mikeku

prior to the test of our ricky pontings lord mj clarked 23 tips for succesful living:

when eatin wearin

a hoodie tie the cords back

drinkin beam take it neat

w a single ice block

lose the ability

to distinguish batting

from not batting life

when laras sittin

on yr shoulders remember

that cats there

chew bubblegum flav

oured chewing gum

listening to joy

division think by making

sounds

to execute the

high five look at the

other cats elbow

on the ice road use

low gear n wear skins

know the policy

and when its practical to

apply it

doin yr hair is

less important than doin

things with close regard

to how its sittin

bowies suggestions

always demand respect

watchin truckers die

i learn no journeys an end

no innings complete

when alls left aheads

lonely winter indulge yr

inner footy hero card

i look good in warnos

lambo i look good in

hover lara back

craft to track you

hover in the air

trust the field to find yr cap stylish

coffee qualitys

in inverse into steak sandwich quality

only dead ends just a

tight bend turn n call loudly

run on buddy

once dead it is

no longer possible

to destroy any attack

wing attack must wear

the wristband

on the left

indulge man leather footy

hero card

select

pear

intense

blinding

noir

lambies

the 24th tip is:

goin out on a

carrot m more autistic

than diabetic

cricketers in winter

kps living dangerously as long as hes living kps a massive threat

before i ricky ponting was through typing the above line hilfenhaus smashed kps wkts it was all astonishing. the ball penetrates the batsmans heart. the wkts are guarded as the most valuable treasure or volatile secret of all time all space – kp lets it go in.

winter is a nontime. cricketers enter stasis. the dreams they havere vivid but rarely remembered beyond a few details. these details are useless to the cricketer – they have been held onto only because some familiar thing allows the detail to be in some way intelligible. the bulk of any dream is entirely fantastic and provides all manner of sensational experience and the keys to unthought problems. if a cricketer clarke for example was to awaken during winter and leave the casing the experience would surpass even this dream bulk. he would find winter people initially incomprehensible. within new relationships clarke would be an altogether different entity perhaps a number of them. it would not take long for friendship to develop.

on the radio some guy is talking about tripping on mushrooms for 4 hours he lay in a field havin all sorts of glorious revelations about his realm the elements that inhabitat it and the relations between them. in the glorious cardiff sun lolling about on the green. fielding in fawkner park claras learned much. warno getting back to his troubling best claims the wkt of strauss haddin rises into they sky in recognition.

out of the footholes they rise up grabbing for debris

sophia gardens the wettest fine leg in the world

claras dancin

padding up to the great bonfire all the small beasts had lighted to make the dark n the cold go away

had a feeling the hill was thronged with people never caught sight of anybody

at the foot of mt ida

many times much later hed a dream about how hed felt that 3rd triumphant time

only the snout bore some resemblance

the ice sagged heaved n sank again n every now n then thundered the canon salute of festivity n destruction sent delightful cold thrills up her back

the guests bowed to the sleeping family n obligingly rolled themselves up in carpets n tablecloths the smallest ones went to sleep in caps

manifesting as clarke his feetre fast zip down the wkt spring back n hammer the most glamorous of pulls to the fence claras nothing but feet

pink experiment day 2

pinkwatching hayden and hussey struggle yesterday – to witness a creature actually truly struggle, to see every grimace of concentration and modulation of approach all the attempts to figure something out seeing them expending every effort and all energy on the struggle – i was watching movements entirely to do with faith.

the 30s that each made took every little piece of life from the batsmen and every piece of assistance they were able to harness from outside neither could have possibly scored another run

the knight of faith probably by mistake or by chance (without intention) makes himself higher than the outside surpassing the ethical the universal. faith begins where thinking leaves off – hayden and hussey found themselves firmly entrenched within consideration. what their team needs from them, what to do to deliver it, how to engage with the south africans on favourable terms what terms should they accept. hayden and hussey were full of consideration. hayden has in the past been a very considerate batsman but all that was under consideration then was the ball and its area. the ball is a figure that needs to be dwelt on far more extensively ‚Äì warne now god he is the ball of the century. to consider only the ball is perhaps the key to faith to make a move into the infinite take yourself beyond a position of equality with the ball to a position of lording it over the ball the giant sorcerer emperor hayden once was

pup-dog-clarkes a gangsta of faith

experiment 2 day 3

a standard formula looks like this (0 v [0) v 0] etc

so young and full of passion

even if wed a wish to

its not within our power to stop him

cricket can be difficult to pin down

it takes place upon a floating spinning interstellar disc

over a vague vast period of time

its forms change constantly each

particular form is always absolutely interchangeable

with any other form hussey will umpire the afternoon session

crickets absurdity is not only apparent but actual

a michael clarke form is taken up and developed

the infinite is added to

(clarke v [duminy) + steyn] etc

today was unthinkable

but only if yr lazy baby

each taking up of form constitutes a battle between universes

eventually there is some kind of outcome

things fall a certain way and the entire field of universes are reconstituted

accordingly if one is to grasp this through the

commitment of some act of passion sense the field and come to live with it

one is now infinite siddhartha joan of arc kierkegaard 4ier

duminy everything falls head over heels for duminy

to understand the greatness of duminys innings one only has to

think what if mcgrath and warne were playing and realise

it would have made absolutely no difference

experiment 2 day 1

the sun deligthful green squares shimmering and shifting on vertical planes

crowd moronic beer snakes delightful

clarke bats an innings rooted in faith – that at some point his fellows would choose also to bat or that by virtue of still being in the time would arrive for him to march launch an assault of his own

amidst dropping wkts and a faithless crowd with no time for cricket or clarke or a struggling team clarke maintains. 30 runs from 150 balls he would have been perfectly happy to have scored 0 yet still be in after 150 balls. its possible a test match rests on the movements of clarkes faith and the way the powers it produces fall

the experiment so far has followed a form of attrition. rsa largely set benign fields bowled full and straight (very well) and waited for errors clarke denied all possibility of error and on the strength of faith batted himself deep into the ground. day 2 we watch carefully for the first signs of him wriggling free then blazing in the infinite. an innings of value = to 2 simultaneuous beer snakes stretching the length of the great southern stand concourse – bending in an unlikely curve to join up at the ends faith and son in tact

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cricket worlds gone bananas

india are in a tizz n threatening taking

their bat n stumps n heading home

the stuff thats being written!!!!!!!!

roebucks lost his marbles completey

everyones acting like a bunch of m**keys

the pup is a wonder

boy m**key king takes a great low catch

and dreams up a finish that no one seems

tove noticed indias brilliant at

deflecting shame n disgrace

bhaji wears a great tshirt