Pots & Pans and the Last Romantics

By Michael Valentine

Sat, 28 Mar 2015
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Pots & Pans and The Last Romantics
 
The poetic acid raindrops kicked the arse of the last romantics
My hands, bloody, in bursts of abuse, swirling in powder parcel daydreams, emphatic
Where the tears on the glass in the kitchen sink
Showed the face of the resurrector on the aniseed rotten brink
It’s only pots and pans and the last romantics
 
With a flask of weak tea, I fell for another Honeyballer this morning
And shot 500 vignettes of the river running, dirty, through the town we were born in
I watched the cygnets rolling gently as rocks and rain poured down
Until Mother Swan Superior swooped with venom, property of the Crown
It’s only pots and pans and Honeyballers in the morning
 
Corner-cut, medium weight, raspberry flavour papers
Pipe-bombs clash with pipe-dreams and give them a right pasting
Absent friends, whom I toast, I know you’re still brassed off
Absent friends, I wish you were here even if you don’t
Have my splatter patterns, my death discs and Karma Sutra books
Take my rifle, topple my gravestone and unlace my cement stained work-boots
But a stone through your window or a red rose at your front door
In the end, what can I say?
They mean the same thing, I hope you know
 
Bedways is rightways but my mind is on a sinkful of dirty dishes
La feé vérde dims the stars at night and I make three diamond dust wishes
On the tarmac the twilight twirls and illuminates my cracked disco
It matters little, in the moonlight, that your cherry cider kisses taste fickle
It’s only pots and pans and diamond dust wishes
Certificate 12
Poem
White Lines and Black Rhymes
Surreal
Romance
Miscellaneous
Autobiography

Comments

Submitted by torscot on

I liked this. Lots in it I thought.

Surprised no comments from anyone?

"...I fell for another Honeyballer this morning..."    I have a thing for women playing footie

torscot

Submitted by Michael Valentine on

Thanks very much. Ach well, there's so much upload on the site - you can't expect everything to get loads of attention. Really appreciate you reading & commenting though. I wasn't sure if anyone would know the reference of 'Honeyballers'. I just seen a documentary on BBC Alba with that title about female footballers and thought it was a brilliant word.

Michael.