i used to get the no. 86 bus from
Romford to Seven Kings...
read my Stendhal...

i'll admit...
i stole three books in my life...
Stendhal's the scarlet & the black,
the quran...
and a book by some
literary obscurity worthy
of a status as poet,
from a Greek hostel...
some San Francisco "art scene"...

i also stole
a C.D. from W.H. Smiths'...
queens of the stone age:
songs for the deaf...
was i caught...
no...
but having said this,
am i caught, yes...

but back to the bus number 86...
do you know who always sat
at the back of the bus?
the black kids...

what?!
  they did!
               so... what the **** has
rosa parks have to do with
anything in her attempts
to spin the wheel of progress?
the black teenagers in late 90s
and early 00s: WANTED to
sit at the back of the bus...

  dunno... eyes honing on the text
in a book, i really wasn't looking
for a *******
          john constable
                                 was i?!

i might be a drunk,
but i have sober reasoning,
which the majority of the sober populace
seem to have lost...
such a shame...
no... not really...
          the same **** Churchill said
to the teetotaler ******...
******* from whence you came,
and take this **** back
with you... in Christmas presents'
packaging...
your ***** schmuck not
worth Charlies' 'tash....
****** all you want...
  i much prefer a *******
amber and a, ******* yawn...
savvy?!

- but still... what was the point
of the rosa parks protest?
when, traveling to school,
on the no. 86 bus,
all the black kids, "naturally"
drifted toward...
sitting at the end of
              the double deck'er?
protest, what? exactly?!
i was the middle man...
no front, no back...
but i'm pretty sure the black
kids used to sit in the back seats,
sociable... collective...
in on the new slang phrase...

i honestly lost the plot
of the gaming community when
Final Fantasy VIII came out...
that's when gaming
ended for me;
it (let's just say)
became too... "complicated";

****...
i made a comment about a historical
point of interest...
but i do not reflect /
nor reject /
   not adhere to /
acknowledge this as part of my
ethnic make-up...
did i just make a cultural appropriation?!