Peter O’Toole’s Drinking Stories

In the past when I knew less than I know now, which isn’t much

I slept inside Peter O’Toole’s drinking stories 

I wept on the unmade bed of existential crises, 

Came to believe that all you need to be a writer is a coat 

One arm as long as the other brother 

Time can be a teacher when it suits

Resuscitate your childhood schemes through the archaeology of memory my professional dreamer 

Tip toe towards immortality laughing into the wind 

Onwards now, one boot is more than enough 

 

Oh let truth be known the boy has snapped we’ve never seen nothing like this before 

All the bells have tolled he’s never coming back, cracked, smacked, stoned 

 

Once upon a time my Mother was a lady

An OCD fact grilling machine, that was then and that was that 

Once upon a time my father was a coward,

But I love him for who he is in the present, that was that 

I’m a six week premature ejaculation baby 

But the incubator done me no harm it had its charm, that was that

That was that and so it began the sun came up and shook my hand and young Evanne in holy knowledge supervised the finding of a fix on an unsuspecting stranger's bed 

 

Oh let truth be known the boy has snapped we’ve never seen nothing like this before 

All the bells have tolled he’s never coming back, cracked, smacked, stoned 

 

One boot is more than enough 

One boot is more than enough 

One boot is more than enough