{"id":4,"date":"2004-06-10T09:52:44","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T23:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2006-04-30T02:15:24","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T16:15:24","slug":"beasley-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Beasley Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

“beasley street” <\/a><\/p>\n

far from crazy pavements
\n…the taste of silver spoons
\na clinical arrangement
\n…on a dirty afternoon
\nwhere the fecal germs of mr. freud
\n…are rendered obsolete
\nthe legal term is null and void
\nin the case of… beasley street<\/p>\n

in the cheap seats where murder breeds
\nsomebody is out of breath
\nsleep is a luxury they don’t need
\n…a sneak preview of death
\nbelladonna is your flower
\nmanslaughter your meat
\nspend a year in a couple of hours
\non the edge of beasley street<\/p>\n

where the action isn’t
\nthat’s where it is
\nstate your position
\nvacancies exist
\nin an x-certificate exercise
\nex-servicemen excrete
\nkeith joseph smiles and a baby dies
\nin a box on beasley street<\/p>\n

from the boarding houses and the bedsits full of
\n…accidents and fleas
\nsomebody gets it
\nwhere the missing persons freeze
\nwearing dead men’s overcoats
\nyou can’t see their feet
\na riff joint shuts – opens up
\nright down on beasley street<\/p>\n

cars collide, colours clash
\ndisaster movie stuff
\nfor a man with the fu manchu moustache
\nrevenge is not enough
\nthere’s a dead canary on a swivel seat
\nthere’s a rainbow in the road
\nmeanwhile on beasley street
\nsilence is the code<\/p>\n

hot beneath the collar
\n…an inspector calls
\nwhere the perishing stink of squalor
\n…impregnates the walls
\nthe rats have all got rickets
\nthey spit through broken teeth
\nthe name of the game is not cricket
\ncaught out on …beasley street<\/p>\n

the hipster and his hired hat
\ndrive a borrowed car
\nyellow socks and a pink crevat
\nnothing la-di-dah
\no-a-p
\nmother-to-be
\nwatch the three-piece suite
\nwhen shitstopper drains
\nand crocodile skis
\nare seen on …beasley street<\/p>\n

the kingdom of the blind
\n…a one-eyed man is king
\nbeauty problems are redefined
\n…the doorbells do not ring
\na light bulb burst like a blister
\nthe only form of heat
\nwhere a fellow sells his sister
\n…down the river on beasley street<\/p>\n

the boys are on the wagon
\nthe girls are on the shelf
\ntheir common problem is
\n…that they’re not someone else
\nthe dirt blows out
\nthe dust blows in
\nyou can’t keep it neat
\nit’s a fully furnished dustbin
\n…sixteen beasley street<\/p>\n

vince the ageing savage
\nbetrays no kind of life
\n…but the smell of yesterday’s cabbage
\nand the ghost of last year’s wife
\nthrough a constant haze
\nof deodorant sprays
\nhe says …retreat
\nalsatians dog the dirty days
\ndown the middle of beasley street<\/p>\n

people turn to poison
\nquick as lager turns to piss
\nsweethearts are physically sick
\nevery time they kiss
\nit’s a sociologist’s paradise
\neach day repeats
\nuneasy, cheasy, greasy, queasy
\n…beastly, beasley street<\/p>\n

eyes dead as vicious fish
\nlook around for laughs
\nif i could have just one wish
\ni would be a photograph
\non a permanent monday morning
\nget lost or fall asleep
\nwhen the yellow cats are yawning
\naround the back of beasley street<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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