Mischief Yesterdays

I’m the type people call for reference

Wise beyond so my name is reverenced

Often mentioned, next dimension, attention demanded like you got remanded detention

Declension of verbs, a third of mine are heard and all of them are future lured

Your verbs are like left turns that bring you home every time, all tense and all past tense

Inured to the words of nerds like you, barnyard feed.


Got 20 marlboros, half of them donated for joint rolling

Bong like detonated a mind bomb, another voice stole in

Garda patrolling smelled green petroleum, collars just one

The rest scarper, run through jungle, grunt and struggle out to Scarborough Fair

Thyme enough at last, led that lad around a windlass

Top of the class at the siren dash, even when I’m mashed

Back to Windy Arbour

Smash through the thicket like he asked and I’d no ticket, Ballaly barber

We pass it quickly, ding the leap and we’re gone. 


More plants than the Airfield farmers

More paths than the pathfinders, a Gard could not divine where I shrine my green vines

It takes a green mind

Bollocks in the bush but raised right, give up my seat

To the needy, we’re only going three, yeet

Off it and ding dinger again, walking past the school fence

Remembering all the L’s and F’s

If I had two pence for every person who said I’d got no sense, I’d since have spent it

On pick n’ mix, we round the bend and cross the green the stream

Flows through, Costcutter cans of Strongbow my wall piss a strong flow

Give anything a go as long as I’ll be good at it

Hoods up like the rain’s lashing, looming in alleys like a crack addict

Craic in my diction, my fiction an admix of truth or fiction, affixing

My greatness to an image I created for the faithless

To drape wishes on, I smile like a Smilodon all tooth 

I’m at Troy as a Myrmidon in my mind’s eye, warrior, forsooth.


Dog off the leash unleashing the beast

Law’s lease on me loose because I’m greased

Increased my worth, wroth to do work, never lift a finger 

I’m heading home for chipper dinner

Down the block I can smell the vinegar

I’m a white swan now but came up as a minger

End of a chicken zinger left in the box for the foxes

My chops are stuffed, I’ve had enough, upstairs in me boxers

Boxing the head off problems in the mirror, box

I keep my weed in needs sealant to keep the stench pinned

Get three skins but instead do a thin pinner, like a vogue in a dilettante’s finger

Scent lingers long after until I spray Lynx everywhere, King 

Of Queens repeats beam out on Paramount TV

Afterwards Trading Places is on again

Wish I could trade places, roll again

To make me faceless, desire only placelessness

Smoked so much even someone who got my platelets donated

Would be liable to become a chronic-huffing satanist

Chain smoking again lately

Won’t be found until long after, Layne Staley

Nothing stately in going stale

Most went stateside and I stayed in the Pale.

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