I’m
Gonna Move To Hastings
I’m
gonna move to Hastings
pick
up where I left off
I’m
gonna get drunk every day
with
drunks who piss me off,
I’m
gonna move to Hastings
become
the fancy blow job queen
get
a job in a dirty dark pub
with
a broken ice machine.
I’m
gonna move to Hastings
where
it’s two quid for triple house gin
I’ll
go mental, crazy eyed
wear
no shoes and go through bins,
I’m
gonna move to Hastings
sleep
with bouncers and not the bands
in
the toilets I have fishermen finger me
with
tattooed, corn rough hands.
I’m
gonna move to Hastings
spend
my benefits on the booze
get
off with peoples boyfriends
get
in cat fights which I’ll lose,
I’m
gonna move to Hastings
smoke
cheap fags and score shit gear
get
bloated on chips and vodka
have
weird sex beneath the pier.
I’m
gonna move to Hastings
teenage
mothers pissing on the street
white
stillettos without irony
blistering
on their feet,
I’m
gonna move to Hastings
where
it’s as cheap as chips
and
the bad boys, they crack on
even
when the condom rips.
I’m
gonna move to Hastings
go
as low as high can go
we
all suck on Hastings rock
it’s
the hardest rock I know,
I’m
gonna move to Hastings
bed-sit
with a vague view of the sea
sign
on the sick, save my medication
burn
these poems, when they burn me.
(c) Salena Godden / published in 'Fishing In The Aftermath'
Today I'm going home to Hastings to do a show with John Cooper Clarke and Luke Wright.
You'll find last minute tickets for tonight's show: here
Tickets also available at the Hastings Tourist Information Centre (01424) 451111
I'm right in the middle of the mayhem of summer festival season now....
All my summertime news is in my UNBOUND SHED HERE
See you here and there! sgxx
July 11: Unbound Books, Cornbury Festival, Oxford
July 14: Inside, L'escargot, Soho
July 18-19: Lovebox, London
July 22: Jawdance, Apples and Snakes, Rich Mix, London
July 31: Ways With Weirds, Port Eliot Festival
August 14-16: Green Gathering, Wales
August 21: Edinburgh International Book Festival
September 4-6: Festival No.6, Portmerion, Wales
October US tour and road trip: Louisiana, Texas, Nashville, New Orleans...
For more words and pictures:
'Springfield Road' tumblr is here: http://salenagodden.tumblr.com/
I just joined Instagram here: https://instagram.com/salena.godden/
audio archive is on mixcloud here: https://www.mixcloud.com/salenagodden/
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| Springfield Road published by Unbound Books |
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| Fishing In The Aftermath published by Burning Eye |
