Hopeful Dystopia

Where is your Valerie from the gallery? 

Where is your Francis, Neil & Joan ? 

They’re in horrors shot to pieces on the bed like a pile of clothes 

I have been emptied of tradition in hopeful dystopia 

I heard you had then set out alone for the tomb of the unknown gurrier 

With ten pages neatly pressed and piled 

On which you wrote ten fantastical lies, 

Made a shrine which you inscribed, 

In truth I’d rather him than I 

Blow out your candle it’s four in the afternoon and the world will soon be ending 

Blow out your candle it’s four in the afternoon and the world as you once knew it will be ending soon


 My blue eyed boy.

 Where is your Valerie from the gallery? 

Where is the sunken Lusitania you’ll forever row? 

Back in the hovel, down the rabbit hole 

Further down this time with your fork tailed coat 

And trusted guide by your side 

The heavy air in here it could be lit like fossil fuel 

And though the light swings from its neck 

I could never ever think any less of you 

When was your last decent deed ? 

You are the hollow tune that is whistled from a mouthpiece in a hollow room Blow out your candle it’s four in the afternoon and the world will soon be ending 

Blow out the candle it’s four in the afternoon and the world as you once knew it will be ending soon 

My black eyed boy. 

The early days of courtship are the best 

I miss being on buses late at night with you 

We are scum, unadulterated scum 

Though the butterfly phase has begun 

We are scum, unadulterated scum 

Though the butterfly phase has begun with immediate effect 

Don’t let your coffee go cold. 

Where is your Valerie from the gallery ? 

Where is the fake Francis Bacon triptych you said you owned ?