up, up & up

Up up and up

You may want to

Evict letter council

Funds withdrawn

Lobo me

Lobotomise me

Please refer to letter

Dated council marked

Payment

Changed

I’m afraid we changed

Dated in date

Not in date

I’m afraid you have

Unfortunately

Denied

Sanctioned

Cancelled

Deleted

I’m sorry I don’t understand

I’m sorry I don’t understand

I’m sorry I don’t understand

You’re making as much sense

As the fucking fairy at the bottom of the

Pile the letter

was not sent

I’m an anonymous

Num-ber

I’m an anonymous

Num-ber

Anon

Na

Mous

Numb

Ber

Sorry I don’t recog

Nise

These algorithms

You don’t exist

Just a living

Breathing

Lung breathe

Puff

Out

Out

Out out out out

Otters little otters

When I went to the river I heard there were otters

But no letters

Those letters don't make sense

Sorry tried to look in that plastic file in the box

Replaced the toys the imaginary toys in the box

I read there was a brownie behind the curtain

Obsessed throughout my childhood

Same figure as the tax man

Sorry you don’t exist

I’ll throw away the letter

We exist here

Because we exist here

My pink skin

My brown skin

My rough skin

Chapped

Breath

Cigarette

Lungs here

You don’t exist

Sorry who the fuck are you?

Sorry who the fuck are you?

Sorry who the fuck are you?

Taxman

Letterman

Laxman

Tatterman

Go back from whence you came

From behind the curtain you don’t exist

Lungs breath ah

That’s all there is.

This is where we stand up

This is where we stand up

Stand up and say

No

We didn’t ask to go there

Now you tell us

And we say

No

We didn’t ask to go there

We wanted to move forward

We wanted to move back

We wanted to go through

We wanted to stay

But in our own time

Now

We wanted to stay here

Here we have found something

Don’t make us move forward

Before we’re asked to

Because then we’ll disappear

And where do you think you will be

And where do you think you will be?

If we are not here

If we are not here

If we are not here

You are neither here nor there

Without us

You are neither here nor there

Neither here nor there

This is where we stand up

Sit down

Remain

Stay seated

Move forward

Stay

And say

We want to stay here

And here we’ll stay

And here we’ll stay

And you’ll never be rid of us

Accept

This gift

This token

This being

This mess

This us

Because

To pause

To wait

Is how you understand

It’s how we understand

Pause

Pause

Beat

Beat

No more than life

Wake up.

Meet the children.

Now.

I am excited about what

we can mobilise

in as now if we can just

stand there

and let people know

that we are here

in this place

And the see saw

will tip

if we move our feet.