Things Going on in London 2004

THINGS GOING ON IN LONDON 2004

“Burst him” calls the Megaman

before the shot rings out “Not so solid a balloon now!”

It is all over in how many loaded 21 seconds?

Off to the Old Bailey with you.

Scooter lives in the real world

You’d better believe it

She’s chasing the yellow-cake all the way

back to the top of the pile.

And what of Sticky Fingers?

Will Astro congo some apt song?

Or the hold up with the pricing gun and

the robber who cried all the way to the station to dob himself in

The last of the red deckers

a sad day for London town

I ask you why why why

if it’s broken fix it, if it’s not...

And what of the Bishop Don

who sees the undoing of the little boys innocent

as moral waywardness and believe god forgives them

till there is no crime, is it enough then to forgive oneself?

And mad boy Adair knows how to handle a girl

allege this allege that.

Flying car Harry and Russy blue cry

“What is the world coming to?”

When the jukebox, the sport screen, the flashing handled coin-machines

throw the strumming soulster out on the street

we protect the bishop and throw the singer into the pit

with the tigers.

Getting more

and more

civilized

everyday

ã2004 Rennie