Oh dear, a very angry poem, but one I nevertheless quite liked! reminds me of the one in Leith…
Woolworth’s Demise
No more plastic no more noise
Lament the end of big store close
Where cheap teenagers lost their teeth
to one more glor’ious pick’n’mix thief
(Who learns the trade – for future junkie chic)
Pink tellies filling scum kids’ rooms
Hoodie-rotting cheap perfume
make up plastered on twelve year old graces
Attracts abortion from cratered faces
Smell of goat and unwashed boy
gang shapes and swear-words ahoy
Air of parents smell of gin
Oh what a shape Woolworths was in!
Filling estates with patchwork glee
‘Gorgeous bathrooms at 99p!’
Land-fill destined piles of crap
Fat old men giving kids ‘a slap’
Shouting girls in single vowels
Old women with weakened bowels
Ladybird clothes a saving grace
For parents with alcoholic face
Two years on from twelve-year old pride
(her husband might have well have died)
a child of a child raised ‘the woollies way’
(screaming miserable life away)
Piles cheapened sweeties on her plate
(strawberry sweeties clog up guts)
while Mother welcomes old-school sluts
No warm fuzzies nor cold pricks
Just smell of sugar on cracked-up lips
heart-raced buzz of cheap glucose
mother shouting, wanting booze
pushchair gathr’d round chain store bench
smokes away that schoolgirl stench
Empty carcass of England’s pride
Quickens the empty high-street slide
away from poverty and the scum
(Sky will keep them from the sun)
And teenager dating with made-up pride?
Save up for Starbuck’s? – Now you’ve died!
We don’t want to see you anymore
now interest rates have hit the floor..
We’ll give you more if you give back
Off your knees and on your back!
No more sweeties equals food
No more ‘plastic equals good!’
No more tellies made like toys
No more action men for psychotic boys
No more barbies – ‘we’re ‘aspiring’ girls!
no more make up or pretty curls’
No more cheap spoons or handy tool-kits,
Paradise as economic units.
Jeremy Ireland
11 May 2010 10:18
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