The Manchester Review
Matthew Welton
Four-letter words
Poetry
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Why’d your back door just slam shut? Why’s your room this warm?
D’you want some fizz?

hmmm?

Does your roof leak? How’s your wife? Who’s that ugly girl?
Why’s some body like this need that much cash?

well?

D’you like riot-grrl punk more than lo-fi folk? D’you like blue beat more than soca?
Soca more than soul? Soul more than glam? Glam more than prog?
Prog more than hard-core sucu suco?

whew..

What have they done with your nice tidy flat?
D’you find you’d have more lice here than itsy pink ants? More bugs than bees? More grey mice than rats?






















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