Matthew Caley
Sirens 1
from The Brixton Soundtrack
It’s a hot
midsummer eve on Coldharbour Lane
as Community Police go arm in arm down ‘the
frontline’.
The Tooth-fairy is singing arias outside Pizza Hut.
The new architecture glistens with Government aid.
Business girls parade
in cocktail bars where each sip costs £3.
An exactly brick-sized exit-wound
air conditions The Body Shop.
In an attempt to hook
the yuppies
Tube beggars slit the eyes of their spaniel pup-
-pies to give them that Bambi-like
look.
Matthew Caley’s debut collection Thirst was published by Slow Dancer in 1999 and nominated for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. These poems were first published by Dog magazine in 1994 and subsequently in a pamphlet
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