Get up, Get on up
6 or 7 pints earlier
Hung over on the 67
Am I still dreaming?
Cars and people drift by
My belly bubbles a
dirty warmth onto my
face and behind my eyes.
My eyes must be very red.
'Take on the Daddy Burger'
'London Beer Gas, Calor' drives by. Oh dear.
And a nice shiny peugeot and a ship.
Is it worse though?
Driving the long bus down to the city.
Is it Thatcher's dream I'm living in?
It's certainly not the Bay of Biscay.
Is it a low?
I want to go up the Kingsland Road,
And home again.
Revenue protection?!
They sound like a civil servant's mafia.
15 people in fluorescent jackets
+ 3 Rozzers.
The shits.
They won't get me this time, I'm on the 67
They look freezing.
It's not their fault someone wanted bent Mercedes buses
That are completely rubbish.
Someone typing a text message
AND cycling at the same time.
Genius or madwoman?
Please Drive By Carefully in our Village
That's way better than the Daddy Burger advert.
The Daddy Burger is offensive, worthless and artless.
Probably done by some kids on drugs - cocaine.
Banksy, au contraire, and other graffiti people.
What a lovely use of space.
I wish I had a penny for every mobile I saw on this journey.
I still wouldn't have enough for a loaf.
Fucking inflation.
The top of the guerkin
pops its head over the
concrete cargo and stands,
Erect behind the puffs
of smoke from the city.
Foster has now done:
cock
bollock
useless shit
Nearly there
I need a can of fizzy pop,
I'll get it from the shop near the
Euro Free Zone warehouse.
p.s. Library my arse. Where are the books in that photo. And who the hell wants to walk up a spiral staircase.
Those who think that library looks pretty, haven't used it.
They installed a busy library with 1 or 2 male toilet cubicles per floor.
The computer area resembles a sweat shop.
Princess Anne opened it.
It gives static shocks to everybody who touches the bannister.
You need to have one leg shortened to walk on the spiral staircase without looking like a tosser.
It's apparently rubbish to move around if you're in a wheelchair, even though you can access every floor.
I worry that one day, someone might get crushed by the government periodicals.
It is truly a library from hell, designed by people who don't use it.
One day, let's draw a chalk outline of a human body at the bottom of the spiral.
Hung over on the 67
Am I still dreaming?
Cars and people drift by
My belly bubbles a
dirty warmth onto my
face and behind my eyes.
My eyes must be very red.
'Take on the Daddy Burger'
'London Beer Gas, Calor' drives by. Oh dear.
And a nice shiny peugeot and a ship.
Is it worse though?
Driving the long bus down to the city.
Is it Thatcher's dream I'm living in?
It's certainly not the Bay of Biscay.
Is it a low?
I want to go up the Kingsland Road,
And home again.
Revenue protection?!
They sound like a civil servant's mafia.
15 people in fluorescent jackets
+ 3 Rozzers.
The shits.
They won't get me this time, I'm on the 67
They look freezing.
It's not their fault someone wanted bent Mercedes buses
That are completely rubbish.
Someone typing a text message
AND cycling at the same time.
Genius or madwoman?
Please Drive By Carefully in our Village
That's way better than the Daddy Burger advert.
The Daddy Burger is offensive, worthless and artless.
Probably done by some kids on drugs - cocaine.
Banksy, au contraire, and other graffiti people.
What a lovely use of space.
I wish I had a penny for every mobile I saw on this journey.
I still wouldn't have enough for a loaf.
Fucking inflation.
The top of the guerkin
pops its head over the
concrete cargo and stands,
Erect behind the puffs
of smoke from the city.
Foster has now done:
cock
bollock
useless shit
Nearly there
I need a can of fizzy pop,
I'll get it from the shop near the
Euro Free Zone warehouse.
p.s. Library my arse. Where are the books in that photo. And who the hell wants to walk up a spiral staircase.
Those who think that library looks pretty, haven't used it.
They installed a busy library with 1 or 2 male toilet cubicles per floor.
The computer area resembles a sweat shop.
Princess Anne opened it.
It gives static shocks to everybody who touches the bannister.
You need to have one leg shortened to walk on the spiral staircase without looking like a tosser.
It's apparently rubbish to move around if you're in a wheelchair, even though you can access every floor.
I worry that one day, someone might get crushed by the government periodicals.
It is truly a library from hell, designed by people who don't use it.
One day, let's draw a chalk outline of a human body at the bottom of the spiral.
posted by Steve Harmison | 1:47 AM
9 Comments:
Oh yeah, and the library had water fountains installed, but no outlet for the water. So it meant they can never install fountains without lots of work.
Therefore, one must pay 80p for a bottle of water when everything else shuts in the evening.
Glad to be out of it.
anyone able to use the term 'rozzers' alongside a (fairly) obscure blur reference (bay of biscay/this is a low - nice) is a poet of laureate-esque standing in my book. Send me an e-mail fun boy, what you up to? I have this week off!
your posts and their subjects particularly the bus and the library building remind me of 'Santa-Fe' by Bob Dylan
She's proud, but she needs to roam,
She's gonna write herself a roadside poem,
About Santa-Fe.
Since I'm never gonna cease to roam,
I'm never, ever far from home,
But I'll build a geodesic dome
And sail away.
(What are you doing in the library, anyway?) The electric shocks are getting worse. The whole place is a brazen attempt to con more cash out of overseas students who see the photographs in the glossy brochure and don't realise the full useless horror of the place until they've arrived and coughed up £14,000. Good old Norman Foster.
That chalk outline idea is brilliant - when are you planning on doing it?
Wow. I've never had so much flattery before. Many thanks mum.
And before you go spreading rumours that I was in the library, I haven't been back for a long time. I just got reminded by the grrrr...kin.
Errmm... Anytime's good for me for faking a death. Yasmin's got some of Banksy's 'Polite Line, Please do not get cross' tape. It makes stuff look like a police scene. I would recommend doing it during the peak of exam season, or while the Beaver's still going. Or whenever some dignatories are being shown round. I've even seen the library used on BBC 4 programmes.
I don't fancy being an outside agitator though. Get Dave to do it.
I hadn't seen the shard of glass til looking on google now.
I don't like it. For some time I've hated the glass building craze, it just smacks of over-confidence in humanity. While walking round Liverpool Street, I looked about and couldn't help but thinking that those in glass houses, shouldn't through stones. Being a capital of a country that throws stones everywhere, it's an image that I don't appreciate. Or understand why people want to do it.
The shard of glass has no real beauty in my opinion. And if Prescott allows that, why doesn't he allow the stadium in Falmer.
I do like Liebskind's Imperial War Museum, Manchester, and quite a few things he's done- the London Met Building looks cool. It's worth reading his thinking behind the Imperial War Museum building
On a similar vein, although she is not an architect and I cannot find a decent link, I do like Rachel Whiteread and her holocaust monument in Vienna. Another great big work about war, which makes sense
I just submitted this poem to Transport For London through the feedback form on their site.
I didn't say anything, just sent the poem and requested a reply
The shits.
They won't get me this time, I'm on the 67
Did I mean that ambiguously cos I was hung-over? Hmmm...
I've just realised that you seem to be confessing that your bollocks look like City Hall. Ugh.
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