Roy Orbison

Oh black angel
fly to heaven
take us with you
love forever
no more pain
no more crying
no more heartbreak
no more dying
its over,
sweet black angel.

(pub. Snakeskin USA)

Roy Rogers

Farewell then Roy Rogers
King of the Cowbores
who caught all the outlaws
though I thought Trigger
showed more vigour.

(published 'Independent' 1998)

Too Frank

Ashes to
Ass'ole

Sicily to
Sodom

Suits of
Paternity

Here to
Eternity

Poker of
Nancy

Rummy with
Ronnie

Rats in
Cement boots

Ava Maria,
(sorry) Gardner

Bloody Hell,
I'll start again.

Lord Goodman

Cheerio
Lord Goodman
Mr Fixit
for Harold
and Ted
now you're
dead.

Fix that.

When in Rome
Great Fellini,
welcome to
the Eternal
Dolce Vita.
No popes
or vices here.
What will
you do?

Exterminated but not forgotten

Tatty bye Jon Pertwee
Comedy Actor

Shove a pole up
his backside

and stick him
in a field

I'm sure that's
what the Daleks

would have wanted.

Baa Baa Black Clone
Have you any wool?

No Sir, No Way, No Twat No Prat
with a Black Belt in Karaoke,
Jerking yer Gherkin, otherwise Shirking
in "The Shithouse& Firkin".
Giro Tolerant, Blow Job seeking
Old Labour leftover Liberal
Flower Child gone to fucking seed.

Now Now

No Bags full, so that means none for
those Blown-up Dollyfucking, science
sucking Media puffing Ecstatic
Paediaphallic "DOES LITTLE
BO PEEP LIKE A BIT OF
MUTTON DAGGER" headline
shining Damian Hearse fucking
FormaldeJekyll & Hyde Saatchi
Beast Brown Nosing Ratpackers

I say there

And None for those sheepshagging
Supernerd Kilt Lifting
genetically - challenged Tartan
enamoured, Redcoat hammered
Scotch Egghead addled
scrapie munching, sporran scratching
Gravy Trainspotting
Caber Tossers who
live up their middle-class lanes
and think they’re fucking it.

Ok. That’s enough Lamb,Chop

"Hello is that the Roslin Institute
Edinburgh

We have a problem."

Bad Vibrations

farewell then
Carl Wilson

surfing off
to paradise

give us
a wave.

bloody hell

he’s fell
off.

Working Class Hero

Our Father who
Art in heaven

Your house has
many mansions.

Stick Enoch
in one with
a black landlord

Amen.

(published Morning Star classifieds 1998)

Golden Bird
Clean River Phoenix
gobbled cold turkey.
Don't rise from the teardrops
and strangle the goose.

The Fishes Lament

Farewell
Cousteau

Friend
of the Sea

You've had
your chips

And so
have we.

(published Nottingham Drinker 1997)

Glastonbury Obit
'The Last Ride of the White Swan'

An old white swan came crying
out the leaden clouds.

It circled poisoned Avalon
and dropped its master's shroud.

Mr Zappa

They say Necessity
is the Mother of Invention
but I always
thought it was Frank.

(published Anarchist Angel 1996)

Hendrix

Phallic Funk
Electric sonnet
Shot the spunk
and sucked his vomit.

(pub. Fleshmouth)