Dominant culture is fucking boring
an/aesthetic
Joey Frances
bcuz domination is fucking boring
I’m trying to construct full desiring
subjectivities it hurts like before
digital radio I can't
This couple across from me on the bus talked
sluggish and scattergun who uses that brothel
just students messing a sauna used to cater for
yknow people curry night out
Unlike many corporate
businesses we have a strict dress
down policy a cool office with
a putting green even beers
in the fridge I fucking hate
you confront me with your inner life
*
aesthetic of work
wedding receptions
on coal canals
aesthetic of suffering &
sadness, or the thing
aesthetic of resistance
#makeitright
aesthetic of the collective
aesthetic
of
aesthetic of hanging
& hoping our love can
build on its
own
aesthetic of our love
aesthetic of funk, or
the funk, etc
imagine liking Glenn Miller
*
Be a symbol Be a symbol Be A Symbol
& I thought about them fucking & wondered
how they liked to do it and if it made them feel
useful & whole
*
aesthetic of making
together
of plant pot
of what i want
to know is
authentic of
aesthetic of god
lol the
aesthetic world of arthur
brown
aesthetic of self
contained unit
shifter
of nothing
material
unequally distributed
aesthetic
*
…the people who control shit are boring pricks
On the grass by the Sagrada
Familia a young woman
takes a photo of a polaroid
that leer across the bus shelter when
i’m only trying to get quietly home
*
aesthetic of tarmac
aesthetic of topiary
crushed
petals top
soil
astro turf
*
I was looking for a Job and then I found a Job
yesterday I called it a monument to the projection
of the individual ego and I hated it
(turns out he really believed that serve the Lord
shit, bread, fruit, tree o life, the snake
is only a husk of doves, projections all
together)
I can’t stand
we don’t think
towers to the human
mind are daggers the rich
consciousness is a pig too
paupers poor
*
aesthetic of ecstasy
smiley face
*
& I cried insufficiently
Radica lise ,ur friends & lovers s)isters
brothers /ur fathe’rs mothers
colleagues comrades customers
& Others
I feel
alone
Joey Frances has studied, written and read poetry in Cambridge and Manchester, UK, where he is now based. His poetry has appeared on The Red Ceilings and in the Manchester Poets Declare a No Spy Zone anthology. He is a member of the Manchester based Generic Greeting Collective, a multi-disciplinary, collaboration focussed art collective with whom his work has appeared in exhibitions and zines. He helps to organise the Peter Barlow’s Cigarette reading series. Joey Frances is online at genericgreeting.co.uk and bubblethesedatasets.tumblr.com and @JoeyFrances.
