This month I’ve written some poems which were inspired by AJJ lyrics, who are one of my favourite bands, because their song writing is the perfect blend of absurd, heartwrenching, non-sensical, silly and dark. I hope you like ‘em.
who fucking gives a rats ass Steve,
just write a love song
Sad Songs (Intermission), Knife Man
I don’t know man sometimes I’ll be festering
in the armpit of existential dread thinking
what’s it all for? why the poems?
your writing has got to say something, buddy
you can’t just find a million different ways to
to say love is the shit guys! or I like the way
her lips taste like metallic rose petals
or damn the moon is perfect and gorgeous
but then I remember all the times
I curled up in the corner of a teenage boys room
sticky with sweat on their unswept carpet
listening to them indulgently explain
the neo-avant-garde- textures of their
soundcloud projects and I think
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