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Caffeine & Concrete Conversation, concrete poetry and vocation. Without ego, or patronising but always passion.

Beginning with some Concrete Poems, Caffeine & Concrete became an idea for a magazine centered around discussions with people who, in very different ways and in very different arenas have built lifestyles that transcend the norm and help them produce great work. People who don’t label themselves “entrepreneurs” or “creatives”, just those who tell you what they do as if it were the most normal thin

g in the world. Far from the water-cooler's triviality, these are the people we long to meet over caffeine, and share small intimate moments, because they inspire us.

Bars.Guardians and prisoners forlornUniformed and in uniform.Four walls, four fences, four streetsKeep an eye open each ...
07/09/2024

Bars.
Guardians and prisoners forlorn
Uniformed and in uniform.
Four walls, four fences, four streets
Keep an eye open each as they sleep
Routines of the restless, promptly repeat
tick and  tock and beep
Wrapped clerks and captives
In cell blocks or cubicles trapped in
Grid carpet and slow clocks
Don stripes and knots
Wait on timed locks.
The world, once infinite, stops.
Both warden and con,
Large or small, within a box.
Watcher and watched,
Decisions each botched.
Through mirrored glass or barred windows,
Playing a six shooter roulette bingo
Whilst praying to the same stars,
Beyond the tower guards, just as far.
Not only above, but around,
On one within them, held down.
The joys among them, also here
But terrors upon them, also near.

Abrasive.
19/03/2024

Abrasive.

Em—patheticWhite like lies, medics and sheet framed ghosts,Plagiarised prose only calloused hearts boast.Frights of fact...
17/01/2024

Em—pathetic
White like lies, medics and sheet framed ghosts,
Plagiarised prose only calloused hearts boast.
Frights of facts, and jabs, and screeches
Wager zero-sums on idol speeches.
Swarm wraiths to clip the rose of its prickle,
Blood—red upon a hand but not of its trickle—
From faiths misplaced in verbal placebo,
Floods across the polarity of good and evil,
Yet never do devils dare dance at the source,
Lecherous for nothing but pernicious force.
Set neither are angels aloft its antipode,
Trepidatious in trust but for charismatic lode,
Echoing on for generations evolved savage.
Hoisting blue banners as preferences of damage,
Or heraldry in vermilion as references to trauma.
Boasting! As to chaos succumbs a delicate order.

13/01/2024

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Beginning with some Concrete Poems, Caffeine & Concrete became an idea for a magazine centered around discussions with people who, in very different ways and in very different arenas have built lifestyles that transcend the norm and help them produce great work.

People who don’t label themselves “entrepreneurs” or “creatives”, just those who tell you what they do as if it were the most normal thing in the world. Without ego, or patronising but always passion.

Far from the water-cooler's triviality, these are the people we long to meet over caffeine, and share small intimate moments, because they inspire us.