The lyrics for this song appear as a poem in the current issue of Snakeskin.
For Ben Okri’s 60th
14 Thursday Mar 2019
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in14 Thursday Mar 2019
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inThe lyrics for this song appear as a poem in the current issue of Snakeskin.
05 Saturday Dec 2015
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inThis poem, just published in Snakeskin #224, i.e. the 20th anniversary issue, is to be the very first one in future versions of my collection, From Moonrise till Dawn.
27 Thursday Oct 2011
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The Big Smoke
We took a flat in central Hammersmith –
students both, but working several nights
at some hotel – and wooed the modern myth
of being where it’s at. We scorned the sights
we never saw. The day you said you’d scored,
I thought you meant a girl, not Mary Jane,
yet I too fell under her spell. We bored
of books and in our loneliness and pain
mistook the kindness of a nurse that smiled
for promises of love, too blind to see
the ‘girl’ you’d found was no more than a child
that stroked the ego till it proved to be
collapsible – a folding carry-cot
she jubilantly folded, then forgot.