Rains on Me - Steve Coel



Y Llywiwr
Arbrofion gweledol / lliw
Steve Coel

Originally used on the De / City Tour,
back when.


Rains on Me
Steve Coel

Innocence doesn't exist here.
Not even for the young.
No; only dead eyes stare 
from photographs, 
taken by drunk uncles.

Here, memories of short 
goodbyes to forgotten lovers
are etched into shop fronts, dockside
and idle backyard gossip.


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The Right Shadow - Steve Coel



O ble mae'r bobl wedi mynd?
Stryd Fawr / Stryd Uchel
Steve Coel


Your actions
are dictated to you 
by a need
to survive.
They's not
the movement
of youth.
You's empty already
and you's
not even thirty.
And you's been 
desperately searching
for something to sell
rather than yourself.
Your time
is invisible time.
It's the unused time
most people leaves spare
between living.


The Right Shadow
Steve Coel

Grey, when you's staying
at Clink Hotel.
Black, when you returns home
to no fixed address.
Each casts
the right shadow,
makes you invisible.
Makes you useful.


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Eight Rooms - Steve Coel



O ble mae'r bobl wedi mynd?
Stryd Fawr / Stryd Uchel
Steve Coel


O ble mae'r bobl wedi mynd?
Stryd Fawr / Stryd Uchel
Steve Coel

Eight Rooms
[ the confession trade ]
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'...get good at anything and you will create your own enemies.'
Bukowski

extract[s].

Thing you learns, my uncle told me, is that most folk will tell you things you needs to know.
Trick is to know how to get the right information quickly.
Uncle who taught us said is just a simple matter of gentle persuasion.
Rely on your rooms to get the right results, he said.

For example, this morning only needed a plank of wood with a couple of nails and a clasp knife, and it's funny how fishing line, carefully knotted, works too. 
Eight rooms minimum is the best number in this line of business. 
We knows that. 
Used to be a trade secret.
Trusted we are. So we gets plenty of work passed on to us.
Want to find out who's been busy lately?
Bottle of whisky, a betting shop pen and padlock usually does the trick. 
First time round.
Where's the money going?
Cosy sofa, glass coffee table, bit of fake blood on the carpet, garden fork leaning on a chair...trust me.

See reputation is everything in this room game.

If you hears someone's gone missing, just spread the word, only, hint at different reason. And make it a bad one. 
Job done. 
Easy.
Things can get difficult, is a lie if you hears different because sometimes people tries it on, but is how you learn to select right room.
...All you needs really to succeed in this game is a fucking good sense of fen shui and an ability to disguise yourself like.
Stands to reason pays good.
Although hours can be pretty shit.
But if you continues to get results they says you can retire young, move on, go live in Ibiza, Canaries or some place.

It's my family business at the moment, just a job really.


Steve Coel
An 11.59 Publication