kings of England Made friends with me New Era Millennium Circus A whole host of characters are we Gods and Emperors and Royalty You know what they say Sometimes when God closes a Door Satan opens a Window These are all just observations No song lyrics for a while now Perhaps there is nothing much more to sing about This story behind the Hotline We’re sending her out now Swapping silver discs about I migrate to a new star Nobody else seems to be doing anything Nothing to compare Don’t miss next week’s exciting adventure All my fresh vegetables laid on the side in the kitchen
30- FEAR NOTHING- Cryogenic specialist Bringing replicants to life Hunched over his console Burning discs for us As Albany is to Lancaster Gonoril, Regan and Cordelia The Duke and Duchess shoot each other The rest is Tragedy Shakespeare has come true Fear Nothing Don’t be afraid of anything Fear Nothing Be afraid of the void Ming the Merciless and his daughter She is sex magick erotica Somewhere Cornwall A King of France A Duke of Burgundy Gloucester gets his eyes scratched out The Walrus and The Carpenter
31- FOCUS- Turn up to be spoken for At a “Samantha’s Hotline” gig We beat a path to your door Only a few dare come to see Exclusive for VIP’s like a disgraced gameshow host like a pop star that manacled a man to the wall The Reign of Terror has begun “Sophie’s Stardom” Volume16 Where she burst onto the scene Check the camera battery level Surviving somehow so it seems Please switch of your mobile Discs available in the foyer They might pick up on quite a lot of our relationship from watching your show Intelligently filmed I would say A bit of a focus between me and you Want to pull the focus tighter Steady shot option off is worse Infrastructure really means All the Horse Yards where I’ve been Such simple procedures thwarted so easily By a computer not responding Another 30 poems or so in this book this Quarter
32- BETTER LOVE THAN WAR- Like walking past A muslim woman in a veil To suddenly feel the danger We don’t know how lucky we are We’ve got something better To send out Than Guns and Ammo A witch with my steaming cauldron Steaming cauldron too for the Supreme Sorceress Of pasta shells and baby new potatoes Irish stews chicken tikka masala Prawns and Bombay Aloo Come round again to something else Recipes new since “Empress Scale” Bacon and egg sandwich and a coffee £1.50 opposite the Jobcentre Playing Risk! for real With people’s lives And countries on the Globe
33- IMAGINATION-
Words and pictures on a flat screen In 2-D A document for you Something you can
see Video too but moving Audio from the speakers comes Dimensions new Something
you can listen to Sculptures solid objects are Something you can touch and feel
I have some experience In these fields (Mostly on horseback) And some on these
streets Punch and Judy (hopefully not) Rules the TV Alice and the March Hare
Say one thing and then the opposite Got away with some of my stuff Even in the City Taking shape
outside of me We all put up a fight for what we believe is cool or not If you
can’t explain yourself to someone else All your ideas are Nothing
