Chris Kinsey
Fags & Hairspray Don't Go
After the tour of the scabs and the skin graft
there’s silence.
we sit still, mulling the rumours.
Tell us what really happened?
‘What really happened?
I was worn-out
visiting mum in hospital
twice a day for three weeks …’
The words chafe,
disintegrate into coughs.
‘Mum’s friend offered to go
so I had a bath and lay on the bed.
Woke up late, hair helluva a mess,
sorted it with hairspray,
went to the toilet, lit a fag —
Never come round for five days.
When I did, tubes up my nose
went right down my throat.
I didn’t realise and yanked them —
Fucking hell, I haven’t been this hoarse
since going to see Bruce Springsteen.’
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