Poetry by John Carrington

The City is Dying

The city is dying
Weed choked streets and wind swept road signs
The earls are flying
Fuck off you hereditary bastards
People pissing on your dreams
19 years of endless hoop jumping
A faggot intellectual shot from all sides
Lust and egos riot in the street
This earth created undivided
Rubble strewn mentality
Walls caked in shit
Taxi ranks and dole queues
Fucking Psuedo Christian morality bullshit
The good has gone but the evil remains
Disney masking riots
The stench of minds crying
Crying, crying, dying dying
Is this Babylon, which I see before me
I was trying to find the New Jerusalem
Bullshit Anarchists can’t think
The system swallows us whole
Spits out consumables
And if you stand for nothing
You’ll fall for anything
It’s a culture clash
Daily Mail vs Myspace no compromise
You’ll be dead soon Grandad
So deal with it
No lactose intolerance in Africa
And the sound of endless crying crying crying……

The Western Dream of Paradise

Two up
Two Down
In a Northern Industrial Town
Or a Southern City by the Sea

The Boys Night out
Meets up with the Ladies Night
At the Spoons in town

And later the women make love
And the men fuck
By the bins
Or in a floral bedroom

Whilst she dreams later of Prince Charming
And he compares his latest lay
To the posters on the wall
And that girl in the bus stop last week

And all we do is dream
Of better holidays
Sundrenched and fancy free
Whilst we’re crushed by the neons
On the last bus home

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