I AM THE FOOL I am the fool, said the Fool, I am the Queen, said the Queen, I've been here before said the Change, This is your life said the Dream. And the wind goes wheee And the Queen goes 'O dear', And the man says 'I'm all alone'. I am the boy, said the girl, I am the girl, said the boy, I am the pill, said the Church And I am all there is, says the God. And the Saint goes, 'Stick 'em up', And the Devil goes, 'Ha,Ha,Ha', And the man says 'I'm all alone'. 'I'm your lover, dear, says Lady Porno, 'I am the Law', says Desperado. 'I am the truth', says Mr. Politic, 'And I'm all this and more', says the music. And the Police go, ra, ra, ra, And the Ambulance goesWhooo, And the man says 'I'm all alone'.
Gilli Smyth
Mother
BACK TO THE WOMB I'm sorry, I'm really not having this, it's disgraceful. But Prime Minister, I only said that next time around I shall be a mother. While you're interested in these things you'd better find out how people buy yachts. Did you ask him how he was able to buy a yacht? Do you like the sea? Why do you ask these questions anyway? I'm a submarine Captain. Very interesting down there with the fishes and the fishes and the shimmering I'm a politician. I'm a mother. I'm the mother of everything and you are my egg. I'm Doctor Death. I'm Doctor Doom. I'm an old man. I'm the Reverend Beverage. I'm Icky Dicky Dip I'm the wizard. I'm the master. I'm a sanitation engineer. I'm a I'm a Queen, I'm a Hell's Angel, I'm Father Christmas, I'm a boy, I'm a rock star. I'm a bib boy. I'm a little boy. I'm a baby.
KEEP THE CHILDREN FREE I mean if women are going to be really free, I think they should reject marriage because marriage is the way they get hooked and they are in the power of the system: then the system can take away their children All the people who say Oh women have so much power they don't need any more, look they rule the world really and women are free and strong and they should stay in the home and make their influence felt from there because half the women in fact don't have homes half the women are women who have to go out in the world
PROSTITUTE POEM It is night, it is not night I am happy, I am not happy I am sad, I am not sad It's early, it's late I walk, I stand still I walk, I stand still I look in shop windows, I have seen them all Bonsoir monsieur, tu viens avec moi come with me darling, it's not far, just round the corner. You want it, don't you? It's all the same to me What do you want me to do? I touch you, it's not easy It's not like that I'll show you how You are weighing me down I am dyingI am sick of you Je dois manger, n'importe quoi I am hungry I break off the corner of your mind and eat it I am eating your mind I am eating your body your body Come here, I want your mind You You come here come here faire l'amour faire l'amour oui non come into my arms, I kiss your lips, you die I want your body, I do not want your body, what does it matter? goodbye, go away, it's night, it's day, it's over.
OK MAN, THIS IS YOUR WORLD I want to be friends with men. I want to work with men. I like men. But the question is, do men like women? You are a man's man. You like a bit of a drink You like a good smoke. You like to go out with the boys. You are satisfied. You don't want to be a woman because you don't want to be weak. You are strong man I am weak woman. You are heart throb I am hysterical bitch. You are great guy I am stupid chick. You are real man I am butch lesbian. You are good looking I am horny slut. (liar, liar, pants on fire)
TALIESIN Once upon a time, a long time years years ago, there was a witch called Caridwen. She lived in a huge palace with marble halls built on a rock in the middle of a lake. In that palace with her lived a huge crow, an old nam, and her son who was a monster. But she didn't think so and loved him dearly. He was horrible, and was always tormenting animals. There was a little boy, too, who was chained to a huge bubbling cauldron in the middle of the largest marble hall. The witch had come one night and stolen him out of his bed in his parents house and carried him to the palace on the back of the back crow. His name was Gwion and he was very very scared She gave him a ladle and made him stir the cauldron day and night, and if he stopped she whipped him or wouldn't give him any more dry bread. In the cauldron was a spell of wisdom to make her monster son more wise, and it had to cook for a year and a day. But on the very last day of the year, Gwion splashed three drops of the burning liquid on his finger and 'aieeee'he cried, and put it in his mouth. Then he had tasted the spell and the cauldron exploded, exploded into thousands of pieces, and it was Gwion who was suddenly wise. He was so wise he could see everything, he could even see the witch Caridwen gathering herbs at the North Pole. Suddenly she turned sharply towards him with a terrible scream of rage. 'You have tasted the spell meant for my son', she cried. Then she came flying, flying, over the seas and the mountains, the towns and the villages, down down to chase him and catch him and punish him for ever and ever But he could now change into a bird so he flew away up towards the sun, but she changed into an eagle and flew after him faster faster catch him up. So he fell down through the sky into the river and became a fish, hiding among the weeds. She became a fish, too, and seam swam always after him, but then he got tired, and changed into a grain of corn and hid in a sack, but she changed into a chicken and snap, snap, got in the sack and ate him up. So now he was in her stomach, and grew and grew into a baby so that she would give birth to him. And she did, but so that she could kill that baby. 'Now I can kill you' she cried but what a beautiful baby, she can't she can't what will she do now? So she put him in a old leather sack and threw him into the river shrieking 'go away, go away, never look at me again'. The sack floated quietly down the river many many miles, by trees, and houses, and big pools, and then got caught up against a boat. It was a poor man's boat, he and his good wife were in despair, because they had no food or money. He went to the river to fish for supper, he found the sack, what a treasure, what a beautiful baby, his name was Taliesin As soon as he took this golden baby home, their fortunes changed, and they had work and food. The baby grew into a boy, with beautiful clear face and strange green eyes, but joyful and singing always, such songs, all the people would listen and wouldn't move. He won a contest at the court of the king against all the bards, his song was light like birdsong and the people were entranced. Then he kissed the good man and wide and went off through the world singing marvels, at the court of the king, through the countryside, through the towns, n castles and in cottages, to everyone who would listen, and his stories were like spell, and all the people listening were spellbound.