the saddest of the bastards
has the biggest bloody smile
and the worst of all the liars
tells the truth
the geezer with the boner
has just read the Book of Jonah
while I'm struggling to read
the Book of Ruth
all those men without
redeeming features
married to enchanting creatures
must have some dark secret they won't tell
all those women
all those babies
all those rats and all that scabies
must know something they're not telling us as well
in the evening of my youth
I am no nearer to the truth
than anyone my age
and why should it be other?
you can blame the BBC
the USA or DDD
the truth is this:
I never listened to my mother
Little Black Book by Wayne Myers