Try this trick --
an epoch of sticky buckfast nightmares
or dirty whitey smearing
speed dobbers on souls
or rip the mirror image of a drunken Jack
from the shiny midnight of a
rum sticky floor
Try this trick--
Rum Lash Sodomy
and Kala Kala Kala
and crazy glass smash
and memories --
a hallucinatory soundtrack
tremendous shatter of noise
in the darkness thru which Belfast
shadows crawl
Try this trick--
myriad neon wristbands rotate
a drunken candleabra
the great midget himself on the dancefloor
in a little red corvette
bappin' bappin' it bappin' it out
Or this trick--
engaged always in war --
be it
Mr Bliss
and the mutha - fuckin' Po-lice
or Aaryl
with his struggles with
the daylight
and the wasps
and the Captain (poor Captain)
what with walking
and the glasses
and Selfish Mick's lethal
vendetta with bins
Try this trick --
and spin it
One thousand halcyon
stupours of madness and mirrors
and watching the ghosts drift
away thru the frame