Scratched Fluff

Jean’s moustache is longer than we thought
Jean’s moustache is. Slick, shuffling out to sea
Jean’s moustache covers his mouth
Jean’s moustache muffles his speech
It screeches, then steps out of character
Jean’s moustache is a system of numbers
Jean’s moustache is a little green heart beat
Pulse pulse pulse. Roof. Blown. Off.
Jean’s moustache is because of the wind
Jean’s moustache grows in the wind
Jean’s moustache is scruffed in places
Jean’s moustache is encrypted
The air around it is encrypted
Air type 1 sounds like scccccrrrrrrrr
Air type 2 sounds like ffffffffffffffff
Jean’s moustache is vocoded
Cocccooccooooned in fuzz
Jean’s moustache plaits into others
Jean’s moustache is a Halloween joke
Jean’s moustache is a theatre on the air
Jean’s moustache hides a shot gun-nenenenenenene
Hu huuu
Jean is Jocelyn Bell hunting scruff
chasing martians, mer-cu-ry
looking out for numbers
numbers may be scratched and fluffed
The back of Jean’s head is scruffy
Where the message backfired
Jocelyn’s moustache is cherry ripe
Jean’s cherry is a secret agent
Jean’s moustache is ropey
Jean hasn’t got a moustache
numbers 3.5
not much cognac
letters 3.5
not much cognac
agents 3.5
The violins of autumn are
Clicking
have a crackling affect
on words through a wire
Rumble over disaster voices/ still wailing like little and green and pulsing
Don’t go over the top. Don’t talk into the wind
Fish
For harmonies
Stay thermal
Sccrrr – ared of loud noises
Scccrrr – ary cage noises
Scccrrr – artificial speech of bat
Jean has been talking to the LGMs.
putting sounds in boxes. Regurgitating pangs-peeps-blasts. Today they asked for an explosion, mid-air. Kata-Kata city. He should shout a letter of the alphabet as each fragment combusts. Frizzles back to earth. Ca-boom. Ca-bang. Catastrophe commentary scratched into ffireside cha-atter. The LGMs have throat infections – they croup
Hiccough
Husp kah-kah Jean follows the rattles like a recipe. Find a bowl. Put on a wetsuit. Dive in. Squeak the wet rubber to the tune of those violins.
tweak tweak tweak tweak tweak
The trouble with this
The rumble with th
The terrible is
you have no idea how many are listening. Who is rolling through the catches
from tic to tock to air-talk to gibber-pitch. The only real real real wave is Orson Wells burning it down. Real panic, human panic, New Jersey panic. Panic transmitting panic hearing panic homing panic hosting panic hatching panic.
Martians roar
Earthquakes purr
Elaborations of scruff. The oracle scruffed a sermon is scruff. The lines between L,G,M are scruffed: Little scritch, Green scratch, scruffy men in wetsuits tracking a tracking device. Hu huuu Scruff is part scratch part fluff with the remains of a flutter. Clash scritch muzzle caboom. A scruffed message is hard to hear > a massaged scruff is unhearable. How you manage a scruff is a question of counting pulses.

tracker
take off
tatted
totally
twinkle
traffic
take me
take me
talkie
twinkle
twinkle
tradgedy
trouble spot
tough luck
terrible
tattle
teetol
take her
take her
tracker
huu huu
tracker
take off
tatted
totally
twinkle
twinkle
traffic
take me
take me
talkie
hu huuu
twinkle
tradgedy
trouble spot
tough luck
terrible
tattle
teetol
take her
take her
tracker
tracker
huuu huu
huuu huu
huu huuu

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