| Maximo Park Diary Entries |
| These are diary entries by Maximo Park members from the Official Maximo Park Website. |
Over Christmas |
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| 09 Jan, 2007 |
Christmas is finished, but over that time I was waiting for someone in
a cafe after walking through the dark, rainy streets of Newcastle. It
was the calmest festive period for a long time, with the occasional
glint of the past appearing now and then.
This is what I'd forgotten I'd written:
A slice of lemon skylight
The men stack the day's fruit in the back of the van, lit by the bare bulb that dangles over the rickety stall.
Paving glitters; tangerine.
The
cafes are under-staffed and over-worked, their floors strewn with
plastic forks, used pill packets, and, bizarrely, at least one white
inner sole.
Plastic paintings come away from their wall mounts, peeling and exposing the fluffy paper that winks at you.
Reproductions everywhere.
Half-hearted apologies from the cleaners.
Pretend brush strokes and unreal, archaic, quill-driven handwriting superimposed over Roman script and modern patterns.
Christmas is collapsing under its own weight.
Paul
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