EMMA-JANE ARKADY AFTER EIGHT
On her way back from the library
exchanging Mill’s books -
& what a boon for the twee librarian with a stamper -
she had Bennie and Bach on the walkman:
Singet dem Herrn, as down the streets, ranging
platoons of the scum of the place
scrawled with a tile cutter
blagged from the B and the Q
City Suck Cock on the plate
glass of the Medical Centre’s face;
scored.
Jed kicked in the Scottie,
dog shit splattered his trainers
and he wheeled and spat
abusive in short words at Minnie.
She turned up the volume, sucked
chocolate covered mints and stared
straight-wise into a closed-up Boots.
No good,
You: fucker!
the dog is in fits from its kicking
the chemist has hidden
behind his rows of Mum
which he keeps
stocked up and in front in case as Jed
turned and lashed out with his fists
as he gets kicks, this fixing
of shafting the shits out of women.
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