10 February 2012

a smile for the world is worth more


it’s freezing
    and the city is on strike
the mark on my chest
            is knife-cut white

and i don’t know where to go
when it’s this late at night
                          but there are smiles
   coming to me from out side

               clouds and rainwater
       from a thousand miles
of ocean crossing
                crashing in style
   and leaving just in time
              to avoid ‘rights’ and ‘wrongs’
    and bad techno songs
that make you move your feet
                 but don’t do a thing about the
people in the street

it’s not all
         entertainment
anymore

      the time has come

                             again

to batten       the doors
     take to the outside
                  reclaim it
   for weirdos

who know how to love
and let   love
            let it   go

turn it out to the streets
               of the biggest town you’ve seen
because a smile
           for the world
                  is worth more

than any queen’s shilling


than anything




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