Tag: poem
Don’t wanna watch The Sound of Music
Nasty – 27th December 1983
Killer bee stings me
Rash comes up very nasty
Going to town but I’m going crazy
Sit back and die, too lazy
Nasty me, lazy crazy
20th May 2023 – I’ve only ever been stung by bees one time as I was walking off the paths in the woods at the common near home. I knew almost every inch of the woods, paths, bracken and streams. I didn’t notice these bees though and I don’t know if I did anything to upset them without knowing but I suddenly noticed them buzzing around and then felt two stings on my arms under my shirt which I immediately ripped off. My white school shirt. Why do I remember that detail? Anyway, it wasn’t a pleasant experience and possibly inspired this poem. I’ve since been bitten and stung by a host of other nasties but no more bees or wasps so far.
Hear Me Out – 23rd December 1983
We don’t need your bombs
When we’re living on
Death
Society
Answer
Death is
They have
Murder
Starving
Police
Fighting
Violence
Peace
Breathe
We are
What have we got?
Not a lot
All we ever get
No regret
Brutal beating
Are you eating?
Wrong arm of the law
What is it for?
Will it be war?
Heard it before?
Your final breath
Living on death
It’s Not Who You Know – 21st December 1983
It’s not who you know, it’s what you know
It’s not why you do, it’s what you show
It’s not where you do it, it’s where you go
If anyone says different they’d better lie low
False – 20th December 1983
Reported knowledge retorted friend
I’ve got an A Level in Latin
What job do you wanna do?
I wouldn’t mind being a chef
I laughed
That’s what he learnt
False
19th May 2023 – The best way to dissuade a child from religion is to send them to Catholic school.
True – 19th December 1983
Lies lies lies – I despise
Truth truth truth – I want proof
Lies and truth
Truth and lies
They both cover-up
Cover up my eyes
Property – 16th December 1983
Destroy ownership
Share and share alike
As long as I can have mine
You try to say without spite
Why follow one fashion
When you don’t know what it’s about?
You hear one sheep bleating
So you can raise your shout
Hide your feelings under a shroud
Tell me you agree with what I say
You never wanted to follow a crowd
But it’s what you do every day
18th May 2023 – Wishing for utopia and telling people that they are wrong.
Untouched Tombs – 15th December 1983
My body is turning purple with torture
– Set me free from this tortured womb
– From the carnage of this untouched tomb
My head spins in crazy undiminishing circuits
– Like the blood through my purple veins
– Who can tell what it contains?
Push the red button in my profiled face
– My bulging eyes will turn to grey
– It seems that nothing will take the pain away
The gravestones of my memory are dull and black
– The scented roses are screaming blue
– The dirt in my stomach is screaming too
The uncertain moods of painful emotion
– Make me sick with their tiring surprises
– Cos they hide behind so many disguises
My imagination has been hurtfully disturbed
– Been taken over by a rat with a disease
– The pains are bringing me to my knees
Set me free from this tortured womb
From the carnage of this untouched tomb
The blood fed through my purple veins
Who can tell what it contains?
The scented roses are screaming blue
The dirt in my stomach is screaming too
Emotion makes me sick with tiring surprises
Cos they hide behind so many disguises
The rats are in the battleground of my brains
Picking and clawing at the plate of remains
Destroying my soul in this tortured womb
Destroying my brains in the untouched tomb
Annihilation – 14th December 1983
If we are a new breed
Then we should stick together
We should fight the system
And not fight each other
Annihilation of self
Annihilation annihilation
Annihilation of wealth
Annihilation annihilation
This is the end
And I’ve heard it before
And so have many of you
And many many more
17th May 2023 – By this time punk rock was fracturing into factions and I was frustrated with that.
I – 12th December 1983
I didn’t
I wasn’t
I can’t
I won’t
I never will
I won’t be blamed
I won’t say
I won’t be named
I
I
I
I
I see