1. OUTSIDE THE BOOZE MACHINE
youre in love
if
that
FM
MOR
that used to be
lazy
offensive
chaff
for the losers
outside the booze machine
now makes simple sense
cos youre in the club now
and like a child
grasping the 1 2 3s
you
learnt
the
code
2. WOULDNT ASK WOULDNT LISTEN
if a younger me
(dying in denim every day)
met the older me
(alive in elastic comfort)
be like
hash sparks
clashing with
the codeine blues
he wouldnt ask
and
he wouldnt listen
to any wisdom
id fake out
of my back pocket
i couldnt expect him too
i remember his box
but i like to think
he would at least say
nice trainers
and
exactly 15% of your records are cool
before he was quickly
on his way
3. THE BEIGE BRIGADE
theres a man in pale beige
60 odd
a polo shirt 80s striped
wash faded
into
the
colour of the moon
he lifts a daily mail
out the stand
like its a birth right
he gives each page
exactly the same
amount of time and attention
over eggs and bacon and tea
in the tesco cafe level 1
he looks up periodically
with suspicion
with superiority
laced with classic hp and fear
and i hope
when he gets back
to his greasy armchair
waiting in his terrace hole
his
wife
will
tell him to belt up
and
put
that
shit
rag
down
4. TO BE A BEAST
got sweat shop rags on
coffee in a forever bucket
wondering
about
function creep
endor
and
operation paperclip
and later therell be meat
metallic
from
screams and steroids
but its good
to be a beast
eating a beast
and i toe the line
and i toe the rag
and if i done everything i could
then everythings done me too
5. ENTROPY ?
i feel flat
and disarranged
as a kids
fridge door scrawl
all
my
thoughts squeezed out
into
a
single
speech
bubble
that
says
?
in wobbly crayon
from the telegraph.co.uk
