Artex Monkey Royston Diarea

Nowt Left To Lose

Wheear's mi Centre of Creativity then? Is it here yet? They're well on t'way wi t'new dayglo bus station in tarn, but wheears creativity in that? There's mooer creativity happenin from people standing artside in t'rain on Kendray Street waiting for a bus that'll nivver turn up. A know all abart missing t'bus. Any ruad mebbi a'll av to gu darn Royston Park agen an drum up some suppewert. Royston is mine and it owes mi a living. Last time tried it darn theear, wi mi guitar in hand, t'only person ter turn up wor a woman wi her labrador dog. Shi lerrit shit under a bench an all. Mebbi mi music has that effect on dogs. Well yer say yer want a revelation. Then bin yer PlayStation an look art er winder. It in't darntarn Manhatten it's bloody Royston Park. T'other neet a must've et too much cheese or sumat cos a started dreaming. A stumbled art er mi dream in a cold sweat.Ad bin picking plums from a tree up in t'Co-op car park. A wok up wi all mi posters er Eddy Merckx in pieces all ovver t'carpet. Nar then wheear worra? Oh ar this Centre of Creativity... it's comin soon a know it. A place wheear wi can come together and transfer this energy into a world er hope, wheear we're working together to bring into being t'next generation - ones that aren't slaves, people that dun't av to do shit jobs and av meaningless lives that pass by wiart any purpose other than being bio-mass for a system of enslavement that reproduce t'next generation for t'same purpose. Wi wor poor, but i wor happy. These are far from free times. As someone once asked who are the free? And are they free to be free? Freedom's just another word for nowt left to lose. Well wi'v nowt left to lose but these chains. And emancipation in't abart losing is it? As Hardt says "Helping others is not even in tension with making my life better. All that is part of the same thing. To make the world better, I don't need to give up things, I need to gain things. I need to gain a more joyful life." This is t'great age of exploration and experimentation. It's all up for grabs. Just dun't get caught on CCTV will tha?

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