Rockproof

Cigarettes not coffee spoons

Mete out my existence

King size ennui tips

Five minutes over

Three hundred seconds and no firsts

Inhaling not inspiring

 

Do Tom Perdu

And all his yearnings

For the finest virgin state

Exist in me

A lost foundling

Expiring not living

 

And do I dare

Dance with the crab

Trusting the spin doctors

Ignorant in the knowledge

Th'abhorred shears will not be shunned

Turning not learning

 

Ashes to ashes

Paradigm to paradigm

Fury is a trophy

Not necessarily righteous

Free to choose my fate
Living not dying

 

©  Bill Healey 2001