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22.3.16

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history is a snivelling beast in a cheap tweed suit

failure reflected in its horn-rimmed glasses

scratching and scrawling the same shit on the blackboard

 

i am a truant

you are a truant

 

when we bother to show up

we sit and fiddle with our cocks

pass notes about absent friends

pickle ourselves with false ideals

weld and solder and piss away our blood

take snapshots of dying children

with ever smaller lenses

we learn to pass exams

we learn to pass exams

we learn

to pass

exams

 

the sun set last night

in a shower of green and red

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Stu Buck

Thu 24th Mar 2016 10:54

thanks martin. i was listening to a wonderful song called 'the past is a grotesque animal' and altered the title to 'history is a snivelling beast' which i liked. then pink floyd came on and it just went from there...

i dont know about the nights for w.o.l and nor, strangely, can i find them online.

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Martin Elder

Wed 23rd Mar 2016 17:18

I was trying to decide why I liked this other than the fact it is your usual excellent use of words and I think it is in part the description of the history teacher at the beginning as being a bit of a relic rounded off nicely with the sunset.
Nice one Stu.
Which nights are the Shrewsbury WOL?

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