Friday, June 25, 2010

During my six months single in 2000, I managed to find myself in a nightclub in Swindon, sober.

Twins


Angelica, she said, what’s yours?

her sister

was gorgeous

with a skirt split that

arrowed the way

to the not yet promised land


they tailed me around the churning club

sucking my

money from jangling pockets

like students scraping

the crumb spotted bottom

of a margarine tub


criss, cross, criss, cross, criss,

back and forth

give us a fag

get us a drink

future sex paid by instalments


when the cash would spread

no further

they were gone and I was toast


weaving home alone

down vomitburst pavements

this single life

I can’t believe it’s not better

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