Lawrence Upton

interrogation

co-operating agents.

kind, have like, implying fact, fool say. oncoming giddy, his face it.
you'll sick round her.

serious in every path pulled under; startled heavy began; first name; your
body, a full unseen being, silent, all sense.

but I don't like to make, his time, for diameter smoothly; arms under
theory, a getaway, sitting together, the tip too late; nerves would come
would run for heroes.

some moments unbeatable a mistake, if you can, exclusively, over the phone,
to go where?

money, government, another, enough; our turn will follow air.

the as gassy as quiet. looked rattled, she him; and he was off. smash the
dirty but smile.

wishing unstuck heart, any foul-up slipping, showing the fur.

young rendezvous would launch barely the warmth of her into sight.

to work as important as flat reading as crazy as a bathroom, unquote.

even, irrational; even irrational, helpless to exchange, anything possible.

flower in a mistaken dark, flickering after growing, and then glowing.

window? head worst. that's it, turned new matter with vowels in person.

a lip to have slip a latent paper; pity killings, when late.

up and down all sorts of was pulled over to the listening with his disposal.

jealous in an important commend, mob the terrain, over his calm; the wrong
pin, too hard, he was leaning over.

swept edge of the dark, I'm air; the wound it will feels numbs.

than time: he disentangle, than the time, learned, and: do it; chairs
dancing, over, over, today; the sketchily this; you, now it? knew damned her
to contest surprise and harm.

something ends. only it? inevitably.

long stare no tomorrow, casually; allowing.

small sign stuck up shaking structures in tangent; chances were unblinking
word.

we never enjoys where more simply house then several properly. like an
intelligence. good soldiers in the breathing come. and he then was what went
in the breathline.

normally used subject, fair and mild, a long pause, the light and lions,
called off, fair and mild, sudden.

everyone no one; what was to be; I will tell you, passively.

stone window entirely telling.

he being, the city, that, house himself where chums had life, every
memorised had life, in of.

a war, a long war, that is a long war; he would have liked your method, if
he is still alive, from the inner room, and went and left them, our
mistakes, our... politics.

stains feeling such a bigger thought, a pest, but the; dog into thought, to
love each, to be happy, into the living room.

he was, when was, but spiel, with past counter start time to same. hope.

speak, with wheels negotiable; thing society; your whole arm; making it
bluff or speak.

thunder; and; all her life, all never.

going on, he whispered, the next shift, that night, that kind of time,
loosening.

get the picture, among, his tongue, sweetheart, and pull the; the blue,
needed, off her; you know, filled.

face made spotless roared in care voice at him unhealthy smile.

increasingly, all sorts of, in a haze.

fear self-justifying business, interrupting it.

he met both legs in English, a drunk man, or you get confused.

singing how awful, a hand out anyway, a sigh of, unscrewed the....

moments him unbeatable mistake, whispered number, cack (handed) led, groaned
simple enough.

delicate good, you elsewhere.

and it, war, murder, waiting armed, later.

are can: to make a chance we are we can; and, man, if you have. produced, I
must work dead in another medicine; sink in; none here, we are the strong
ones.

light-headed are you familiar? are you familiar with that? of course you
are. fronting for documentation. there's a hoodlum. investing in
documentation. open the door..

any turn, any any turn, this here, that here, turn backward; let's get it
over with; questioningly running the little believe it.

might dismissed not side were city votes, was, it was, an individual
undoubtedly, works in a fit condition, the more to talk.

to come out, the bedroom, on my bed, like burnt rubber, out of her eyes, her
head scorched, ruined into tears; and you'll feel better.

calmly a large one, the story of, himself.

to say half, colour it known, shaking, hoarsely "What is your name?".

really too bad the way I'll tackle the street, the ignominious safety,
subsistence country.

dressing touches, attempt to laugh again, some her face don't edge.

so much hope. heal. night. an impossible. sing, melted of kindliness like
pity.

the north was cloud, the hours in the sea.

belligerent instantly complete and knew the room in the right place, gasped
as well as the weak the other man spluttered.

about abstractions among homo sapiens, relieved gloominess quickly; did that
leave society? consider the end.

offered the shock of mind just chamber; the his, saw and were; I haven't
enough; suddenly belonging; what flavour? chocolate; how would you like to
be a hero?.

and in good you recognised, and you recognised, head him congratulations of
couldn't altogether, like the ever open pedagogue, glasses, the usual
offices, your other name.

warm though sniffed rubbish anxiously.

big read highway tolled! like a steam thought; continued calmly: at large
one story of themselves.

in a was had, killings, the make, no the make was precedent of truthful
believed.

some distraction, no link; danced, the explanation inviolate, to heard off
world.

he grinned ragged nature, dear satisfaction.

a break alibi (means alias) to be built up something hot; Europa.

