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from Then, and Then: a memoir by DATSON

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There was a guy in a call centre opposite our window in the warehouse. He looked like Tom Cruise and spoke with his hands, convincing his headset that there was someone at the other end of the line who cared about what he had to say.

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Hey, I’m sorry about the biscuits
what, with the radio and all
I forgot

It’s strange don’t you think?

How did all this all get to be so big brother?

Why all the voting out
couldn’t we just vote in for once?

The ghost of democracy scores a TV show
It’s dumb, but I watch

How’s Brion?
I know you think he’s wrong
but just lately
I’ve been hearing his side of the story

Is the stuff about the dog true?

Went to Vic’s show at Art Veldt on Wednesday
Samo, samo. You know
‘Bourgeois Reassurism’
more theory than Einstein
and it’s small and ugly to boot
Amazes me how they ever get funding
but anyway

Max was there
blathering on about the collapse of language
I’m sure he’s right
but how do you market it?
I’ve got the reverse problem
it just costs

I ring up those chat lines
to discuss meaning
At least they listen for a while
or fake it

Hey, have you seen that new water?
I got some the other day and
can’t tell the difference
stuff you take for granted

Um, sorry about the biscuits

Hey listen
do you think that there’s something weird’s going on?
It’s about the Australian vernacular
wheat silos and all corrugated iron -
no, not really
But it didn’t used to be all lifestyle did it?
I’m not hearing it

Where’s it going?
There’s nobody out there with my voice
and I think
that I’m not the only one
You live somewhere for most of your life
making assumptions about
who your friends and neighbours are
and suddenly
you wake up one day to find
that you’ve been voted out

Hey sorry about the biscuits again
and
sorry about filling up your message bank up
with all this stuff

Have a good day.

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from Then, and Then: a memoir, released June 1, 2020
© Geoffrey Datson and Annette Hughes, Produced by Geoffrey Datson, Recorded and mixed at Greenroom Studio Cooroy.

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GEOFFREY DATSON is a sound artist, combining spoken word, electronica and instrumentation in his recordings. Many poets recite their work to music, but few are also composers. Datson's work is a synthesis of forms of sonic expression in which the voice and the sound field are interdependent. ... more

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