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You're right, she's sucking his cock even as we speak.
You're right, you're getting fat, you're done, you've peaked.
You're right, your friends all talk about you when you leave the room.
You're right, everything they've got to say about you is true.
You're right, your toes will curl and your heels will stretch.
You're right, backwards walking round clueless, bumping heads.
You're right, bumbling, toilet to dinner table to desk.
You're right, your seconds are shrinking, how many seconds left?
You're right, spark up the incense and shave your head, but
You're right, every saint, Yogi and Guru still wound up dead.
You're right, chirping “live and let live” while you mind your place.
You're right, there's no medals at the end of the human race.
You're right, better swallow those prayers, miss, nobody's there.
You're right, keep your dreams to yourself, kid, nobody cares.
You're right, a smile's a contract, a friend's a slave.
You're right, a cock is a cudgel, a cunt's a grave.
You're right, the rope's fraying fast and the cliff is slick.
You're high above a beach of smashed femurs and microchips.
You're right, you can empty your soul, still not fill your purse.
You're right, buy a hundred Ferraris, you'll still ride the hearse.
You're right, nothing gets any better, it just gets worse.
You're right, nothing gets any better, it just gets worse.
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The woods are peering into my house.
Mephistopheles checking in on his Faust.
And the distant screams of the birds and bees
Make the maggots to move in my cavities
And the cloud of worms following me round
Lick at the bottom of my shoes as I tread the ground.
Checking for the rash, checking for the lump, checking for the canker.
Waiting for the itch, waiting for the blood, waiting for the cancer.
Breasts and billboards ulcer this gut:
Teeny tiny hands sprouting to hurry me up.
A few years in the colon forgetting my name
To the waiting asshole of a digger-neat grave.
A televisual hex from a silicone witch. (Repeat!)
Another neon brood slithers from a puppy-faced bitch. (Repeat!)
And the portals are widening into the void
But it's less Egon Scheile, a little more Lucian Freud.
The cracks in the roof have made a pact with the trees (Repeat!)
For the next high wind when I'm fast asleep. (Repeat!)
The frayed wires all a-wiggling in delight
In the power shower cover that's not earthed quite right.
Noroviruses bloom on the cashpoint keys. (Repeat!)
The E. coli blossoms in the food I eat. (Repeat!)
And the screws in the shelves looming over my bed
Work loose a little more every time I rest my head.
Ballets in menses?
Poems in shit?
Raptures in urine?
Go ask Job Luxford
If there's a God in the grit.
I don't think so.
Just so you all know:
You're gonna die slow.
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Dance for maya, dance for dreams,
For faked orgasms and hyperreal screams.
Put your palms together for Alzheimer's;
The perfect poetry of Korsakovian slurs.
Dance for decapitations, for needles and spoons,
Chain-smoking grandfathers sat in painted-shut rooms.
Dance for diabetics with the stumps for feet,
The black sunset on a silent street.
Can you feel the wilt of a world atilt?
Your grandparents are teetering on their morphine stilts
And with a little good luck and every best hope
We might last long enough to see the sun explode.
Digging through the landfill on his hands and knees
For a plastic bottle for the new babies
And I'm sure she'll figure out something to please
The hungry men downstairs with the machetes.
Good little puritans born and raised
Making neat little puritans for tidy graves.
So place a ring-o-roses, we all fall down.
All our cuddles turn to huddles as the lights wink out.
Can you hear the wilt of a world atilt?
Your grandchildren are teetering on citalopram stilts
And with everything long snatched, snaffled or sold
You can't work out why the young never looked so old.
Dance for sternums
Flowering wide
Ballerinas
Slumped inside
Take a ticket
Single file
Cremulators
Cracking smiles
Bang the table
Stamp your feet
Scream for seconds
Bawl and weep
Elbows flailing
Squealing teeth
A Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut,
Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut!
McDonald's!
Pack your mouth shut!
Hitch your skirts and start running
'Cos it's already coming
And we're long past fucked.
“When the fridge stops humming and my medicine crusts
We'll still have the Big Society, in God I trust.
And when all the ambulance tyres run flat
I'll still have my Nectar card and my phone contract.”
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