Thursday, 17 May 2018

"performance poet" on the 629


Unsolicited 
The wag broke its beard 
I'm a poet 
I strangle the air
He Ejaculated 
I am the passenger 
On a bus in Leeds 
Lidl passed unnoticed 
In the traffic light 
of a thousand Armley felons 
Weeping in their soup 
The canal which goes to Liverpool 
Lolloped by as well 
Sorry that's obscure 
I cannot fukcing spell

Everyone's a poet now 
Including me 
All working class sentiment 
Lowryesque and feral crudity 
Anyone can p and q it 
Since the advent 
Of kindness 
Equality 
The age of Aquarius 
Awareness 
The comforting of shoes
No more nasty blisters
Indestructible 
Low in price 
Pong resistant 
Water tight  
We are all entitled now 
To proclaim our love of crack 
explain away the lack 
Of eloquence in our life
With a birthday card rhyme 
Ga ga goo goo 
Love me 
27 pence 
There's a factory 
In scunthorpe
Where they make 
These fundaments expostulate 
Miasmic as the breath 
Of our omnibusal stranger 
Stubbing out his message 
On the back of someone's seat
A cigarette in the hand 
Is better than a bird 
In your face 
He said it was a way 
This poetry thing 
This parting of the beard
A brilliant way 
More or less infallible 
A way to attract 
Fill in the blank 
She/he/it
Into the lair of disgrace 
When they come to his place 
After the engagement 
For post poetic entertainment 

This proclamation gogged me 
To the core 
Never occurred to me before 
Can't unthink the thought 
It smack-in-the-gobbed-me
Like a dandelion seed
On Sellotape 
Stuck and bloody 
Wafting like a guilty plea 
Before an Implacable judge
Now I can't unsee 
Can't become unbudged 
A little part of me 
Is forever on that bus 
Waiting to be hanged 
Like a Christmas bauble 
Thoughts have got their 
Pants on 
Whilst fantasies just dawdle
I am now press ganged 
By the flood of realization 
That these words 
Seen through an absurd prism  
Lock me in their prison 

To steal a line from Pinter 
One from the dumb waiter 
"That never occurred to me"
That some daft sod 
Would want to sleep with you
For opening your gob
With a gag line on cue.


17/05/18

















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