1980s SCHOOL WAS

COLD ELECTRO

the electro from Soho and Basildon

is

cold as a Chiltern cave

and

speaks

to

my alienation

much more

than

the pop stars

poncing about

like

pompadour peacocks

on Top Of The Pops

on wednesday

after

The Muppet Show

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I WAS GOOSE

at

school

everyones seen Top Gun

so

everyones an Iceman or a Maverick

but

because

i 

am in a low pressure flat spin
and

i

watch

1950s allegorical westerns

on

BBC2 instead

apparently

that

makes me Goose

not

Gary Cooper

from www.squadronposters.com

SPAMMING TEFALS

everyone is slapping everyone else

on

the

forehead

then

shouting SPAM or TEFAL

or 

punching legs and arms

with

the

middle knuckle sticking out

then

shouting DEAD LEG or DEAD ARM

and

we

all

call each other FASCISTS

tho

no one

knows

what it means

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FRIGGING IN THE RIGGING

untouchable big kids

make

cudgels

in

woodwork

banging nails thru balsa wood

to

hit smaller kids with

all

the

way

home

reciting Beastie Boys lyrics

in their faces

like gospel

bruises and wounds

lied away

round the supper table

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TRIO

everyone is obsessed

with

WHO COULD HAVE WHO

in a playground ruck

that

never

happens

we all work out odds like junior bookies

and everyone is obsessed

with

WHO GOT OFF WITH WHO

and

tho

no one

tells the truth

if

someone gets three fingers in

they

are allowed to sing

the

song

from

the Trio choc bar ad

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JIMMY HILL

when the school was set on fire

and

the library burned down

and

everything was stinking and brown

the

police came up to my art class

because

someone fingered my name

and

tho

i was drawing a man with his face on fire

it

wasn’t me who did it

it was a cocky arsehole

with a Jimmy Hill chin

who did it

he used to make supply teachers cry

during

the

union strikes

now

he

is

gone

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ARE YOU CAS ?

and

all the in-kids

wear clothes

with tiny animals

over the left tit

and 

exotic Italian names

and

always

ask

poorer kids

ARE YOU CASUAL ? 

ARE YOU ?  

ARE YOU CAS ?

what do you say when everyone is CAS ?

with

Nike this

and

Fila that

Puma Top Winners

get you by at a distance

but

they’re

not 

Ivan Lendls

from  80scasualclassics.co.uk

BLUE PETERS CULTURAL IMPACT

Joey was the insult

i heard

all day everywhere

in all my schools

till

we

had

this one assembly

and

they said THREE OUT OF EVERY TEN OF YOU WILL DIE FROM AIDS

and

after

that

Homo

was

the insult

i heard

all day everywhere

in all my schools

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