John Lennon's Eye
Violent night on Merseyside: a rocket
fired through a Croxteth bedroom window,
a phone box and a car gutted in Woolton.
Liverpool, Euro Capital of Culture, St. George's
wrapped like a birthday gift, John Lennon
is Mona Lisa with a red guitar, a vast poster
printed with 30 gallons of ink, but tonight
someone cut out John Lennon's eye.
His glasses bloody on Yoko's "Season of Glass";
the bark of Chapman's Charter Arms .38;
dark night on Menlove Avenue, Ocean Child hit
in a drive-by, a drunken off-duty copper. Oh Julia!
Bloody St. George's Hall, the bloody assizes.
Release the white doves, play elegies.
Strawberry fields glisten with bloody leaves.
Ghost guitars echo in Gambier Terrace,
in Mathew Street, crushed carnations
and musical notes trampled underfoot.
Someone cut out John Lennon's eye.
Christopher T. George
Christopher T. George
Editor, Ripperologist
Editor, Loch Raven Review
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more thought provoking words from ChrisG.
that's very good Chris.
Sad farewell to festival dome
Nov 29 2006
More than 20 years after watching the dome being built at Liverpool’s Garden Festival site, City Editor Larry Neild was there again yesterday – to watch it being pulled down
by Larry Neild, Liverpool Daily Post
A MACHINE dubbed Edward Scissorhands was yesterday recruited to snip its way through the large dome at Otterspool, once the centrepiece of Liverpool’s International Garden Festival site.
The £350,000 snipper resembles an extra from War of the Worlds and is so powerful it can cut through steel girders and concrete with the ease of a pair of nailclippers.
Over the next few days, “Edward” and a team of human helpers will reduce the dome to large chunks of steel, destined to be sold as scrap to China.
The dome was, in 1984, the exhibition hall at Britain’s first International Garden Festival, opened by the Queen in the summer of that year.
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I went past today...too dull for pics, except a couple of 'memory joggers'. Looked to be about 99% intact and no sign of activity. I did notice signs saying the road may be subject to delays between 11.30 and 1.30. Also seen some film crew caterers (Tele-caterers) and a policeman on the car-park facing the Britannia.
I woke to a scraping metallic sound this morning and guessed they had started the demolition. But when I got there with my camera there wasn't much action.
Plenty of people with cameras though. (That wasn't you I spoke to by the roundabout was it Cissie?)
I think the film crew thing was something completely different. They had a car on the back of trailer and were filming it driving up and down Riverside Drive.
Mike
The rear was being smashed in this morning, but my camera couldn't focus with the sun directly behind the hall.
Last edited by marky; 12-02-2006 at 12:16 AM.
The rear is completely open today.
Hard to tell just how much has gone.
Last edited by PhilipG; 12-02-2006 at 03:30 PM.
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