inconsiderable morning. time treasured with the open rooms.

deliveries of force, of course, underestimated.

so he pressed, it does, and you, contorted, tomorrow.

a thought under control already there; and me for someone, answers for me,
big smilingly, good now.

think? now believe the money... I is one, I a a talk; just anything into, be
flood again; talk away.

sight rusty sleep in hot dry flying, bedridden was opened in his
unconscious.

contentedly to the whirr of cracked.

she almost feeling, was time, was home; you can't do that; her mouth
explained: the box did taste best, this instant, the box almost feeling, her
little voice learned a box of time; any listening eye started.

my grip stopped quietly. my his heart beat. beat! eyes said the slow long
jolting.

forgetting silence.

dazzling waveless too whole; voice little, choking mind at last; departure
becomes the journey a forsaken curve, pointing.

here, afford me questioning; the shock of you yesterday was gas, isn't it?
say I would.

for another, disagreeable hell today, pressure wrong around wonder;
briefcase nonsense; all fall in; the rubber air.

do a little time, keep the time all.

tell the rainbow: done; say: gone, coughing and grasping his eye; dead wood
spoke the form.

up forced will us another night, she filled an overhead.

contempt... my voice... my presence... breath.

funny around you toward light, the right thing, the credit.

money begins my mind begins to cry, sick nerves and sanity, was not a man,
when nothing else got time and thickly; I condition any normal voice, our
money is, describing again goes.

went good under things even now sterile if we suffocate; can't talk.

and telephone. happened? the house. horrified.

and and his black rattle time at bridge.

mystery well-made is attractive; thought, thought fact, fact; you; I;
afraid, no, me mad; you know a word; you did.

possibilities, her face thinking goodbye, she wailed, it's gone, she said
rapidly, and you constricted her, undressed and afraid altogether, and
yelled, it really happened, but to whom?.

flag, back to nearly forgotten; the smoke remembered, hope machinery.

understanding capital, violence hope, hidden without an expression,
imprisoned the city to share.

drunk country, land talking, long table still the dark; destiny badly may
blood the quickly unbeaten.

the horse continually to hand, the somewhere cool, the tiles and cloud, any
chosen surrounding, paying the wise away.

a little English suspected for platitudes about everything, the incidents
hopefully on what occasion, the malice neglect; suspend the machismo.

sweet heard commercial of which engine he could have with Man; worry any
good burning, soon exactly, caution a success.

bank a thought, was for his woman; was had with it, emotions; was frantic to
him, was blindingly, whispered.

television sweat pulled the trigger; the money gave a small jerk of moved
nerves to fetch him.

head seemed to the middle some slivers of the hand bleeding, lightly carbon,
this way!.

place trembled; pacified, broke; a lot of... friends... a lot of the
world... it fades.

think; ing but thinking enough? that innocence! I have ever known; to slow
the; and what was in her mind; to come, stainless, I other, to panic, you're
wearing a gun, aren't you? the little something to anything in but of
critical bitchy. what's that got to do with it?.

second fear in ill-advised, to lie in, to grow up; minor friendship
plausible; intently the supplied to dangerous; a third engine waved to him.

first words the first time it encountered from the eyes, envy-destructive
books, endless might and catch.

hard to remember, think of books; that's impossible because uneasily
different; though jolly; the other.

better, skip it, rough, life.

behind before women believed, a lot of ruins, lacking his sight concealed,
plenty of, intelligence, of course, in the trees.

nothing. why? what real self? were days to be important... heard it... why
you? the whole story, full of wholes.

set, afraid, not; thinking, me, chance; along silence; we all make our own I
think; care; close something; those; who look to....

really waiting and almost impossible? impossible reasons. for me; a good
remarked; to understand people, languages, languages I still don't
understand, the truth here now in the happy.

what it takes was a whole man; this way there was all that's wrong with you;
you're not running a few civilised dialogues; I wonder if you'd pick me up.

very heavily, breathing altogether, our tactics; drugged closely in the same
tone, had employed, exclaimed, not blood.

polished bird clandestinely crammed into the air; a little shrine, exterior,
houses thought, to buy with young men.

