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slanderhour

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  • Semi - The Shits

    Quietly he read, restraining himself, the first column and, yielding,  but resisting, began the second. Midway, his last resistance yielding,  he allowed his bowels to ease themselves quietly as he read, reading  still patiently that slight constipation of yesterday quite gone. Hope  it’s not too big bring on piles again. No, just right. So. Ah! Costive.  One tabloid of cascara sagrada. Life might be so. It did not move or  touch him, but it was something quick and neat. Print anything now. Silly  season. He read on, seated calm above his own rising smell.

    26 min
  • Semi - Lone

    Lone sounds the name and interesting like the game

    Lone gives you fame with no one to blame
    It's like that but what can you say
    That lone brings you shame of which you can't tame
    Lone is not to blame but blame is to blame
    Lone gives you facts to make your claim
    Lone is the reminder, something to make you ponder
    Lone is the victim but never the cause
    Lone is today when none obeys
    Lone is far and near
    Lone is day and night
    Lone is not day, lone is not night
    But lone is a Rose
    Lone is the lady, she is prettier
    when she smiles
    Lone is me, lone is you
    Lone is his, lone is hers
    Lone is all of us
    It is what you made me when you left

    27 min
  • Semi - Car

    Well, today I just feel so confused

    So battered + psychically bruised

    All my friends talk of Collusion, ha,

    Conspiracies just add to the Confusion

    Like a pig pulls a cartload of sausages

    Guess I'm drawing my own conclusion


    I need a car that can get me around

    Far from the city-dwellers AM sound

    Commuters + computers,

    Yeah, I'm just on more Polluter

    But the Travel-bug has got me

    And the buggers all have Taught me...


    That there ain't no gettin' round gettin' round

    Yeah, there ain't no gettin' round gettin' round


    "Phone for you"

    Mother, can't you see I'm in the bath

    They say that we're at war again + disappearing fast

    But I need to get to London + I need to get there fast

    But my car is a polluter + it's messing up my future...


    Ain't there ain't go gettin' round gettin' round.

    Yeah, there ain't no gettin' round gettin' round.

    34 min
  • Semi - Box

    Little boxes on the hill side, little boxes made of ticky-tacky.

    Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.
    There’s a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one,
    And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.

    And the people in the houses all go to the university

    Where they all get put in boxes, little boxes, all the same.
    And there’s doctors and there’s lawyers, and there’s business executives
    And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same.

    And they all play on the golf course and drink their martini dry

    And they all have pretty children and the children go to school
    And the children go to summer camp and then to the university
    Where they all get put in boxes and they all come out the same.

    And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family

    And they all get put in boxes, little boxes all the same.
    There’s a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one
    And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same

    29 min
  • Semi - Year

    It was six years after the fact

    that I became I

    perhaps again, perhaps for the first time.


    There was the suggestion

    that I should mark each passage

    with a commemoration

    to what had been lost,

    or survived,

    words like redemption

    but that was never I,

    for I have nothing to apologise for

    and I’ll take my time.


    Simply put,

    the days followed the days

    and the weeks followed the weeks

    and the months the months

    and the years the years

    until I became I

    until I became I.

    36 min
  • Semi - The Prize

    Who is the man doing everything he can

    The winner the winner
    At the finish line first one every time
    The winner the winner

    He spends his life in a box
    Of ideas he can use
    But every night you can find him alone
    A loser

    Now he's won himself but he's getting nowhere else
    The winner the winner
    And he needs a friend cause it's getting near the end
    The winner the winner

    He sits at home with the toys
    That he has to amuse
    Just hear his moans he's so sad who he is
    A loser

    The winner is a sinner
    Has a minnow for his dinner
    The winner is a sinner
    Has a minnow for his dinner

    Who is this man doing everything he can
    The winner
    It happens every time
    When he wins he knows he's lying
    The winner the winner
    A winner

    28 min
  • Semi - Plot

    When Naboth's vineyard look'd so fine,

    The king cried out, 'Would this were mine!'
    And yet no reason could prevail
    To bring the owner to a sale.
    Jezebel saw, with haughty pride,
    How Ahab grieved to be denied;
    And thus accosted him with scorn:
    'Shall Naboth make a monarch mourn?
    A king, and weep! The ground's your own;
    I'll vest the garden in the crown.'
    With that she hatch'd a plot, and made
    Poor Naboth answer with his head;
    And when his harmless blood was spilt,
    The ground became his forfeit guilt.

    27 min
  • Semi - Teeth

    Nentis Nan, he’s my man,

    I go do im each chanz I gan.

    He sicks me down an creans my teed

    Wid mabel syrub, tick an’ sweed,

    An ten he filks my cavakies

    Wid choclut cangy — I tink he’s

    The graygest nentis in the lan.

    Le’s hear free jeers for Nentis Nan.


    Pip-pip-ooray!

    Pip-pip-ooray!

    Pip-pip-ooray!

    Le’s go to Nentis Nan dooday!

    29 min
  • Semi - Pans

    From the forests and highlands

    We come, we come;

    From the river-girt islands,

    Where loud waves are dumb

    Listening to my sweet pipings.

    The wind in the reeds and the rushes,

    The bees on the bells of thyme,

    The birds on the myrtle bushes,

    The cicale above in the lime,

    And the lizards below in the grass,

    Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was,

    Listening to my sweet pipings.

    Liquid Peneus was flowing,

    And all dark Tempe lay

    In Pelion's shadow, outgrowing

    The light of the dying day,

    Speeded by my sweet pipings.

    The Sileni, and Sylvans, and Fauns,

    And the Nymphs of the woods and the waves,

    To the edge of the moist river-lawns,

    And the brink of the dewy caves,

    And all that did then attend and follow,

    Were silent with love, as you now, Apollo,

    With envy of my sweet pipings.

    I sang of the dancing stars,

    I sang of the daedal Earth,

    And of Heaven, and the giant wars,

    And Love, and Death, and Birth—

    And then I chang'd my pipings,

    Singing how down the vale of Maenalus

    I pursu'd a maiden and clasp'd a reed.

    Gods and men, we are all deluded thus!

    It breaks in our bosom and then we bleed.

    All wept, as I think both ye now would,

    If envy or age had not frozen your blood,

    At the sorrow of my sweet pipings.

    23 min
  • Semi - Body Language

    I was a boy walking tough, king of the street

    Believed in making my own destiny, yeah
    Victim of love, I made a promise that I'd never be
    Another one of love's fatalities

    Rule number one was running wild and always running free
    Didn't need no luck, my guardian angel looking over me
    You passed me by, I got the vibe, left me in disbelief
    Arrow to my heart, at hurricane velocity
    You pierced my emotional armour
    Bolt of lightning couldn't hit me harder

    You got my body shaking, sends a shiver to my soul

    I didn't get no warning, you got me shaking to the bone
    I got my secret weapon, I'm gonna get you alone, yeah yeah
    So let your body loose control

    Everybody say I aim too high out of my league
    I've gotta step into reality, yeah
    Different sides, different styles, certain tragedy
    I got you in my sights so please believe it's harmony
    You pierced my emotional armour
    Bolt of lightning couldn't hit me harder

    You got my body shaking, sends a shiver to my soul

    I didn't get no warning, you got me shaking to the bone
    I got my secret weapon, I'm gonna get you alone, yeah yeah
    So let your body loose control

    29 min

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A weekly pre-sleep, post-thought audio play investigating the nature of latent boredom and the strip-mining of emotional bereavement.