I spend the last 20 years dismissing poetry as being something for people too lazy to paint, then when something about painting that really bugs me comes along, I don't have the urge to do a painting, but to write a poem. I wrote this as soon as I woke up this morning:
Billy Childish is no liar.
Billy Childish is a good friend.
Billy Childish wouldn't talk shit about me or my work behind my back that contradicts everything he's said to my face over the last 13 years about Heckel's Horse and my artistic contribution to it.
Whatever's the reason for his quote in Ted Kessler's book: To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorised Unauthorised History of Billy Childish, I'll publish my cotton socks off disputing it because, like Billy Childish, I care about the truth.
Billy Childish is a good friend.
This is one of my only poems.
Edgeworth Johnstone (aka Heckel's Horse Jr.)
It follows on from last night's Black Ivory podcast with 
