school disco
you sit there among the insurance salesmen
the assistant manager of dorothy perkins
a vivisectionist with an interest in eyes
roadsweepers dinner-ladies ex-cons
night club singers lots of hairdressers
and other detritus
as they do the small talk
of holidays kids houses house prices
and you think
here's another american import
they should have kept to 'emself
in she walks
of course having tumbled her
there's a sneer
but she always reminded you of joni mitchell
just that bit too perfect
one internal rhyme too many
and she's with some bald bloke
and you can't work out
if it's her money or his who has paid for her tan
but it don't matter -
he can be as rich as croesus
but his laywers ain't gunna
alter the facts
that you stick one on her
rather like whoever
threw the bottle at joni mitchell
on the isle of wight
though at rather closer range
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