Barbican Young Poets 2019-20
Tice Cin and Gboyega Odubanjo
'two mates on a bus playing each other tunes'
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two mates on a bus playing each other tunes
(Tice plays: Oscar #worldpeace - Tate Modern + Wary + Pearls)
Both of me first and next mainly me.
A notification like an adventitious root
rejected for the transaction it recalls.
The redistribution of revenge porn as selfie.
(Gboyega plays: Moses Boyd - Rush Hour/Elegua (feat. Kevin Haynes Grupo Elegua))
everybody going gone
people packed went
outskirts and elsewhere.
sound been bagged
aerial come down
music plucked from sky
and scattered.
tower come down.
lives in matted
woven nylon zipped
uncle cousin
gone. bass in back-
packs. trunk rattle hushed.
couldn’t no centre ever
hold all that racket, no.
(Tice plays Skepta - Oynama Sikidim Sikidim)
To the re-DVD-ing of me and mine.
Mine that is no longer the us of their plans.
We stash our pockets Blockchain.
We pile-up of things, bread breading
bread falling off a conveyor belt
everyone in Lidl getting stressed, that's me.
Catch me again intermittent unexpected.
Nothing tell-tale no give away.
Yes I transform to disappear.
Benching in on myself nothing here to see if there’s so much of it.
Youtube suggests another video
(Gboyega plays Lex Amor - Plant Your Feet (P.Y.F))
woman on the 67 bus
with the stories
she’s gone.
estate scrubbed clean
of its grimy self.
loiter song gagged.
gap-toothed whistle
no more. song not ever.
pastor on the corner
mistakes empty for heaven
communion run empty
no two or more gathered
no bodies here
only ghosts
and memory holding
this nothing
and nobody place up.
About Tice Cin
Tice Cin is an interdisciplinary artist from North London. A Literary Fiction awardee for Spread the Word’s London Writers Awards, her novel Keeping the House will be published by And Other Stories in September. Also a music producer and DJ, Cin is currently putting together her debut EP. Her work has been commissioned by venues including Battersea Arts Centre and St. Paul’s Cathedral, and she now creates digital art as part of Design Yourself, a collective based at Barbican Centre, exploring what it means to be human when technology is changing everything.
Instagram: @tice.cin
About Gboyega Odubanjo
Gboyega Odubanjo was born and raised in East London. He is the author of While I Yet Live (Bad Betty Press, 2019) and Aunty Uncle Poems (The Poetry Business, June 2021). Gboyega is an editor of bath magg.
Twitter: @OdubanjoGboyega
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