LPR Ensemble play The Sinking of the Titanic by Gavin Bryars
the balance right between bee and musician
XII
when did history become so thick
and fat you could no more find purchase
for thought or feeling on its moving surface
or in its soft back for your hooked head
and fingerholes than stand on soup or plot
the action in the atmosphere of each atom
on every other
stop the signing of the TPPA
The government doesn’t understand the TPPA just like you. The Prime Minister is not your representative, he is your friend and equal. A likeable guy. I pay him to be your friend, a likeable guy. You pay him too. He’s a nice guy. Tim Groser doesn’t need
coming soon
XI
things could have turned out differently
you might be forgiven for thinking
but I wouldn’t presume
if you’d taken another path
where the way forward was somehow
clearer instead of walking in deliberate
error even while knowing better it
would appear to me you had nothing
nothing left