Dimensions
135 x 215 x 2mm
German Phenomenology Makes Me Want to Strip and Run through North London
Page seven - I've had enough of Being and Time
and of clothing. Many streakers seek quieter locations
and Marlborough Road's unreasonably quiet tonight.
If it were winter I'd be intellectual, but it's Tuesday
and I'd rather be outside, naked, then learned -
rather lap the tarmac escarpment of Archway Roundabout
weearing only a rucksack. It might come in useful.
I can't take any more of Heidegger's dasein-diction,
I say as I jettison my slippers.
When i speak of my ambition
it is not to be Doctor of Letters
or to marry Friedrich Nietzsche, it turns out,
or to think better.
It is to give up this fashion for dressing.
It is to drop my robe on the communal stairs
and open the front door onto the commuter hour,
my neighbour, his Labrador, and say not hing
of what I know or do not know, except what my body
announces.
Funded by Arts Council England, The Faber New Poets programme is an exciting new venture whose aim is to create a culture of support for select new poems at pre-first collections tage. By offering a tri-partite package of financial assistance, mentorship and pamphlet publication by Faber, the scheme intends to provide care and direction to four talented new stars in 2009 with four more in 2010.
