Steve Coel - Born in the Workhouse

Works like a dream...the city is littered

with used up cars...too many lost people

just wandering around...nervous landscapes...

there's plenty to do when you needs to 

be doing more...you looks like yous

broken into your own brown pin stripes...

too many keyholders and kerbside visits.

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Born in the Workhouse

Steve Coel

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Born in the Workhouse

Steve Coel

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Born in the Workhouse

Steve Coel

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Born in the Workhouse

Steve Coel

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Born in the Workhouse

Steve Coel

Busy in the studio

working on

Born in the Workhouse.

These pictures / illustrations

are 120 x 80 [ approx. ].

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Steve Coel - Born in the Workhouse

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Born in the Workhouse

Steve Coel

Born in the Workhouse

Steve Coel

Photographs

torn,

show 

long 

dead 

faces,

long 

forgotten 

dreams.

Clothes,

ragged

with 

age

lie

with

shoes

torn

from

play.

And
young

harsh 

eyes

glare 

suspiciously,

revealing

dark

rainy

days

and

long

hot

summers

all

faded.

Busy putting together
ideas for
Born in the Workhouse [ 2019 ].

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Steve Coel - Born in the Workhouse

heb deitl

Born in the Workhouse

Steve Coel

Busy in the studio.
Putting together ideas for
Born in the Workhouse [ 2019 ].
This is likely to include: film
making of some kind, short performance 
pieces as well as microflashfictions.
Trying to keep it all under control
should be fun.

I'm guessing here!

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Rust on Cloth [ Re-visited ]

Born in the Workhouse

21018

Steve Coel

Rust on Cloth

[ Re-visited ]

Steve Coel

You walks along striding lengths
of vacant brick walls
where even today 
you never sees new cars.

Sliding past
dark pub windows 
that shield sun and rain
and bad dreams,
you gets the full yeasty blast 
of damp cloth and old men 
sharing old stories
over warm beer
and brown fingers. 

Working in the studio on ideas for
Born in the Workhouse [ 2019 ].

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Steve Coel

Born in the Workhouse 

2018 - 2019

Steve Coel

Multi Media Project 2018 - 2019.
Busy in studio.
Lots of writing.
Lots of picture making.

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Steve Coel

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The Wolf Within [ Re-visited ]

21918[i]

Steve Coel

The Wolf Within, originally published
in Chiselled Anthems way back when, 
was written after a walk 
down the Old Kent.
Take a look around, some things 
truly do not change.

The Wolf Within [ Re-visited ]

Steve Coel

Orange medicine cups 
litter this early 
morning park pavementing 
cardboard homes hiding 
in scraggy bushes. 
And shelters, carefully 
built on benches 
are being pulled 
down for the 
day. Plastic sheets 
hang on trees 
drying as the 
mud splattered newly 
drunk sleep in 
the field before 
breakfast.

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Scratches jotted on car handles

4/9/18

Steve Coel

Scratches jotted on car handles.

Steve Coel

' Just the one more time. Every time.'

You walks ahead so you can keep an eye on his back. Even now,

now when yous both been on the outside 6 months.

And yous still wearing trademark greys and parallel pockets

with your newest clasp. 

Like all bad habits, is difficult to break.

We sees your interesting walk straightaway. Looks like yous

both walking at the same pace. But you isn't. Is trick 
you needs to learn. Brings unneeded attention if you 

looks like yous running. 

Which you is really. 

Even so, yous brave. Got to be round this way. 

Thing is, yous both got to try harder to stop being 

this stupid. Although, fair dos, everyone knows two heads 

is better than one. 

So well done there.

Is clear peoples got to break you up if theys going to 
get better deal than you. And thats how it always starts.
Always. Takes three to break two and four to break three 
and so on. Is how wars start.

So; twos easier to deal with. Trust like.

'Knows where you stands with two.'

[ Draft ]

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Steve Coel

ymadawiadau

[ 120 x 80 ]

Steve Coel

'...his hand knows where to go to for a song...

[ Desolation Angels, Kerouac ]

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Y Diwrnod Arall

llanw isel [ 120 x 80 ]

Arfordir Byw

Steve Coel

Y Diwrnod Arall [ 2018 ]

The Other Day

Steve Coel

Clear you mind, listen carefully...

and don't stop breathing.

Burn Some Dust - Sweet Pearl

Spinning Top - Society Shock

Early Dawn - Star Girl

Glorious Poet - Heart Power

Desert Dream - Rebel Cause

History Writer - Midnight Gem

Fleeting Visit - Spirit Bridge

Dance Diva - Arctic Roll

Pearl Acclaim - Nitro Boost

Medal of Honour - Texas Rock

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Rust on Cloth

Taith Araf [ 120 x 80 ]

Steve Coel

Rust on Cloth

Steve Coel

[ Ideas ]

...scratches jotted on car handles...paper packed tight in glove, tears behind ears...dead jeans and dated trainers.

...catching your breath on street corners...gripping your shopping against baggy knees...spirit is ignored here...your addiction is poverty...rust on cloth.

[ Discarded ]
...the smell of wet anorak, warm beer and fuel.

[ Notes ]

[i]...tension builds up and dies away, remains static, or assumes a different pattern.

[ii]...microflashfiction involves a flash of illumination, a shock.

microflashfiction - Steve Coel

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