Instructions for making a quick video
This will turn on the voice recorder ttesting testing
1...press the camera key on the right side of the phone for a few seconds
Okay I have done that
TIP! exclamation mark must be important To switch to the camera mode or video mode slide up/down the camera or toggle video icon on the right centre viewfinder.
I do not have any idea about what that means
I cannot see anything resembling whatever it says to toggle
but I can see figures starting to move in the bedroom
2 Holding the phone horizontally point the lens towards the subject of the video
I now have a problem because the screen is bright and is illuminating my face
they only have to look outrt of the window and they will see me in this tree
but it’s handy because I can read the instructions
3 Press the camera key on the phone once to start recording or touch the red dot.
and I cannot find either of them unless -
no that has started to redial the last number I phoned
how do I stop that?
no need to worry I can hear her phone through the window
and from what I can see she isn’t going to answer it any time soon
I hope the court take into account how devious she was
and the lengths I had to go to to prove it
and that solicitor who said he could get a private detective
well I am showing him showing them all
no get up and go she said whatever that means
a man of your age the solicitor said my age no age at all
but it did take a while to climb up here
and I wrecked my trousers though it will be worth it in the end
I am glad I decided to record this voice record
as collaborative contemporaneous evidence
should put me ahead in the court
ok start again checking
yes it is recording now
I will just get along this branch a little to get their faces
and that will be the evidence I need
what is that cracking sound?
is this recording that cracking sound
I can hear a cracking sound
City of glass
through an empty glass
the sun split into a million colours
like an oil slick
and that is how it is
that is where I live
populating my own love story
in a city of colour
a city of faces
a city of voices
a city full of love stories
a city of wildness
a city of streets going nowhere
a city keeping the wilderness at bay
keeping it away
a city that wears you out
makes you mad and sane
makes it possible to grab the next line
to see the words transparent meanings
pregnant with possibilities
or know where it is coming from
somehow the future is getting shorter
the time available less
the days that once seemed endless
pass almost almost almost
unremembered
although I come here alone
I am surrounded by voices
in a city full of love stories
and I tell you I’m here
you have no memory of it
no memory of it
you have never been through the woods
or walked the secret paths
to my midnight ballroom
some things you may know of
some things I have written of
some things are on photographs
may have left an impression
but you will not know the
rise and fall of paths
the ladder rocks
the smells of the wet ferns
unless I tell you
unless I tell you
you may think you know
how I sit and watch the Dee
the Welsh Hills
those you know from other places
but on that bench on that hilltop
it is mine and only mine
and as the sunlight towers
reach down to the fast flowing river
it reflects upon the shortening future
and the lengthening past
this I know and only this
for most people here is a now
made from words images and hope
they go like Prufock’s children
to inherit coffee spoons
while my life has been a gift
I spend walking between towers
in cities of glass
a million fly eye reflections
these are the places
I made for myself
and populate with my dreams
here in this city of class
the city of glass
Jim Bennett
Jim Bennett is alive and well living on the Wirral in the UK.
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