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IQ

That face looks primate The brow 'suggestive of low IQ' Malevolence, and sneering Leather-elbowed emptiness Is of more use to the social organism Use...

Democracy II

With proddy work ethic mis'rabl'y bored Solve 'social problems' by fire and the sword Get sexy black uniforms by the mile And seaside villas in D'...

Catharsis

Catharsis I realised the whys When t'editor got shirty It's 'cos me poem rhymes Now I feel dirty Or perhaps t'is 'cos I swore He would not let me...

Lottery Win

Villa in Mallorca, Flat in Bristol Seventeenth Century Duellists Pistol Genuine Alaskan Bearskin Rug Dinner with Beckham, gave me a Hug Porker...

Fine Day Out

Day Out Listen wincing to the cackling hags Hunch your shoulders, breathe the fags Amble 'round the back street hiding Peruse the porn down the...

Killing Joke

Hate Poem Lydon said 'anger is an energy' Burton: 'hate more vital than love' In two minds I seek out enemies (you know who) Try to look Securitate,...

Cumulative Vexation

Angry The computer lost my essay On Hume I threw the bastard Across the room The clock is ticking It never ceases I'll smash the fucker Into pieces...

Under The Sphinx

The Sphinx Act I: The Remains of the Dead (Before the Rock Drill) Pottery Urn Zatopec, Mexico 650 Inscribed bone (your bones?) Fine, smooth black...

Queue For Layton Station

Layton Station Lead me by the forearm, The lone railway worker Blissful matrimony 'in the mix' With the rhythm of work Me, slightly (well, a lot)...

Four Times Twenty Lines

Eighty Lines Steeled to write A poem of eighty lines In reverence to The Wasteland, Cantos Or something Auden did So get set To squeeze words out...

My Love

Farah

Ver Essfeet

The Aesthete I There were two mates One posh and one proley One workaday one doley One lean and one rolly Invented a football league With teams like...

Sixth Sense

Democracy VI You have to have I think An oblique black and white photo Look 'arty' with eyes invisible Anything simple or childish 'Normal' or...

X to the Flat Horizontal

Ode to the Flat, horizontal line No tree to molest Visions, evocation, memories Attest to and infest The mind Ode to the one eighty degree expanse,...

Ode to the Northamptonshire Serb

Northamptonshire Serb At Kizzer Charles knelt and prayed Up Grand Union barges pronounce Their failure To gain slipstream to ruddy ducks Lawrence...

Yo to Dr Jack Kervorkian!

Doctor Death I can't decide to change my job I can't borrow ten bob I can't try to save my marriage I can't avoid the modern barrage I can't call my...

Zion in Darkness

Darkness In Zion Peppermint head said 'What do they all have in common? Let's call him Mickey not Michael And doctor the snap accordingly Roma (but...

Norman Stone

He said 'cogito ergo sum' Then 'Dulce Et Decorum Est' And also that 'A classical education is best' Beware then, if you lack Good genes, money, or...

Jan Svankmajer

When the Thatch took power Geoff composed a ditty After a French bloke About an essence or blob Who also wanted it Not for 'justice' or 'equality'...

White Male 18-55

White Male, 18-55 I was told to chase education almighty To range handsomely and conquer Blighty I was told that I had all this power But I need...

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