Hell’S Heaven Is Between My Ears: (Or Heaven’S Hell Is Between My Ears) a Poetic Odyssey
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I am not here yet,
cant be here yet.
Im just lying on my back,
trapped in a tiny useless body,
with eyes that cant focus.
This is the story, told in poetry and connecting narrative, of an old soul beginning its current incarnation. Its the experience of an infinite consciousness struggling to hang on to the memories and many identities of countless lifetimes. This consciousness pieces the different events of his/her former lives and tries to hang onto who he or she really is before forgetting and playing the latest game of life.
Hells Heaven Is Between My Ears is a bold experiment in narrative form using the medium of poetry to tell a story in a way which only poetry can express.
The last lives still haunt me,
my true love waits in the space beyond.
My dearest,
I was foolish to leave you,
for in this existence.
It is nonexistence I long for
Elliott Stein
Originally from New York, Elliott has adopted London as his home for the last thirty years and intends to do so for the next thirty. In addition to being a writer, he is a producer, director and actor in film, TV, radio and theatre. He was the scriptwriter and played the role of The Brooklyn Monk in the absurdist BBC radio drama ROBERT RANKIN’S THE BRIGHTONOMICON starring David Warner and Andy Serkis. His upcoming comedy novel THE BATTERY OPERATED MAGIC TOUPEE is scheduled for publication later in the year.
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Hell’S Heaven Is Between My Ears - Elliott Stein
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All photographs © 2014 Elliott Stein
Dead Bug On My Toast and Brave All American Fool – © 2014 – Hanging Around Mutating
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Contents
Introduction
Never Will Always
So Me, So You, So Us
Starbucks Oblivion
Handfast
The Magic Scribble
Dead Bug On My Toast
Electric Blue Suede
Lovers in Disguise
My True Hate
Idiots
At The End Of Time
Ever So Brief
Legion Of The Nameless.
Poem to the Richelou Statue Room- Louve Fri Jan 2001
The Small Man
Corporate On My Knees
Burn It All
Twits
All American Fool
Military Men From The Doomsday Opera
The Courtroom
Novocain Dreams
The Clown
Synthetic Jungle
Is There An Electronic Conspiracy Against Me?
I Love My Knee
The Building
The Fool
To The Estranged But Never-to-be Forgotten
Media Chapter Two
Writing Whore
Ode To Empty Headed
Don’t Be Afraid To Go To Hell
Holiday For Idiots
Lifetime Work: Condensed And Combined
Lifetime Work: Continued And Abused
Night People In Twilight Dreams
Bleeding Inside
Unshaven Fallen Angels
You Know Where Love Has Gone Wrong
End Of Hearts
Platitudes Of The Lonely
Sex on mind
Transformation
With You
Thank you
I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.
- Walt Whitman
Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.
Woody Allen
Introduction
"Life’s a bitch –
and then you write a poem about it"
It’s the bitter cold winter of 1986, I’m a twenty-five year old American living in a dingy room in a grimy house share in Woodgreen, North London. It was a depressing house with miserable view from my window.
Directly across the high street was a Greek butcher with a grotesque, disembodied, pig’s head hanging from a hook in the window. When I looked out my window I was face to snout with that obscene bacon monstrosity.
Something woke me up. I