Name: machine shop
Duration: P00H02M24S
Description: Recorded Shaky Studios with Fred Renata. Mastered at Arcade by Rohan Evans.

machine shop

by David Merritt

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Recorded Shaky Studios with Fred Renata. Mastered at Arcade by Rohan Evans.

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machine shop

the smell is so familiar
of oil and burning metals and
I am in an engineering workshop
with merlin fixing his landrover
gear stick swivel ball locator pin,

where the machines sit squat, solid, metallic, green,
they carry the names of english engineering
equipment manufacturers from manchester,
sheffield, bradford, wigan, leeds,

they sit in serried rows,
quiet for now but with an
unexplored kinetic menace

I remember how easily they would
cut crush nick mangle maim
innocent digits and flail raw skin raw,
pinch, burn, bruise, tear my father daily

each and every item of equipment
is designed to mould or
transform metal in some way
to bend twist pound press
drill cut thread crease
cast bolt rent and join

but there on the floor
cast down into the oil
ingrained by various
spills and accidents
decades old are the
spiralled shavings swarfs
thinned down
into small
representations of reverse
opposites
negatives

in a parallel universe they mimic
and complete twisted threads
of bolts and studs,
grindings of countless
rusty sheets and plates
misplaced welds and
burning molten metal droplets

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released February 12, 2018
David Merritt - vocals
Justine Francis - viola

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