Peter Rabbit Deals Drugs
I have seen it with my own eyes.
He’s selling crack to schoolgirls
pimping on the Union Street side of town.
Branded with prison tattoos
and wearing his gang colours.
It was him and his boys who tazered
those bouncers last weekend.
They found a severed female hand
in the gutter 2 doors away
from where he lived a month ago
but they couldn’t make a connection.
This is what happens when fairytales
become too unreal and unbelievable.
They metamorphosis into something
darker or get left behind and laughed at.
Nowadays our children reject them
in favour of killing things
upon a computer screen.
Training themselves up for adulthood
whilst Peter Rabbit and the rest
of the ‘Now Dark Fairytale Crew’
await on dimly lit corners
to poach their adolescent souls away.
© Paul Tristram 2012
Lead-Free Personality
Nothing seems to bring her down, ever!
She just skips down the street.
It’s a Doris Day world which she inhabits
glorious sunshine or rain showers
to dance in.
I’ve never heard anyone whistle so much
in all my life?
You need sunglasses just to look at her
with that beaming smile
and dressed up in Summer colours
even in the middle of Winter.
It’s enough to make you sick!
I would tell her
but she would probably just give me a hug.
I’m sure I saw songbirds
helping her peg out washing
at 6am this morning
unless I was having one of my turns, again?
Life just is not fair
Why does she have to be my neighbour?
Sometimes I could punch her right in the fucking face!
© Paul Tristram 2012