I am very still yourself than built; you figure duty, your figure you, his
discredit, unscrupulous girls, anyway, surely, it's so sad; and wrong in
plain.

thin his eyes.

did she could. voice enough, voice touch, candles her all. her would, and
her would.

always you screamed. imagine her cut. you boasted, very you, reminding you
cheerfully.

cold much at think I you. breathed doorway, most a pink. whole thing.

heels on the floor until quietly, quietly, wearily, unless she felt like it,
and shouted: worms, worms; was full of everyone beginning to eat out of her
empty hands. you know that. parts were them too. most. of her mouth.

earth the toy on head, the necessary showing, the water come?.

whole thing, be how it; had other funny; when other funny, another. she
comes, sure as anything.

boxes rapidly enough parade through the ceiling. in the middle of.

wavers, sulky waivers; she brought a vacuum, seized the... it died with
quiet. you can't do that.

quickly, small, through the house and street. splashing quick pretending,
goodness dripping on the pin goodness, when she understood the situation.
all? of them firmly refresh.

always gave the vacuum running, she chanted. with yell of suck, perfume from
another, went wiggling.

was a do, awful in voice; I don't know what's got into me, with a touch of
administration.

big read highway like a steam thought.

words want sleeping about angry and think.

funniest the lights, reconstructed, lying amazed had pushed in barbs, figure
precisely increased.

a small face, never interested, was looked for his battered shoulders.

on hard, answer for the moment: sunshine, yourself, room.

big read highway like a steam thought.

by name, tell other usually, his his hand, breath large, the eyes destroyed.

never the and on nothing, daylight in the slack lips, craving.

eyes plausible and alive, say nothing, I am away.

was inside you and ran away; air house would, stoof still the air, like the
papers, the heat.

sun-glinting blazing ground, lightly killing a shout, the shout would be
alive.

would to beast. beast had them. had them and weight altogether. dog a job of
him.

there a fire, in for it, that she again, she receiver, she didn't wanted,
the process we did everything; the voice toil tell the sort of person, I'm
not sure.

to you wild horses try; cheap night.

standing in fixed enquiries, their question once was itself boundary heads
crowd. customarily snowy.

better, all, you; before, no wanted, himself; never and me? me?.

thought key? house to have a key? that specified to she in complain, she
house, one go and nowhere; made an attempt at fighting.

marching seemed sanity, the monstrous how of enigma when dark gave a
darkness.

bodies lovingly tears, was over, quickly could love, really, sometimes
dream, fears, instead of; the, the, the, a name; you know a hot worship; the
release.

talked much had catching talking with the dead man, stroked it a moment,
shivering; been it?.

passion strains my mirth; still head a knot, the knot my blood.

your writing she sensed into lines made ironic, so say your total could
heard.

emptiness mutilated: talked the others, but long; she'd noise, she'd dropped
on morning; up there, dope.

funniest from fell shot lose him was been turned, draped, and started only
he well but day; he was he of he'd knows they'd whatever; too idle, or
unfriendly instead in round.

down with his legs, appropriate, controlled him learning, the sky munched in
exhaust, of hands like this.

missing logo pathetic strength; the come from pond; crossed the fumbling
lift open.

know we fortuned mind from the small fat hulk run, vanquish; belonging
forced and did mix.

white, flesh, not unequal, clear red again, move! disappeared.

said said got you; said you said got and you.

that home touching him away. talking fingers understand a dog. a windows.
near rocks. a drink. was almost watch.

no state never hit irony, for years, too well, since with looking done big
sense, hadn't they couldn't.

into it the steps the path the dusk, those sometime air remembered, only in
mind, concentrated unbearable, the garden dark over formidable under place.

to see by rising, laughter kissing something responded, pulling behind them,
been them, began her languid phantom, cruel interruption stroked the he and
she sigh to the talking on to her.

water standing in the warm gloom something; his tongue, the more for, for a
moment.

self knotted worst, soon; and them parts, I scream sight, the sky a torrents
hills turn two grandeur; and that this wealthy, still way was seeing use.

behind like, and call, written petty, litter.

she went bomb serious hear nothing rattle, the paper folded, handful of not
even not reading apprehensive.

like the street, the fiddled meaning for boredom, taking water he wanted.

the lift to nothing to the presumably expended energy; the trains,
absolutely hedges.

but the air is used for sure; all passes, a bowl of courtesy.

perhaps down was dry shamed with somewhere under; trees; frozen road.

wiled practical eyes of guidance; tales before heaven; tomorrow, journey,
poised; her tears.

her lips, my duties, could not relax, subservient, lonely, momentarily a
skull.

was inside your goodbye he ordered, seem to, what I, plenty and you, large
he, dreadful and rectangular.

dancing in the seen hands into stumbled the on the floor, with it, in a
half-empty world, wind-engines reading brains, a hand from his lips,
convulsed body, fight embarrassment.

blue; little stream. lived courtyard; running courtyard, all and besides,
were light fury, last usually; old those, my spring; tied; hung; responses.

dead, hunch, pieces! old though, the blow! the fray, they flew at one,
touches on lies.

covered all his out; we we squeeze we spread water; heart grieved; leaving,
whispered lightness.

hastily, stop fever (in up) device (brother) out for endurance (and had
her); to custom; that badly dead.

the sun rapidly lured burst into restrained will not be wasted, this man
amiss.

better newspaper, better much stopped, talked, knew enough, pressed as big
as matter to full breath.

turned male, fox, than I, changing the future always; every tell? dancers
rhythm end long dance; a lover.

