published in Poets In The Heart Of England (Arrival Press)
ISBN 1 85786 476 x / ISBN 1 85786 481 6
may 1996
just for you
 
 
growing up here
in this town
was never hard to do
 
we pissed in rivers
and posed as coppers
then set out baffling you
 
for enjoyment of a weekday
I took the kids
to school
 
and all the mothers
looked at me
like I was the bloody fool
 
while little knowing
that I was special
different, sort of thing
 
my children grew up
in my presence
pity them; not me
 
for I am happy
being me
beyond hope and despair
 
(if ever I’m found out
I’ll kill
myself
I will
I swear)