a personal history, Billy Childish

[tuesdaylectures.livejournal.com]

i hunt death
like a black spyder
like it is a black spyder i mean
a black spyder that i hope
and pray i will not find

what im trying to say is
that i hunt truth
like it is a black spyder
seen
scurrying between a stack
of old bricks
in my fathers back yard

Comments

[tuesdaylectures.livejournal.com]

Haha! No, it's all a part of his style really, he's dyslexic and writes and publishes without any changes being made to his spelling. Normally something like that would probably bug me (which is very unfair, but I'm a bit ocd about spelling and punctuation and get a bit frustrated with incessant mistakes) but with him, I don't know, I've been reading a few interviews with him and he talks over and over about being truthful and wanting to put out an honest and unedited version of himself, and I can appreciate that.

[pythia.livejournal.com]

See, if there's a reason for it, it doesn't bother me so much. Haha.