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Bookshop

Kid’s books, cookbooks

Books for Ma

Black books, red books

Socialist star

Books on Huntin’, Shootin’, Fishin’

Books that show you the life you’re missing

Books on Popper, Freud and Marx

Edna O’Brien, Muriel Spark

Kafka, Beckett, Joyce, Donleavy

Books that weigh light

Books that weigh heavy

Books with meaning deep within them

Books for prizes

So that kids can win them

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Cityscape clipart

A man needs to carry his Laser Quest pistol

But then they are not replaceable

Nor are there parts available

The men who venture out at night on the streets of the city

Carry side arms for protection.

For where the lamps are no longer lit

There are others waiting to hit them

On mornings when the first warming of the sun

Crosses the streaked and crumbling malls,

When the stained walls lose their shade,

Sometimes you will see human debris not yet scavenged away,

Sometimes a body stiff and distorted

Individuality dispersed by the mist

Sometimes only a scrap of clothing

That speaks of less than nothing.

A man needs to carry his Laser Quest pistol

But then they are not replaceable

Nor are there parts available

 

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ROCK ‘N’ROLL STAR

A ‘41 not ‘59

Just like Eddie I’m gonna shine

And be a Rock and Roll star

 

Me record on the record machine

And a TV commercial selling blue jeans

Like a Rock and Roll star

 

Buy a little property in the caribbean

Build meself a recording studio

Do all me records on the drum masheeun

And listen to me every night on the radio

 

Me record will be number one

Doing all the interviews on Radio One

Like a Rock and Roll star

 

Doing all the chat shows on the television

Promoting meself in the usual way

Don’t give a bugger about the competition

Musicians don’t worry bout things like that anyway