Every one a different view
Everyone a different you
People people people
Top to bottom
Remembered and forgotten
People people people
Black to white
Dark to light
People people people
But a fight starts
Cos one thinks he’s better than the other
People divide into parts
And start a war
People?
Author: shaun tenzenmen
Australasian DIY music specialist and practising poet, amongst other things
I Thought You Were A Christian – 27th September 1984
Say you believe in God
Hold the bible, hold the rod
You continue to pick on me
Who’s the fool? Ha, we’ll see
I thought you were a Christian
I’m a patronising shit
You get what you deserve
Every little bit
Clouds – 26th September 1984
Cover
Over
Clouds in the sky
Up so high
Disintegrate over me
My cover gone
You have won
Who Started It? – 25th September 1984
I don’t know how I manage to do it
No one wants to see me through it
All I ever got were questions to which I could not reply
‘Do you love me?’, ‘Say you do’, “I wanna know why?’
It doesn’t matter who started this affair
All that matters is that we still care
Although all is over and is said and done
Don’t look at me as though I’m the only one
There were things I could never explain to you
I didn’t think I was getting through
Now I just want you to remain a friend
And we can be like that to the end
1st July 2023 – This must have been about Zoe from Northampton, whom I had met in the summer (in 83?) when she was on holiday with her family. We wrote to each other and sometimes talked to each other on the phone and at one point she came and stayed for a few days. During that time, I had my first sexual experiences though I remained a virgin as we were both afraid of her getting pregnant.
The distance between teenage lovers was too much for me to deal with and perhaps I also, deludedly, believed I could do better. I couldn’t.
*The Week That Was – 24th September 1984
Record of the week: UK Decay – For Madmen Only LP, Disorder – Under The Scalpel Blade, Chaotic Dischord – 12″
24th September 1984
Watched telly in evening. It’s getting winterier. A definite chill in the air.
25th September 1984
Put in bike for service. Got it back at five. Bloke said I looked after it quite well. Really. It only cost £18 odd. Watched Silent Movie – good. Write a good song. IN TWO MINDS. Waited for the right time to write SHE’S SO BEAUTIFUL….
27th September 1984
Had a go at Jasper for picking on Martin.
28th September 1984
Fuck all happened. Found out Conflict is next Sunday.
Miners Strike – 23rd September 1984
No one listens to each other
Everyone quiet, all keeping mother
Until you get to the lines
And you shout mine, mine, mines
Talk round the table doesn’t get very far
The miners just smashed another car
Don’t you understand what each other is saying?
You know that you’ll both end up paying
1st July 2023 – I only had vague ideas about the realities of the miners and their strikes against nationalisation in the 80s. I guessed it was a battle between a. government and its people and I sided with the people. From the outside, it must have felt like a dispute that would never resolve as no one was prepared to give up anything.
Page Three Poem – 22nd September 1984
This is a pair of tits
This is a beach ball
This is a bikini
This is………..nothing at all
Veggie – 21st September 1984
You call me veggie cos I don’t eat meat
So I can call you animal cos you think it’s a treat
Blood is pouring off your sterilised plate
But you can never sterilise my hate
You animal
Meat means murder
So what if you’ve heard it before
You never thought twice
Cos you don’t listen anymore
29th June 2023 – I was a staunch inarticulate vegetarian at this time. In small-town England alternative views were a battleground and expressing anything like this could see you vilified or beaten. I’m not militant about eating a vegetarian diet these days and slowly more people are conscious of the suffering their own lifestyles bring to other beings. Do what you can.
Scratch – 20th September 1984
The dog’s got fleas
So has the cat
Get them a flea collar
Or something like that
If you don’t scratch
Nothing else will
I’m sure this flea
Is out to kill
