Carol Batton - Manchester Poet
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1.
I looked up pop music
on the Internet and got 50 hits.
2.
Waking. No one can afford it anymore.
3.
Brown hair, brown eyes...
I might be plain,
But I match.
4.
Homophobia can cure,
Arthritis and Depression
Or is it Homeopathy,
I should mention?
5.
Nothing can change 'cept me,
The world's injustice remains,
But I can be kind.
6. Fear.
I've a fear of medication,
My fear becomes consternation.
They may medicate my consternation!
It was only fear of medication.
7.
2038AD.
"Coffee."
"Is that with water?"
"Yes."
"That'll be 239 pounds please."
8. Mostly.
Maybe I'm mad,
as the psychiatrist says.
My friends say O.K.
I'm as sane as can be,
But most of my friends,
Are mad,
like me.
9. Free legal trip.
My friend Lucy is dizzy,
light headed and spaced out
I said "Lucy, what have you taken?"
"My glasses off."
10.
It's amazing how unsuicidal
one suddenly becomes,
when a psychopath enters.
11. Person-centred counselling.
Feeling lovey-dovey,
And nodding one's head,
Repeating what one has said.
You said,
"Repeating what one has said".
Such counselling,
I'd rather be dead.
12.
The affect of a plectrum upon a kazoo,
Is limited as there is nowt it can do.
Intro | 1992 | 1995 | August 98
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