the people's poet!
neil

oh neil!
neil!
orange peel!

neil

what are you doing, neil?
to make a meal, neil?
from totalitarian vegetables.
how much does it cost, neil. . .?

house

house, house, house
oh, you are made of stone
but you are not alone-
-ly house!

pollution

pollution
all around
sometimes up
sometimes down
but always around
pollution, are you coming to my town?
or am i coming to yours?
we're on different buses, pollution
but we're both using petrol
free form

marrow
meringue
boomerang
long, blue boomerang. . .

the people's poet

what do you think you're doing, pig?
do you really give a fig, pig?
and what's your favourite sort of gig, pig?
barry manilow
or the black and white minstrel show?


rick's teen anguish poem

oh god
why
am i so much more sensitive than everybody else?
why
do i feel things so much more acutely than them,
and understand so much more
i bet im the first person who's ever felt as rotten as this
could it be
that im going to grow up
to be a great poet and thinker, and all those other
wankers in my
class are going to have to work in factories or go
on the dole?
yes, i think it could.
cliff

oh, cliff
sometimes it must be difficult not to feel as if
you really are a cliff
when fascists keep trying to push you over it
are they lemmings?
or are you cliff?
or
are you, cliff
'im totally lost!
take me back to
the beginning!!
'i think im going to be sick.'