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When I get old, I will queue jump,
And stab people’s behinds with my brolly,
I’ll go to the shops at the busiest times,
And I’ll barge everyone with my trolley!
In cafés I’ll suck my food loudly,
Then complain that the food is too hot.
When re-served I’ll say it’s too cold,
And it tastes like a heap of old snot!
In the library I’ll cough really loudly,
At least every second or two.
I’ll dog-ear the books I get out,
And stick all the end pages with glue!
I’ll get on the buses quite early
And abuse the school kids with glee.
Then I’ll stick gum on the bus seats,
And profusely deny it was me.
I’ll donate horror books to my dentist
To leave in the waiting room,
To gain a weird satisfaction
Of increasing those poor patients’ gloom.
I’ll remove my teeth for my grand kids
Scaring them till they weep.
And sing them a lullaby croakily till
They beg ‘Stop, please let us sleep!’
I’ll stand on a corner on Sundays
And ‘moon’ to all cars passing by
And if anyone gives out an ‘offer’
I’ll pretend that I’m really too shy.
I’m twenty now, so a whole life ahead,
I’ll have to wait for a bit…
But one day I’ll achieve my ambition,
And be a real Stroppy Old Git!
And stab people’s behinds with my brolly,
I’ll go to the shops at the busiest times,
And I’ll barge everyone with my trolley!
In cafés I’ll suck my food loudly,
Then complain that the food is too hot.
When re-served I’ll say it’s too cold,
And it tastes like a heap of old snot!
In the library I’ll cough really loudly,
At least every second or two.
I’ll dog-ear the books I get out,
And stick all the end pages with glue!
I’ll get on the buses quite early
And abuse the school kids with glee.
Then I’ll stick gum on the bus seats,
And profusely deny it was me.
I’ll donate horror books to my dentist
To leave in the waiting room,
To gain a weird satisfaction
Of increasing those poor patients’ gloom.
I’ll remove my teeth for my grand kids
Scaring them till they weep.
And sing them a lullaby croakily till
They beg ‘Stop, please let us sleep!’
I’ll stand on a corner on Sundays
And ‘moon’ to all cars passing by
And if anyone gives out an ‘offer’
I’ll pretend that I’m really too shy.
I’m twenty now, so a whole life ahead,
I’ll have to wait for a bit…
But one day I’ll achieve my ambition,
And be a real Stroppy Old Git!
Literature
Taking Attendance
I’m a trainee teacher in an “underprivileged” area, and every Friday, I go to sit in a refurbished conference room just off of the campus of the school, walled in by hedges and new plaster, with fascia windows that point skyward so we can let in the sunlight but not see the suburbs surrounding the building. The children we teach all live within two miles; so do the majority of the city’s drug dealers, bookmakers offices and launderettes.
But our view is Bright Blue, not Broken Britain.
Every Friday we sit in this room, and we talk about ‘things affecting kids nowadays’. It’s usually from an angle of
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how to raise a broken kid
i.
i was born in the eye of a raging hurricane
in the night where all the rivers
turned the water into tears---
there was pain and there was rain
and muffled whispers to my ears
from that day i recognize
the face and color
of my fears
ii.
let them claim me
let them drain me
till my last droplet of hope
let them crucify me hollow
through a kid's kaleidoscope
let them dress me with their sins
and their outdated type of skins
let them paint me with their colors
and pretend i didn't see
iii.
in the corner of the room
broken bones on broken bed
paint is dripping down the walls—
fading colors under red
i can't breathe and i can't
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Blood Mother
I love you in your inexistence
rabbit’s ear
baby’s breath
you are dust
but you are
mine.
Misadventures and
dew drop mornings
small curls
large eyes
my bones cannot knit your future.
Sunsets and moonbeams
sleep burdens our eyes
your soft lips sigh
there is a better world for you
than this.
-D.E.M
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Hahaha actually made me laugh