Local Romeo from Power Cut by Laurie Shaw

Local romeo
Thought he’d be a bad boy all his life
People used to say
“What you gonna do when you
Get out of the jack knife?”
Stalking the lover’s walk
Talking like an electric line
Thought he’d set the world on fire
With a gold guitar and a madame pompadour

Lacking all precision
At the motorbike collision
He was thrown into the night
Dylan - style

And he lapped it up dearly with his arm in a cast
“What a blast that was” Romeo said
Picking out the goose feather pillows for his stay
Practicing his banter for the green room occupance

People used to say
“Well it’s all well and good
But what you gonna do
When you get out of the jack knife?”
“Just think about the great romances
I could mythify
In my self-penned slow dances
She sends me photographs
Of her french college porridge
And she floats on a light leak
I go weak at the lymph nodes
Thinking of her poses in the floating bar

But the winters drag on and that job hasn’t gone
In the summer laying floors
With the politician’s son,
Just one summer then I swear I’ll be gone”
Oh romeo, swear you’ll be gone

You’re still the king of everybody’s hearts
Someone said you’ve got a kid
And you rent in Callan Park
Guess you never got out of here alive
Maybe one summer you can catch the shark

• Alternative
• alt rock
• pop
• rock'n'roll
• Kenmare