Trystan
05-19-2008, 07:44 PM
This is incomplete and pretty disorganized as I pasted it here from Word. But to hell with it . . . (Note: "Big Smoke" is a word used for London - it derives from when the city had a lot of smog).
London
The smokeless haze of Big Smoke – it scared the **** out of me, with its
hurly-burly scary streets frequented by the rich and the poor and the black and the white and the yellow all similarly cynical
and rude on the tube.
It’s always in the news;
the shootings and the politics,
and the football teams.
Football fans smoke on terraces, those seas of songs and profanities, and know as much about their team
as the Monument yuppies know of their monies.
Outside the Palace the usual throngs of American tourists gape at monuments of a Britain that isn’t and wasn't and never will be.
Something that they’ll never see – the countless Victorian and Edwardian and War-time and post-war-time and all-time suicides – corpses all rotted or starting to rot in the dirty brown-black rum waters of the Themes into which they jumped with hearts of despair,
in the city that just doesn’t care.
London
The smokeless haze of Big Smoke – it scared the **** out of me, with its
hurly-burly scary streets frequented by the rich and the poor and the black and the white and the yellow all similarly cynical
and rude on the tube.
It’s always in the news;
the shootings and the politics,
and the football teams.
Football fans smoke on terraces, those seas of songs and profanities, and know as much about their team
as the Monument yuppies know of their monies.
Outside the Palace the usual throngs of American tourists gape at monuments of a Britain that isn’t and wasn't and never will be.
Something that they’ll never see – the countless Victorian and Edwardian and War-time and post-war-time and all-time suicides – corpses all rotted or starting to rot in the dirty brown-black rum waters of the Themes into which they jumped with hearts of despair,
in the city that just doesn’t care.