Depression
There’s nowt round here but wasted opportunities,
two or more pushchairs constitutes community,
“no-one smiles”, the badge of indignity,
the most used queue is the one for electricity
TOKENS
high-rise tenement heart-broken,
yearns for pleasure unspoken,
Daydream Tee-Vee
comfy setee
casualty
accident & emergency
........SOCIAL CLUB...
..down the “RUB-A-DUB”
DUB AN’ BASS
Time and place
vanish without trace in the land of the briefcase
no jobs at the coalface no room in the ratrace
selling jesus on a pillowcase
while your soul falls from grace
your light vanishes without trace
your brain starts to think............
poetry can be really depressing
especially when you’re dressing
to go out to dinner
and wishing you were thinner
and wanting to be a winner
so we can have more losers
more unfulfilled consumers
the last thing you want
is a SACRED CLOWN
making you frown
bringing you down
bringing you ROUND
with the SOUND
of your ROUND
AND ROUND
the Mulberry BUSH!!!
BUSH? BUSH?
did somebody say ’
“’BUSH?“
SWOOSH AMBUSH
Paper money from the bark
“in god we trust”, quite frank
promises the bank
of pyramids
the bank of semi-SOLID
PROMISES
TO THE BEARER
What could be FAIRER?
Are you a SHARER?
or a FAILURE........
to overstand
the PROMISED LAND
was always in our HANDS
till you took it from our care
and made us unaware
that we even owned a share
of this earthly paradise
as you rented us a slice
and told us we were mice
well! isn’t that nice
to be getting advice
from the ministry of PRICE
to suit all pockets
invested in rockets
cash crops for guns
fast food in a bun
truth on the run
beg for the crumbs
from the VAMPIRES
from the VULTURES
who design your
FUTURE
then sell you HERE&NOW
on an instalment plan
with a final demand
for more prompt payments
for the balance outstanding
bailiffs IMPENDING
more paper lending
PROMISES THE BEARER
there could be quarer
times than this
hit and miss
jug-o-piss
just round the corner
of a windswept
tenement block
could be molten rock
or some porn-stars cock
selling you a CROCK
of something less
than WHOLESOME
of something less
than FREEDOM
Of a product called
EMOTION-INNA-LOTION
MAJIK-POTION-PROMOTION
BRAND-LOYAL-DEVOTION
with nothing to pay
BANISHES GREY
and gets in the corners
where others cant reach
on a “holiday-brochure-beach”
with your elektronik LEASH
BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND
like a flag of BELIEF
vanity steals your beauty
like a THIEF
there’s no let up
no RELIEF
JUST TASTE SENSATIONS
AND SPARKLING TEETH
0% FINANCE
and 100% GRIEF
