Poetry

Sunday, 3 October 2021

The ghost of Christmas past or Brexit's Monster

 There'll be pigs in blankets

huddling cold meat in the street

And chlorinated chicken getting cold chicken feet

The response has been paltry poultry and foul Fowl

And it's fair game for the pheasants

Who follow the plough


And furlongs of furloughs have run the furrows low

As the mechanized industry is on the hill's brow

Like a silouhette of a monster in the dawn's early glow

Well its Brexit's monster now


What the working class wanted were better wages

To get the jobs back that they felt were their heritage

But what they have got are empty shelves and vacancies

Which none of them will fill for they've run out of sympathies


The jobs don't pay high enough they say with disdain

Then doctor Brexit comes at them again and again

This is independent Britain, this your birth right's claim

But who will do the work is Dr Brexit's Monster


He's mean and he's stiff, he's wonky and lacks self control

But his bionic limbs and till fields for vegetables

He can plough furrows, and he can glean lands

And he doesn't mind getting dirt on his hands


Oh sure he's an android, but what did you expect?

From the next generation of workers after Brexit

Few British workers could compete with European toll

And therefore our farming will be under mechanized control


They wanted higher wages, what they got was higher prices

of Food, fuel, electricity and gas in their houses

And if they can get to work at all

They can barely afford their utility bill

Oh it's the revenge of Brexit's monster


Well we treated him like he was a fool,

Writhing around in a small gene pool

With recruitment sharks hanging around his school

Yes he's an office clerk because he don't work with tools


He's got a mental age of 3 but he's learning fast

From his AI brain and his hardwired heart

And his mother board's fried and his fatherland

Smells of fart

Oh he's Brexit's monster

Friday, 1 October 2021

It was nothing urgent

 It was nothing urgent

Not something I really meant for you to know

You're probably too busy

So let's get on with the show


It was nothing urgent

Don't mind me if I say

Hello how are you?, please get on with your day


Everyone's in a panic

Like there's a powder keg below their feet

And they're running like pandas

Black and white down the street


They must do their shopping

They must fight the other one

It is like a parade

Of the nuclear mum


And everyone is rushing

Like the nuclear family might explode

Like if you aren't on their side

You need to get out of the road


But can't you see it is a fever

Of the damned lost of self-control

Everyone swimming in a hellish river

Like doomed fish in a shoal


And the whale is coming 

Its mouth is open wide

It will swallow them all up

Like it swallows their pride


It was nothing urgent

I just called to let you know

That we need a new government

One that will let the country grow

Thursday, 30 September 2021

Gold bricking

 He was the king of shit

He was king midas of the golden toilet

Did his shit smell better than everyone else's? 

Of course, for it was made of gold


Pure 24 carat golden nuggets came out of his rectum

sometimes they cracked the toilet basin

But mostly he was able to fish them out and hoard them

This King Midas of the commode


Nothing he touched turned to Gold in his life

He bearly even had green fingers

But when it came to the toilet or WC, without strife

He was on to a winner


Sometimes they would come out like gold bricks

Then he could begin to build his palace

Not much need for the shitty end of the stick

He was already down the rabbit hole like Alice


Oh of course it was sometimes painful

And to be constipated with gold is a bind

But if you can drink tea, piss gold dust in your wee

Then the long wait is really worth the find




Your love means nothing at all

 Your love means nothing at all

When I hit back your top spinning ball

And you make a racket about a packet of crisps

And break a few eggs on the court

Your love means nothing at all


You hold up your eyes to the sun, to the sun

Your holy orbs, burning the one

In tents of the desert and curtains that flair

Across the bright present

A ghost of a care

But your love means nothing at all



Another thing coming

 If you think like that

You've got another thing coming

They're running rats down through the grubbing

If you think like that you've got another thing coming


He's so arrogant, he's got another thing coming

If you think like that you've got another thing coming

Well they were waiting in the line at the rodeo

Waiting to see old tom foolio

If you think that he won't buck you

He will tho

If you think like that you've got another thing coming

And another and another

Just another thing coming

Down the road to Babylon

Just another, and another

another thing coming on the road just another one


Well buses they never come when you need them

And horses never drink where you lead them

and the forces of chance are like arrows that glance

Off the targets when you don't heed them

Well you think you've understood? But you've got another thing coming

And another, another, another and another

Yeah you've got another thing coming


And if you think that good fortune, should be your birthright

Then you take a left at the sand dunes and turn on your headlights

You'll see a rabbit with another thing coming 


Doesn't matter if you have respect, things never do quite what you expect

Oh because you've got another thing coming





New life

 I got a new life

One I don't regret

I want a new life

One where I can forget

That old life

Where the rain always was

wet

Running down the window

of my chances


I'm in a new house

One of hope and life

Living like a church mouse

But away from a roaring wife

Needing a new douse

Of something like a fire

To cleanse me of my misery

and a memory that sours


Take me on board

Take me as I am

I'm in a new hoard

I feel like a new man

Give me overlord

With a brand new plan

I am getting a new life

Last resort

 Give me back the kingdom

Of the last resort

Out of all life's freedoms

And give me back my sport

To the witching hour where

The cats have power

And I neither need the lava nor 

The kind of hurt