hyperminimal hajj for a fucked country

by Simon Aulman

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No I am still convinced that I am not properly "back" and in full production - not for a while yet my lovely - this and the previous album/track are just easy quick lazy offshoots of stuff that was done elsewhere - it's the work of seconds to double something's length and zap it here.

I often still think of my week living in my car in Hull a year or two ago. I suppose I miss it. Hull was so memorable because it was and remains the most miserable city I have ever visited. The other thing I remember about the city was that when you are walking around it and you press the button at a pedestrian crossing it takes about a year and a half before the lights change and the green man lights up. I saw children grow old and die of dementia in the time it took for the green man to find the light-switch in his little round box.

Here it used to be fairly easy to stroll across the inner ring road and into the parks. Now it is wonderful appalling chaos and I actually go outside for no good reason at all - just to experience the sight of people hurdling the barriers and trying to cross the impossible lanes before they are killed. Twice recently I've seen someone in a wheelchair manage to nip out through one of the broken-apart barriers and get onto the road but then be unable to find anywhere on the other side to get back on the pavement - they've been literally wheeling for their life down the road trying to outrun an approaching bus. The workmen and the public don't know whether to be sympathetic or angry - and with who(m).

I am scared and horrified at the anarchy of it all, the honking horns, the slow seething frustration that grows and grows, the poor woman on a mobility scooter who was running the temporary traffic lights and went up the wrong channel and came face to face with a dumper truck, the old man (me) who looked at the wrong traffic lights and nearly got beheaded by a 200mph Deliveroo cyclist. I am bored of all the news about Rwanda and I don't understand it, but it seems that they are warming up the engines ready to fly me out there for a long holiday - away from a country where you can't even cross the road - but I am looking forward to getting out of here even if the pilot gets lost and I end up in Hull again.

this is an extended & simplified version of Before The London Wedding by Katharine Eastman

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released April 23, 2024

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