Wednesday 2 May 2018

PUB POPS REDUX





PUB HILL BENCH 
BEFORE INTERWEB

well we was only going out 
for beers and shots
and
no offence at all
to the luxurious charms
of the bigger lady
but
the dozen or so abandoned porn mags
left on the pub hill bench 199?
were folded open to the stars
like some weird offering
to a chauvinist feeder moon

no art in angle or lighting
they were
titled
crudely
Fat and Slack

and under the pubs low ceiling
we drank to these women
and their strange sacrifice
among
a
hundred
other
toasts
to 
all
the other odd and lost
exploitation
niches




NY HOTEL BARS

plaques listed
past glory big name bar rats
who
sozzled here in cool gone days
and
fucked up in deep chairs
we
laughed laughed laughed
at the mad expanse
of booze to choose from

missing the simple choices
of
englands city-corner
one-scotch philistines

we made the best of it
we worked thru all their gins

gurning on fat ice
stirrers and napkins 
piling up on the table

like no one would believe

back home




LONDON MEMORIES 1

coming
out
of
a
bar
hidden down 
fifty feet 
of 
pissy alley

heat from its 
industrial brazier
dried out my face

i
find
its
PM still

isnt it ?

and . . . leicester square ?





LONDON MEMORIES 2

looking
for 
another 
dark bar

i wonder why i left the last one

then i remember

it had 
weird booths
of 
wood and iron

with locks on all the doors




TRAIL

i leave 
fingerprints
on brass poles

i leave dna
in the cold 
back room pissers

we buy drinks by the tray
we wonder if we have found heaven

or at least a place . . .

a drinking bubble isnt it ?

long may it last

amen



Soho Pubs Gallery | Smoke: a London Peculiar

pic from smokealondonpeculiar.co.uk

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