Wednesday, 22 August 2018

Psycho, live reading from early Collected Poems 2006-2016





Psycho



is a friend of mine, who makes me think
is it even possible to be this pissed in the morning?
Before the pubs are open - before a driving lesson?
Before breakfast we were getting on a bus no questions
asked, and necking vodka - answering only to Psycho’s
liquid mood. The driver knows we’re up to it. Smoking
loudly on the top deck. Rollies. Slyly taking hash pipes
in the back just confirms it. There’s only one of us
on this bus prepared to fight for thin air. And he watches
football in the park as we pass. Cracks another one open,
saying: Christ Shane - Isn’t it too early for that? I laugh.
And the shudder that follows I put down to Lampeter council,
As we take another wrong turning, drinking and being driven
further into no man’s land, without a ticket, or plans to return


in any fit state to go home with.



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