DESPERATE FOR ATTENTION:

ATTENTION: Tonight ATTENTION: might or might not be in the

audience at a reading called Desperate For Love in Brighton.

ATTENTION: lurks in the shadowed corners of the most dimly

lit rooms. ATTENTION: will see if it wants to publish anything.

ATTENTION: might not be there or here, depending on how

ATTENTION: gets from here to there ATTENTION:

ATTENTION:

ATTENTION: do not look away, open your hands, each digit splayed, gasping. ATTENTION: burn, flay, shear the academic quagmire, the jaundiced plastic dummy inserted into the mouth that names itself 'experimental'. ATTENTION: curse your hand that lilts and wafts. ATTENTION: twist impact against itself. ATTENTION: