“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” – Andre Gide
You’re at the altar
Just about to marry
You worship Hari Krishna
Committing harikari
11th May 2023 – Until I was about 25 I swore I wouldn’t marry. Since then I’ve been married three times and although love was involved in all of them they were essentially just to get visas. One for me to stay in Australia and the second and third for my wives to stay in Australia.
I’ll lose my patience
You’re trying me
I’ll have to take stringent action
You’ll see
“Quiet, you lot of rabble
Or else you’ll be in deep trouble”
‘Patience, sir, is a fuckin’ virtue’
“Just shut up or I’ll fuckin’ hurt you”
8th May 2023 – I think this would have also been inspired by Mr Hayward who often made useless threats to us students. We did surely test his patience in every class. It was totally a game to us.
You got no brains
You lie to me
Never tell the truth
You’re blinding me
You’re rubbish
You’re scum
You’re useless
Shit on my bum
7th May 2023 – I was always upset with someone I thought was my friend but never thought about whether I was being a good friend. A typical selfish teen.
Paddy paddy paddy wagon
Take you to the nick
Paddy paddy paddy wagon
Do just the trick
Arrested from all hope
At last night’s do
It was a fun party
Til the coppers joined in too
7th May 2023 – This possibly connects to a great party at someone’s house in Colehill. I think it was someone I vaguely knew from a year or two below me in school. It was fun for a while, a big house with lots of rooms to discover, parents away.
But it got boring watching the trendy kids dance to mind-numbing disco crap so I went around to find rooms empty of people and started stealing little bits and pieces that might go unnoticed for a while. As I got more into it though I started taking more.
The next day I heard that the police had been called to come and investigate and I waited at home wondering if I would get arrested. Nothing came of it in the end though. My apologies to any of the kids that I may have traumatised.
Tracy is lovely
But demonic in her lust
She has lost all my hope
Cos of her chronic trust
7th May 2023 – I don’t remember who this Tracy was but I was obviously upset about her sexual aggressiveness that made her less attractive to me. And, of course, all this could’ve been just in my head.
This is Toytown where Noddy lives
And Big Ears is a Jehovah’s Witness
People wear hats with bells
Land of lobotomy brain cells
Feeling really mad
But you’re not insane
You drive yourself madder
Til you lose your brain
Think again about going mad
The end result could be bad
You don’t intend to lose your brain
But in the end, you go insane
It’s a sporting life supporting life
For the pregnant mums on the ward
All the hard work that has to follow
I think debut mums should be warned
5th May 2023 – Not sure what prompted this empathetic little ode. I definitely wasn’t speaking from any experience.
In and out lifestyle, it becomes a bore
It’s boring doing the same things, I won’t anymore
In and out, repeat, repeat, clock the card
In and out, clocked in, trying too hard
5th May 2023 – Despite never having worked a day in my life I already was aware of the realities of the rat race. I’ve spent many years clocking in and out since then and admittedly, I do still hate that.
