{"id":1481,"date":"2008-11-24T08:37:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T08:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2008-11-24T08:37:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T08:37:56","slug":"james-morris-introduces-us-to-more-people-from-our-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/james-morris-introduces-us-to-more-people-from-our-past\/","title":{"rendered":"James Morris introduces us to more people from our past"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boozing Buddies<\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
Scabby Dave<\/span>
 <\/span>
Scrofulous,<\/span>
Adhering to his beard <\/span>
The froth.<\/span>
A skeletal rock monster <\/span>
On his back,<\/span>
He looks like that.<\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
Lance<\/span>
 <\/span>
Telling me he is going to open a boutique in London<\/span>
in his rags.<\/span>
A fishing rod for a walking stick,<\/span>
Then when that got nicked;<\/span>
A branch.<\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
Ged
 
<\/span>Drinks and drinks <\/span>
And thinks he\u2019s Clint \u2013<\/span>
(the Stetson over his face),<\/span>
In front of the open fire,<\/span>
Mumbling to himself.<\/span>
 <\/span>
Sometimes I see him \u2013<\/span>
Striding over the plain <\/span>
(over the waste ground)<\/span>
On his way home,<\/span>
The man with no name.<\/span>
 <\/span>
Recently though a change \u2013<\/span>
Sporting cane (silver-topped), <\/span>
A watch-chain hanging, <\/span>
His new black jacket,<\/span>
Hey! I've got it! Doc Holliday.<\/span>
<\/span>
 <\/span>

~ ~ ~ ~ ~<\/span>
  <\/span>

Acid<\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
Karl<\/span>
 <\/span>
Early one morning (on the guitar<\/span>
took an acid tab aged twenty<\/span>
twenty five years later<\/span>
threw himself under a car) just<\/span>
As the sun was rising\u2026<\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
Joe <\/span>
 <\/span>
He could play<\/span>
A nice action<\/span>
I would say.<\/span>
Slung high<\/span>
On his chest<\/span>
Fingering the frets.<\/span>
 <\/span>
Tipped for the top<\/span>
And he did it \u2013<\/span>
Topped himself.<\/span>
In that room<\/span>
His big break,<\/span>
A broken neck.<\/span>


* James Morris: “I work as an English teacher in Thailand. I looked round the Teacher's Room today and thought… Rejects from the West, a failure Fest.”<\/span>
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