A Legal Fiction

 

  

by Luke Tanner


(A Lega)l Fiction
The Father And I
A History To Over(come)
A Manifest[urb]ation of disrepute

(Her)oin Man(oeuvres)
Amongst The [Tees]Side-Streets
Idea(lises) Love In Beds[l]its
In Dehuman[e]ised (Indus)trial Towns

S(tale) To The E(ar)
All T(alk) And Hedged Bets
Hopeless To Conceive
In (Trans)acted sex


French
E.I. - I.E (Internal Excitation)
Fat- Conceited person
Oeuvres - Works
Lises- Dye Sticks
Indus - Undue Money
Ver - Worm

German
Ar - Acre
Alk -Any of a series of unsaturated, open chain hydrocarbons
Bet - To Pray
Hi - Rear,behind

Italian
Era - It was
Concei- It Tans
Sto - I am
Ree - Culprits

Portugese
Amo - I Love
Opele - Skin
Ex - former
Ria - It Laughs

Spanish
Alega - It Alleges
Era - they were
He - I have
Ver - to see

 

Tanner. Drunk. Poet. Optimist. Despite such delightfully British social flaws has founded the v.i.n.t.a.g.e clothing store, played on two vinyls released this year [ Oxfam Glamour Models - Kick Out The Grams [Runner Up NME Single Of The Week] & Idiot Savant - Beams ] & begins a doctorate expanding upon where 'Towards A Literary Movement Of Comic Books' in the early 90's left off. He would One day like to blow smoke rings so poetic that cherubim himself could sleep upon them.