Amy Amy Amy

Gold cherry

By london_calling79

Mon, 03 Aug 2015
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18 comments
 

Sailor-tat marionette
a fag-end fishwife with your filthy laugh
and oiled piston hips, a hot, wet Minnie Mouse.
Gutter mouth.
 

Anachronism,
getting out of your head and into your body,
Egyptian kohl Jewish princess, lioness.
Faithful as water. Cheating girl power.

 
I see you making tea amongst the journalists,
a smudge in the type,
your fingerprint on the lens.
We all saw a darkness at the edge of things,
a little Hyde in the Jekyll,
but for that we loved you all the more
and fed it.
 
Filterless and blunt
as nicotine.
Trumpet mouth and chocolate soul,
everyone and no-one's mate,
you’d have put the vodka in the tribute pile
on heaps of others' pain.
Stubborn.

 
But without it.
Without the darkness.
Without the black keys, bum notes and
tottering tattered beehive,
throwing shoes at adoration
cussing us, a bunch of ‘monkey cunts’,
without the pane of celebrity,
the mirrors of circumstance,
without it – nothing

like you wanted?

We should have left you to atrophy
there, denying cheder,
choking on cellophane,
cigarettes and vinyl.

We felt we knew you
and weren't there for you
at the end.

Certificate 18
Poem
New Set
Biography

Comments

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

stunning. That is all

 

Submitted by london_calling79 on

Grateful! That is I.

 

Submitted by Canonette on

I so wanted to take care of Amy. This is really beautiful in a raw and dirty way.

 

Submitted by london_calling79 on

I think that raw dirtiness drew a lot of people to her. The impression I get is that many wanted to mother her but she would have none of it.

 

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Wonderful! You can't save alcoholics, that I've learned, but she was/is a true poet, her whole an instrument of communication, love her. Love your poem.

Submitted by london_calling79 on

Thanks Phillip! She's such a devisive figure but still so missed and mourned.

 

Submitted by VeraClark on

This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day!

Get a great reading recommendation every day.

 

Submitted by london_calling79 on

Thank you so much for the pick! Whoever chose the picture found a cracker.

 

Submitted by jolono on

Hard to read. But so accurate...

 

Submitted by london_calling79 on

Cheers Joe! Didn't want to do her an injustice but her imperfections were such a part of her draw.

 

Submitted by hudsonmoon on

You've captured her well, Lc. Glad it was pick of the day. 

Rich

 

Submitted by london_calling79 on

Thanks for dropping by Rich. Hope I caught some of the enigma.

 

Submitted by blighters rock on

she knew what she was getting into and embraced it, and for that I applaud her. Too many fly by nights spoil the broth but she is/was the essence of everything normal folk will never experience; to be one without the world. Such a sickl sweet spit of a poem and totally in awe of your youthful vibrancy regards probably the only proper punk star we've seen in the last 20 years. I don't read much at the mo but if this isn't potw it'll take a big push from elsewhere. Vitriolic, confused (in the best possible sense) and full of lively contradiction.

 

Submitted by london_calling79 on

Such high praise. Thanks blighters! 

 

Submitted by scratch on

I really like this poem.

 

Submitted by london_calling79 on

Cheers scratch. Makes it easier when the subject matter is so rich and fascinating.

 

Submitted by love_writing on

Catching up on posts after holiday and this is simply stunning! Loved Amy Winehouse, and the lines 'Trumpet mouth and chocolate soul/  everyone and no-one's mate' made me well up. I'll go back to...black. Well done on potd :)

love_writing

Submitted by london_calling79 on

Cheers lw! Hope your holiday was good. This girl was so talented.