Geoff Hattersley
A Terrible Song
was just starting. I switched it off
and went to buy a loaf. I had the ususal
small worries, sleeplessness
and being at the mercy of dentists,
fourteen hundred tons of job
and the chance I might drop dead
before crawling out from under it,
the possibility of reincarnation
as a business man’s fat cigar,
forever puffed on half-smoked in mean lips.
Like someone trying to escape through a porthole
getting their backside stuck, that’s how
I felt, and that’s not all, there was
a fresh bunch of flowers
tied to the bus stop down the street
again, a fresh bunch of flowers
is tied to the bus stop every Sunday.
I don’t know why, I don’t know
if I want to know. I don’t know much
these days, but I do at least know
a terrible song when I hear one.
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