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Paul

I am wearing an invisible badge today
coffee-crazed
in the criscrossing streets
gobbling up the sun
before it has had a chance
to streak dusty windows

the badge says don't fuck with me
or it might say sorry
or it might announce my secret name
to the participants in a game of street cricket
which seems to have been going on
forever

everywhere is a stealth marketing campaign
for newness
I apply it to my jaded eyes
like magical medicine

the dimmer switch is broken
all that passing time
was a grid with dots in each square
a backwards march
towards your arms

it's a day for travelling to every
far-flung point on our map
plotting co-ordinates, plumbing shallow yet clear depths
meters teetering on the brink of my steps
metric rhetoric encompassing the time
when my heart pointed in every direction
at once


Peter Roberts

Oxjam is Oxfam's most ambitious music event ever. They are asking everyone to get together this October to make music, raise money and help end poverty.

Oxjam is about raising money for Oxfam to tackle poverty all over the world. Supporting Oxjam helps people to earn a living; to get an education; health care; fresh water; and to grow more food.

The event will take place on the 28th OCTOBER at the MILLENNIUM HALL on ECCLESALL ROAD. There will be live music from local bands and Dj's. The event will be filmed and entered into a competition on MTV.

The aim is to raise money between £750 & £1000 so please come along, help support OXJAM and put Sheffield on the map for the top city to raise money.

£2 Donation FEE

BAND LINE UP:
Soul Commotion
The Landfills (www.myspace.com/landfills)

AFTER SET:
Fundamentalz Hip Hop/break beat
Constant Creations Hip Hop/breaks(Constantcreations.co.uk)
Dj Risco (www.myspace.com/djriscouk) Hiphop/breaks/house

Spread the word!!

www.oxfam.org.uk/oxjam Check out the Facebook group too.

In the next issue of Death to Mediocrity .......