John Keates

Nature.<br>Arting about.<br>Music (playing (bass) and listening)<br>Books (reading and buying)<br>Flirting with pretty girls.<br>Well engerneared tools.<br>Not getting on with landlords.<br>Making small adjustments to things.<br>Going away somewhere by myself.<br>Waiting for things to steadily improve.<br>Trying to be a child again.<br>Orgasms.<br>Talking to stupid people.<br>Talking to clever people.<br>Fiddling (mostly slapping rythms on myself).<br>Daydreaming (sometimes silly,sometimes impassioned, sometimes hatefull, whatever).<br>Nature.<br>Words (use-of (grammer(parenthises))).<br>Watching others fail.<br>Watching others succeed.<br>Undermining authority.<br>Getting drunk.<br>Building things.<br>Smashing things up.<br>Climbing trees.<br>Fooooood.<br>Little rythms.<br>Asking awkward questions.<br>The needless expendature of energy.<br>Writing lists.<br>Wanting to be the Thing King.<br>Admiring the organised chaos that is my room.<br>Swimming like a dolphin.<br>Having dreams in which I levitate.<br>Staring at skinheads until they look away.<br>Ripping up old schoolwork.<br>Drawing<br>Imagining beating up bad people but not actually doing it.<br>Thinking of myself as an animal that is the product of four billion years of evolution (which I am).<br>Imagining little places off somewhere where there are no people and where nothing seems to matter (like crevices in rocks in deserts).<br>Nature.<br>Having baths or showers.<br>Recovering from illness or hangovers.<br>Deciding that enough is enough.

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John Keates

London Area