"knuckledusters" poems
My hometown was rough
because teddy boys and mods and rockers
off the cargo ships from Glasgow and the docks
and slums of England rocked the streets
and knocked the local toughs
out silly with their knuckledusters.
They also slashed them with their razors and their chains.
Yeah, but my friends and I had a revolver
when we were kids
and we used to try and shoot out streetlights
on dark and stormy nights.
We missed, but we could have shot
those boaties close up for all their street frights and
all their ****** peccadilloes like ******* local girls
and leaving a league of nations in their wake.
We didn't pull the trigger there,
but they shouldn’t have got away with snickering
among themselves that they could
pull girls’ knickers down when they wanted,
and scare us with their their flick knives.
We let them get away with thinking
we were easy pickings
in that small town where I was born.
But it’s just as well, really.
I'm glad we didn't take their lives.
Mike T Minehan
Aug 23, 2017
Aug 23, 2017 at 4:58 AM UTC
The velvet glove of treachery .
The matriarchs have spoken .
The licenses are handed out .
Each confederate taken their token .
Got on their boots and knuckledusters .
All tooled up for the fight .
Not one of them can look at me .
Cause they attack in the dead of night .
Blindsided by a cowardly clan .
Of narcissistic rage .
All have been infantilised .
And remain that early age .
The women ruling at the top .
So bad they only worsen .
Clever , charming , well educated .
And they masters in coercion .
Hard . Not strong .
Dispassionate , cold and fully flawed.
Disdainful righteous haughty .
Acting as one God .
But if they meet the real one .
They shall be shaking in their shoes .
Ten pounds in a Sunday plate .
And an hour in the pews .
Is not enough to save them .
And their narcissistic clan .
They have tried to ruin me .
A good and honest man .
I moved away . Said nothing .
And I never shall again .
They never did deserve me .
In their demonic like domain .
Apr 7, 2016
Apr 7, 2016 at 6:03 PM UTC