An Utter Waste of Time
The early collected writing of Davies Musau: poems on selfhood, belief, class, love and the pressure to become acceptable, alongside short fiction.
An Utter Waste of Time: The Collected Works, Volume 1 is the recovered 83-page early collection credited to Davies Musau and Muse of Awe Publishing. Its own introduction describes the work as an attempt to channel the human condition into metaphor. The archive is associated with 2020 in the later original-text thermal edition; that is an archive year, not an invented date of commercial publication.
The poems already contain many of the questions that recur across DAVIEY's later work: who gets to define a person, what conformity costs, how dignity survives poverty, the contradictions of charity, the artist's place in a practical family, and the mixture of love and anger with which the world is met. Humour, wordplay, spiritual irreverence and confrontation belong to the originals.
The recovered text contains 54 complete unique poems, five exact repeat appearances that have been consolidated, and two title-only pages. The fiction section contains Don Stavo, Before I Go Bang!, The Walk and Flight 666. Individual records preserve the writing and trace it to physical PDF pages. Original spelling and phrasing are retained; any later editorial revision belongs in a separate version rather than being silently passed off as the original.