large painted snigger; the look roofline; forgotten as common as
disappeared; seated wry, some profit, perhaps much may somewhere.

listening house, musical, comical, sing air; imagine smiles.

they jaw, chill to (hand) fury; me so, the quick I; arm her; leave her be.

suddenly fearful in the silence, her hands closer, arms closer, over her and
moved it, as he lingered on, tearing the flesh, was beginning to him again
lingering him even almost went to her throat and she, harshness held back,
pushed back.

pretty. pretty real. pretty real name. pretty real lied name. who'd forget
that everything sincere. my hand? to keep a long time. remember herself..

read boozing she would and feared for the fire at her eyes began to eat.

long leg, stomachs too dance, exertion spreads upward, leaving the seen
night.

a bowl of flame; a bowl of loveliness. a handful of her hair. natural to
make in her enchanted wood, beckoning, I could look into making it flare,
indentation barely, taken out different, her fingers.

silent, one hears, some families various now; yawn.

into the body. the into body. one of in carrion. them. parched her; her the
eyes, beyond half smiled, put his mouth on hers, drowning, joined while her
his close deeply did not care, down, but this hunger, she left.

drew into a transport of each other; longing to move; intensity the world
loose with hers and sleep came.

more? more you original? finally the accident to him give you, I thought.
shaking his head to let them off easily. exchanged the accident. wondered
what traded identities. let me introduce the shock.

I, red dark phallus, my fingers, I watched in a child's mouth her name; old
habit old son seemed indented for sure.

and the English opposite the floor, my coin, in round, tall men, stung here.

aching journeys, bunched in stale air; she did not sleep.

receive him. receive; him. receive each; other's each movement fire worked
his lore and murmured against him, each removal she loved.

fill me in. behind that. someone. to meet. yourself or anything like. her
nervousness. this can be her nervousness. turned sound.

me, the almost that it imagined, a willing, the boys yellowing, pure as
scold, delicate a smile, rusty, to round each time, all round, though none
else.

great food, fields, grey stone, mirrored thing; it flies the brain and frees
muscle, singing.

room burst of giggles rising with gifts burned in hot sea her shrinking
world.

hand took dry union, her face glitter is not curiously, betraying might,
under the rough sun and wind.

a cup of coffee a kiss on the news. any familiar going on surprising.

sleepy looks; natural as grisly, ears mutilated; eyes change; what many call
soul, imaginary, thinks.

spring brown body knew weeping to say, in the wearying pain, he could not
speak; speak would, world hammering.

gates; jolted words; to doubt sleep-paced contented in her lap, the sea
against the shore, all night I heard it, a bird in the grass.

the offer the breeze a heat; stood with the quick; weight, sir? shout richly
behind the look.

a strand of red was obvious fact. oddly. at the glass. again. a frightening
word.

the fair itself came and thoughts in hell by night-flying; none later days
would name; in his fog.

his hands presented light, snow aloud by the fire.

slowly brilliant; boredom knowledge; words begrudged in the quiet, when it
comes.

cottages mumbled. the doors heard. husky privacy. a light out. money
laboriously judges exceptions. and richer. I've got a list as long as your
arm.

once figure forever; if you, if him; type thought infatuated a relief.

(throat) died in the little room with the tears during the night in a field.

in the garden, tossing her, her ears, in lassitude; the words were simple
she extended and rose.

phone prowl, schedule of his mind for him, to put the home in another; the
bank interest was built after! the war.

hearing eyes on the edge of to switch, straight your name too late.

a long criminal, that is true; a button acquired some; dispense carefully;
can damage us as legal.

attitudes at the ceiling even kissing herself up to her chin.

a coarse turned little body putting his mind to room, silently.

bloody well-being in all she did not... strange. seemed.

too hungry, the stomach spending, taking; looking, softly, in the business
and travelling fast.

an organism. his organism. his finger. his hand. and his blood. and set it
free. his body softly in breathing. in the morning the wide open song again.

all happy? getting spots, piteously.

underfoot image against tricky premises. slyly better.

push enthusiasm! simply wouldn't memory; away room, clock, car, station;
switchboard; sharply; more work reproduced. the man can think of the credit.
how old is he?.

said to talk about it, into trouble, stainless before, querulous; had
broken.

added things own other art. something. missing by getting hysterical smiles.
 

Tenby / London August 1999
Sutton revised January 2000
 
 

Interrogation is from the set of writing called "Easy Huming" which takes
its title from Wm Blake's "An Island in the Moon". Ignoring shorter pieces
in the set, it shares the set with "huming", "queuing" and "networking".

Extracts from "huming" and "queuing" have been published by Peter Ganick in
Poetpoettext and Potepoetzine respectively and the full texts of both have
been published together as "huming / queuing" by Writers Forum in London.

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