I'm not cool enough to be in your band


from the ABC set Spunky doggerel

A man with Kate Moss cheekbones
told me to leave Top Shop
and not come back.
The only time I went to Shoreditch
I got a nosebleed.
In newsagents
fashion magazines fling off the shelves
so they don't have to be touched by me.
The landlord of our local spread his arms out wide
and said "sorry,
you have to be 'this cool'
to drink in here."
So I'm going to do a gram of drum and bass
and stop texting people on their birthdays.

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Comments

HaiAnh | February 18, 2008 - 00:58

Ha! Random tandom but brilliant. You never can tell where you poems are going to end up. Ax

Sooz006 | February 18, 2008 - 15:50

How do you get from Top Shop to nosebleeds in Shoreditch? Completely mad poem ... but I loved it.

blackjack-davey | February 29, 2008 - 12:10

Your rejection by the cunteratti has enabled you to write good poems. Is coolness terminal? Was the landlord playing guitar in an art school band?