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One Hundred and Twenty​-​Seven Pedestrians

from The Pre​-​War Noise Encryption Standard by Nigel Ayers

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One Hundred and Twenty-Seven Pedestrians


If there's something you want to see,
let me get it.
You know what I mean?
Dawn came every day,
but we just don't know it.
No one answered,
but she crept along the side of it
in between smooth, rubber waves
to find out how far you'll fall.
From that enormous mound of sand
that formed her name
with three inch thick foam covered boards.
The light from above there
now touched the pavement
teeming with one hundred and twenty-seven pedestrians.

He sat absolutely still.
And he thought of the beach
as the beeping noise continued. .
His hands went to his mouth.
The rotting tongue and lips
were teasing and licking
as electric tingles shot through his brain,
but he came back again and again.

The air struck him in the face,
too hot to breathe.
He didn't make a sound.
He took a deep breath,
smiled and gestured.
His bare skin was warm against the portable radio.
He scratched his neck and all at once
swung away from the apparition
and opened the screen behind him.

But he couldn't see,
and he stumbled down some sort of long,
long thread of electronic vomit.
People with long hair, bushy hair absorb the signal.
But the metal had suddenly become red hot.
He saw steel-grey mountains
and lush green neurological energy
straighten out the familiar features.

He ran down the stairs to the dumpster,
leaving safety.
Leaving a five foot high glowing object
that had just pulled from the black and grey striped sheets.
Glass fragments were scattered across the bedspread.

Noise had to be kept to a minimum,
no-one can touch and feel a mirage.
Embracing a switch that caused different images
to be displayed on the concrete wall,
there was a wet gurgling noise
and suddenly the beeping stopped.

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from The Pre​-​War Noise Encryption Standard, released February 3, 2023
Words and music by Nigel Ayers

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Nocturnal Emissions' Nigel Ayers has continued to work with a strong underground of cult support, avoiding music industry fashions, and following his own creative path he concentrated on creating a strong sense of a wilderness identity through sound.

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