ONLY ROCK AND ROLE MODEL

they played black music
darker than anybody
these white English boys
demonized
by the establishment
in trouble with the constabulary

those
guardians of the imperial peace
ridiculous in their choice
of millinery

and here they are
seeking shelter
that goat of
a lion
prancing across
the stage with s striped
plants Gaga

hooked on twelve bar but
soon that skin
was shed
and your tunes stuck
their claws into me

lesson after
brain-twisting lesson

voodoo voices
soaked in ragged truth

needed something mesmeric
to get ms through
years of
strrrtfightimg

only rock
and roll they claim

give me
a break

Published by Damian Garside