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The Help - Robust
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Robust and Bespoke
My whiteness cushions every blow
And it is mine to squander
A shame that I’m the last to know
My skin’s a first responder
My whiteness is invisible
It’s Absence makes me blonder
And after it’s been pointed out
My mind begins to wander
If you want a man to stop drowning, then take your foot off his head
It’s hard to believe it it when it’s true
And if you want a man to die crying then you leave your knee on his neck
It’s hard to perceive it when it’s you.
It’s pancake day, it’s pancake day
Pay no mind to what your guilty conscience say
Include me out, I’m uncomfortable
Include me out, I feel vulnerable
Include me out, of my bubble
But I can always get back in
Blow me tight, I’m deferrable
Blow me tight, It’s inferable
Blow me Tight, how Mercurial!
So emphatically ignorable
The thing that’s most deplorable
Is the part that isn’t curable.
Never heard about Edward Colston, David Tuohy, pirate Morgan, or Harewood House
Won’t talk about San Domingue, William Gladstone, William Beckford Or Richard Blair
We must know about
Ignatious Sancho, the Bangle lady, John Blanke and Joseph Spence
Francis Barber, Black Spartacus, the Mighty Sparrow and Learie Constantine
Pablo Fanque, Muthemba Machel, Yaa Aasantewaa or ChalkyWhite
On and on. Round and Round. Tell me when we hit the ground.
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The Help - Shelf Life
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Shelf Life
Is it a race when one of the runners is hogtied?
Is it a war when one side is small and one plus sized?
That man made a monument to himself
A tradesman who handed out scraps of his wealth
He took out insurance on people he stole
No matter if half of them choke in the hold.
Chicken Supreme overcooked in a pot that’s so Fragile
When she writes words every one looks so fearful and Facile
That man made an arsehole out of himself
And broadcasted his lack of good mental health
Making things worse with the public purse
America grates putting white lives First
Is it a race when one of the runners is shoeless?
It’s not a mystery just because you’re fucking clueless
How dare you condemn them when people like us made them do this?!
If there’s a future you’ve planned,by all means whip out the Blueprint
Look at me, Look at you
Wondering why we all drink so,
Skimming the cream from American dreams
it isn’t pretty to think so.
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Rundfunk
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Common AND Wealthy
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Block
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More, Now! (Sweatshop)
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Eddie
On Carr Bottom Rd
Near the Stylo factory
And past the City training ground
Right next to the chippie
In Edwards house
I got to watch Grange Hill
Bread and butter with every meal
Who could fail to see the appeal?
The only kid in the room to know the word persevere
And he was better at Marbles than me
Alright Don’t get your knickers in a twist
He said in the car when I lost my shit
tried to hit Jesus live on stage
They took your cardboard sword away
legionary in cardboard armour
I Thought about you yesterday.
Swallowed the hogwash and threatening bogwash reports
Pushed off a wall into a bed of nettles in shorts.
Buttered and bred in a briar patch
Ginger and gentle and sweet
I never saw how much shit you would catch
I’m so fucking sorry Ed.
All the tree guards and Vikings
With sticks and knives and handfuls of chives.
Bikes and potatoes, silage and bust nose
Willy and Dickie and Edward
Bronson and Barker are Permanent Markers
Sharper than Harpers, to Indolent larkers
I couldn’t say but The Dead could
I saw Danny Kendal found in a skip
In that front room at teatime
Seventeen years and it became clear
A caesura can’t stop a forced rhyme
I’d heard something once but I didn’t know
Until fourteen years after that
Argus wrote down the gist
Telegraphed what I’d missed
Because I am selfish and fat
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Wetwhitewealthy
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Wetwhitewealthy
The Adhesive man crackled
He’s got Aspic in his beard
Rolled over in his roller
And the immigrants cheered
Got a pain in his chest from the sodium sulphide
If you listen whilst he’s pissing you’ll hear burns on his thighs
What do you do when you smell the glue
That’s made from hair and teeth and skin
Clever clever clever how he makes the leather
From lye brains shit and urine
Walk right by there’s a teAr in my eye
Not in my backyard
Odiferous Trade
Is very well paid
Bit scudding and baiting’s a blockade to meeting
Bacteria getting
Aiding and abetting
Bacteria breeding
BActeria feeding
Run right by
There’s a cloud in the sky
That will strip the hairs out your nose
The adhesive man grappled
With his major concerns
Wrote a letter to his debtors put some cream on his burns
Oh what do you do when you smell of glue
That’s made from hair and teeth and skin
Tricky tricky tricky to dip your wicky
When you stink of brains and urine
Odiferous trade is very well paid but scudding and baiting’s a blockade to mating
The self made man has a pretty good plan. He’ll buy himself a Russian Belle.
Able to lift and work second shift
Preferably with no sense of smell
Come on by there’s a tear in his eye
His cry of love were heard.
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Don Botswana’s Big Nest Sound Wolverhampton, UK
The Big Nest Sound was a One Man Audio Collective featuring occasional Children. The children feature less these
days.
Imaginary Associated Acts
The Help
Don Botswana
Minty Rocksmacker and the New Brown Clouds
Rich Brownsword
MC Cakeslave
Organ Morgan
Your Mother
Woden’s Field Straight Pointers Kunterbunt Rundfunk
And
VseveloDon, the Big Nest Himself
He’ll most likely not bother you.
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