in which he changes his mind

nothing's naff enough to be exempt

from my music no naive note no fart or

raspberry no nails on chalkboard now and ever screeching

in memories when once we went to school

a hundred years ago or more or so

 

and going further back if Shakespeare's dawdling student doodled

on his slate before the master clipped his ear then still he

scratches somewhere 'neath the dark his blanket snailed

with eye gunk slobber spunk and the slow

piss of dreams that never go away

 

I've never heard the snuffle of the slave's

skin when the whip snips it AND I don't want to SOME things

ought to be verboten I haven't heard the cries of the tortured

dead I want my catalogue in concentrated form easy to digest particularly

I don't want assault in cinemas by sound waves

 

designed for other ears not mine I want control and quiet

enough to rinse me deep in sleep until

I rise in shine and all the birds

will sing