Water Damage
By london_calling79
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Chased a kid into the road
choose your school by postal code
kids are mad I’m still not home
klinefelter chromosome
saw Dad swinging from a rope
morning brings an endoscope
name your price at petrol pumps
saw my dad in swimming trunks
two I’ve lost now to the social
saw them both leave in slow motion
sir has fucked a year 11
closet hides acute depression
no abortions in the south
she’s a slag by word of mouth
dad’s not talking any more
still fighting in some foreign war
may have said something that’s racist
men online are so persuasive
norse uprooting Yggdrasil
can’t afford the leccy bill
took the baby from its crib
Oscars whoring women’s lib
cyclists are off their heads
what happened to the watershed?
Dad has pushed Mum down the stairs
private school foreign affairs
striker gone to local rivals
elective, did not want vaginal
had to shoot the dog last night
found love via satellite
aching in my eyes is back
teenage fake panic attack
found a lump in my left bollock
give me something alcoholic
sister’s had her tits cut off
lacerated whooping cough
my kid has no friends at all
it’s pushing through my stomach wall
paedos wait round every corner
Ireland’s set for hardest border
RUC provide the gun
set them all free one by one
car’s broke down so I can’t earn
I’m at the point of no return
can’t survive one more stillborn
scatophilic German porn
cliffs of Dover in the sea
Africanized honey bee
baby never fucking sleeps
nappies thrown on rubbish heaps
tried to cover up the marks
whilst Russia poisons all our parks
Carra’s spat at some bloke’s daughter
sodium fluoride in the water
two years and no babies yet
pissing on me makes me wet
Tv’s shit let’s rob a bank
wife walked in on danger wank
second baby gone to SIDS
school has said she’s smacked some kid
cannot spell or read my name
failed to get it up again
benefit’s a mortal sin
forgot to take my Ritalin
deify celebrity
she sucks cocks for fifty p
gun crime in the USA
water bill is due today
Mum and Dad are on the line
demanding that you give them time
five year olds are sitting tests
pithy comeback in septet
trees in Sheffield cut to shreds
Brexit’s lost the NHS
Britain’s double dip recession
please don’t ask another question
haven’t got enough for rent
Russians choose the president
music’s shit since (insert date)
kids are lying to my face
other mothers think I’m shit
prolapse in my lady bits
two weeks late but who’s the dad?
not sure where to go with that
teachers teaching extra lessons
kid’s depressing gay confession
Dad’s fucked me since I was two
you won’t see me if I see you
gums are bleeding in the sink
the DUP fuck everything
people judge me on my skin
whiskey bottle’s gone again
poverty of aspiration
double up on medication
wife is fucking someone else
shouted till she pissed herself
Siri doesn’t get my accent
study hard and pay your taxes
North Korea’s launching rockets
mum is crying in the closet
not my fault in this blame culture
Gaviscon won’t fix this ulcer
priests are fucking boys in church
more cuts in cancer research
Boris Johnson, Donald Trump
a five year old who thinks he’s dumb
Suez Canal, Arab Spring
kids can’t spell a fucking thing
global warming, market crash
mildly racist white backlash
plastic choking, dolphins die
husband forced me, second time
foodbank culture, arms stockpiles
just bring back McCarthy trials
made it two steps from the toilet
why is hygiene so important?
repeal the laws on all gay marriage
we’re all caved in from water damage.
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I'm going to come back and
I'm going to come back and read this again later too, because I think it's one of those poems that will keep on giving. i am very curious about where the lines come from, and how you chose them!
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Spectacular result!
Spectacular result!
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Feel better
now? Maybe not. This is a fine rant. I read it out loud. I did stumble at "cyclists are off their head". I think it's lacking a syllable, (unless you are pronouncing it "cycle-ists", which I suppose it must have been at one time).
Bravissimo!
Ewan
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Great rant, hard to care
Great rant, hard to care about the environment and wider world when you are struggling to survive. But the environment matters and effects everyone's world. Also there are many kinds of poison and sickness. I stumbled on the cyclists line also?
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I just
think it's a matter of regional variation. I would never say "cy-cull-ists", but only because I don't say "Wem-ber-ley" or "Ath-er-lete" either, but I know that many do. Language is alive, if enough people say it, it is acceptable use. The insertion of vowels even has a name, anaptyxis, which I only learned a week ago.
All of which in no way detracts from a very good rant! Congratulations on the POD, well deserved.
Ewan
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I'm from Wem-ber-ley Park! In
I'm from Wem-ber-ley Park! In the old days it was Wemba Lea, the fields of Wemba, the Saxon baron who owned the land. So the footy fans on their way to it are sort of right.
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This is great! The general
This is great! The general scumminess of life and the drip, drip into decay.
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A tour de force and our
A tour de force and our facebook and twitter pick of the day. Do share if you like it too.
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I caught shades of... 'four
I caught shades of... 'four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire' and something about the English army winning the war. Great rant. Could it be put to music?
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There's no issue with
There's no issue with cyclists from here. I've read it every which way and upside down in the bath and there's no stumble or missed notes.
This is something big, this piece. Timing is impeccable, use of that all-seeing narrator feels microscopic. It's full of beating heart and social sickness. Well impressed.
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Usually I like cheerful stuff
Usually I like cheerful stuff but I'm gonna give this a like because it's good! Can hear it read out loud or as a Rap track. I looked up Klinefelter, don't envy anyone who has it.
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