Jem Rolls

Nothing else exists like it on earth.

And like I say, for a long time, I was the only poet that found it.

And it does free me up the rest of the year.

And the summer is shattering.

I will do 65 shows this year.

I'm actually doing three different shows at points across the summer.

I've never done more than one.

But it's the new show that's the tough bit.

So I start in Montreal in 10 weeks time.

And that is the tough bit.

So a show I've done before.

I do a Greatest Hits show in Orlando.

and I do last year's show from Santa Catriona onwards and that's fine in a sense, it's work, you've got to get up to speed, but the new stuff, that's a tough bit.

Well, it's a long one.

Very few things happen quickly, but one I just did, that actually happened within, probably within two days in France.

I'd just been in Mont-Saint-Michel and hated it.

So, but that's not normal.

And also, there are lots of lines in it that I've had for...

years and years which i finally found a way of using you know so that's not normal most things take a lot longer and i frequent them just putting ideas together and taking them apart putting ideas together until they actually start making something you know so um they um they kind of achieve a whole maybe then i find that what they're about and again other ideas i've had so i'm always writing down zillions of ideas i have a vast bucket

of unused ideas which never gets any empty no matter how much i take things out of it so basically i do and i have effectively i have a list of one liners and you know my favorite you know and it's 30 pages of one liners and effectively the first the first five pages i like them all i like all of them so that's a good 100 120 one liners and i mean in this year's show i will probably use up 25 30 of them yeah and um but you're just kind of looking for a home for good ideas because