on location
When we reached Barafundle
the script was still being mangled
by the director. His kind of thickness
took years to develop.
We parked the two caravans
on the clifftop, and the girl gave us
cheese crusts and hot Bovril.
The three actors sulked among the sheep.
A disaster of lost celluloid,
a few thin talents wasted away
kicking heels in the sea tussock
and clamping mud. The camera jammed
while the director did his Visconti,
having orgasms over coastal light.
I watched the life of a dead poet
disappear on perishable film.
At dusk we packed up, beaten
by temperamental gadgets, foul weather
and moods. I flung the soggy script
into a hedge, joining the black tantrum.
The church clock tinnily struck six,
all the sensible sheep stared at us,
the gulls floated in merriment
and the sea laughed on the sands.
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