I GREW UP IN THE UK VOL 1

i grew up in the uk
jimmy saville on tv

granting kids wishes
making kids happy

i grew up in the uk
windsor cartel street party
1977 silver jubilee


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i live in the uk
jimmy saville still on tv

no ones happy now
everyone is sorry

i live in the uk
windsor cartel street party
2022 platinum jubilee


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& the dog shit back then
was white & dry on the bicycle pavement

its brown now
& neatly bagged up in the park path trees

OUTSIDE THE DEATH MACHINES GLOW

had a new sweatshirt
          bought for holiday wear

had a golden footballer
          sewn there on its brown tit

i can still almost smell it

          feel the freshness / the treat

      if  i  think  hard  enough

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was a summer dusk walk 

           under seaside streetlights

197? &

     i  can  still  almost  live  it

if i relax enough 

           into the backward flux

           

outside the 

           death machines glow

BROWN LAGOONS

  we sail on
     on brown lagoons

  bomb winds in
       the credit sale sails

  in this

     the bluest

     of the

     b l a c k
     h o u r s

AUTUMN ANATOMY - GUTTER CLOTS OF NEVERMIND

its static fire
&
earth-tone rainbow

its crisp orange
&
ruby picasso

form 
gutter clots
of nevermind

~

its impossible yellows
have
a
sternness to throw away

&
its valuable contacts
are a basic concern

~

fresh
flesh
dew 
embalmed

form
gutter clots 
of nevermind

decorating 
in cocky blank statement

~

its art - earth installed

&
it covers the plastic litter

uv'd as brittle 
as carehome bones

with
gutter clots
of nevermind

RUSSIA CALLING

i want
to breath
that blank
russian air again

want to dwarf myself
in eternal foyers
too brown
to echo

want to smell the diesel
melt the snow
in
the
imposition streets

want to see 
the grey domino
city scrape
thru
the
bad glass 
twentieth floor 
windows

over a river
gone solid
where no one skates

and count those copper tubes again
in
the
airport
as
i
leave again

but that was gorbys days

and i was western air

supervised around
that
strange flipside
of
cold war freeze

russias calling-

its price chalked
on the soles
of its awkward
evening shoes

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