poem || Lawrence Upton

Archie Shepp, Chalk Farm, London February 1994

ACQUIESCE, END PRODUCT DECOROUS, CREATE LECHEROUS & SPIRITED INTIMACY, BRAINY BUCOLIC WOODED, INSINUATED MAZE

BRUISE CONSEQUENCE, DEPART, OUTCOME AFTERMATH GLOW, ENABLEMENT EXTREMIST

CRUD ID glimmer RETENTION THIN SNAPPY OPUS FORGOTTEN, FURTHERANCE DISGUISED

ABIDE, CAUSTIC FRAGMENT, PROGRESSION HAUL designated

clasp seeming brood

breath square tart unearth whippersnapper

burgle season flay remembrance

linger forerunner theorisation sprinkling division moderation

approximate lunatic racy bushed hoof

forest

disappear commending

cavort discord frenzy immoral walkway

beauty commending

bygone roam lustre power

assiduously tag neighbouring relish calm force scathing ladies' man

memorandum extinct mysterious

demand planned dynamic zesty spike cover

cliché ax

passion ultra alert inferno

age caveat lively section pudgy top whip remove lesion

country evade redundant proof sleep dash sleep trace comedienne

aromatic blackball vocabulary fame merger

exclusive lodging play check boomerang pursue ceasing

ugly abase unlucky

benevolence payment tax

breath paramour terminated

aromatic family report one-track

aromatic family report committed one-track

aromatic family report committed steam miss incorrect hapless

cloudy envoy, prolific boy

delusion scholar stride

fanatical mannerism rock

discerning piquant at least one

gulp certified shrivelled heretic

logo belly

ameliorate rugged dunk fob pipe

CARDIOVASCULAR

white obtuse improperly

ABANDON RESULT OUTGROWTH SEAPORT EMBARK RAUNCHY EXUBERANT AWARENESS DISCRIMINATING

COUNTRY PRESUMED HAZE

HURT EVENTUALITY FLY REWARD END! SMILE PREROGATIVE

EXTREME GARBAGE SELF dash REMEMBRANCE

DILUTED PUNCHY MONOGRAPH LEFT BEHIND PROGRESS DISGUISED

AWAIT HOARSE MORSEL RAMIFICATION TAKE select

arduous chariot polluted SUCCOUR ENJOYMENT SUCCUMB TATTER HARVEST

COCK ALMANAC

BEFUDDLEMENT BREAST

FERMENT LITTER EGO

CONTEMPTUOUS ASSISTANCE ACQUIESCE ACERBIC MARK CONSEQUENCE

BAN ASSISTANCE influence illusion

BELIEF RUSTIC

COCK PUBLICATION suck rob acclimatise nag

DERIVE Mystical! MEASURE SCARY naive herald guess

AMOROUS JEST CRUST albeit

BIBLE ASSISTANCE FINE approximate

ASSEMBLY wood

ASSEMBLY wood BAND wood

EMOTE & disappear

ARROGANCE HAPPINESS HEARSAY prance

FARSIGHTED AUTHOR

CHORE radiance extolling

IMMUNISE METER late traipse gloss influence

IMMUNISE METER late traipse gloss influence INJECT

a digest ANY

a digest ANY a few

written 1994 and then lost

found 2009 and tidied up; and then lost

found 2015