10-18-2011, 09:03 AM
I used to think pretending to like
only bands thought of as cool -
The Clash, Nirvana, Joy Division -
and despising white bread pop
would make me a better person.
When the albums spun their way
through songs of drink and drugs
(I eating a custard cream)
it felt as though coolness had come
to let me suck its golden cock.
Countless failures have proved
listening to Girls Aloud, Kenny G
or Cher has no effect on cleverness,
regardless what the cool kids say.
Life doesn't care if you wear a mohawk.
Play the X-Ray Spex all day,
you still had a wank over Phillip Schofield,
busted in your clean bedsheets
while great men worked to cure cancer.
Men who probably liked The Osmonds.
only bands thought of as cool -
The Clash, Nirvana, Joy Division -
and despising white bread pop
would make me a better person.
When the albums spun their way
through songs of drink and drugs
(I eating a custard cream)
it felt as though coolness had come
to let me suck its golden cock.
Countless failures have proved
listening to Girls Aloud, Kenny G
or Cher has no effect on cleverness,
regardless what the cool kids say.
Life doesn't care if you wear a mohawk.
Play the X-Ray Spex all day,
you still had a wank over Phillip Schofield,
busted in your clean bedsheets
while great men worked to cure cancer.
Men who probably liked The Osmonds.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe