poem / I'm Gonna Move To Hastings

 

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/

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audio archive is on mixcloud here: https://www.mixcloud.com/salenagodden/

 

Springfield Road published by Unbound Books

Fishing In The Aftermath published by Burning Eye