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Thursday, 12 March 2015

One Mistake (Version 1)

(NB. This piece is from 1997 this time and is clearly influenced from the work of the punk poet, Joolz. Not sure if I agree with all of this but it's a change of gears certainly and does reflect some of my more harsher realism pieces that followed over the years. According to the title this is Version One but alas I have no records of a Version 2)


But nobody asked her
Nobody asked 
What she thought,
Nobody bothered
To tell what she should do
Nobody bothered
After that night
Nobody cared
After she had made
The biggest mistake
Of her life
A quick bit on the side
A stab in the dark
And then
Then that was it
That was it
Her whole life had changed
Now lumbered
With number two
She would have to learn
To fend for two
No more clubbing
No more constant partying
To god knows what hours of the morning
No more constant flirting
With any given lad of her given choice
The queen of the ball
Was now a single mum
Struggling to survive
On fuck all money
And fuck all hope.

It all changed.
It all happened
When for a few moments pleasure
(with some drunken
pissed up lad)
who probably wouldn’t
even remember her name
let alone her face
in the following mornings
events
she decided to shag some blind stranger
in some dark, remote corner
if only she’d listened

listened to her mates
who pleased with her
not to go
listened to her mates
who pleased with her
not to go.

Listened to her body
Who pleased for protection
Listened to her mum
Who told her once
Always plan your every move
Never jump in head first
But she didn’t listen
And threw it all away

Now look at her
She’s up all night
If not for the baby
Drinking
Drinking anything she can get her hands on
Be it whiskey
Vodka
Brandy
You name it, she drinks it
And she cries
Her whole life’s a wreck
And all because of that night

All because of that one mistake. 


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