NitFix

Brand Old Series, Same New Episodes

agitprop troupe 23

during cultural rebellions we

would perform in factories offices

shopping venues public squares & parks

I as stage manager second class

stood responsible for anything

blamed if actors fluffed their given lines

or they took the mickey out of those

inner party lags who called the shots

get my drift old chap 'twas quite a blast

anyway to cut the story short

politicians pinch yourselves it’s not

nineteen eighty-four we lost that war

puppets need improvisation skills

scripts with dialogues they write themselves

endings with beginnings also strings

she's a blinder

benchmarked legal code for those abused

clerks supreme court beaks have had their way

with the model-like peeps Hollywood

loves to portray

strut & fret down corridors of law

shouldering the bulk of disbelief

pending rulings on suspender hose

skintight as silk

sex is demonstrated here in court

witnesses swear oaths while crossing legs

jury's back for who's the fairest say

mirrors on walls

blushing sentences are carried out

stretcher-wise la petite mort or worse

ushers closing doors on last appeals

in camera

flesh photographers unfurling red

tape throw cordon-blues round centre-fold

advocates while glamour hands-me down

justice on heels

memo ad Mortem

novichok new player on the block

beats the competition buck for buck

targets people safely in the home

what's norra love

posted through yr letterbox or sprayed

bobbajob from door to door it knocks

conventionals into a cocked hat

what's norra love

let's be honest agents in the field

oughta have some nerve their work cut out

just delivering payloads on spec

what's norra love

overkill reduced to reportage

only damages collateral

neighbours passers-by & nosey cops

what's norra love

single drawback Russian provenance

means increasing import paperwork

still the bottom line's gotta be cost

what's norra love

I Candy Starr

victimised I played the glamour game

looks to kill for got me where I am

sexploited actor & pc star

who requires a second lease of fame

championing the moral myth crusade

talent always rises to the top

never mind my silence on the up

there was no alternative those days

catching eyes with fetching ways was all

anyone could do to land a part

if the competition now demands

damaged goods with attitude stroke balls

ok sex will sell it matters not

how I'm packaged long as folks can see

nothing on beyond the same old plot

memoir of a passerby

someone just not any old you know

whose appearance on the flags reveals

fleeting depths we guessed pedestrians

always possessed

Stendhal once remarked but then again

should we conjure up ephemera

basking innocently by the moon

light of the mind

leave such things alone for there's no use

fleshing out the ghouls of passing forms

with the dead they should cease to exist

soon as they're off

shoot 'em down like other authors cut

all superfluous detail & leave

nothing but the most important things

dangling in sight

vanish passerby your time is up

all we need to know of you a face

snapped in the sidelight of notice then

wiped from the plate

porn & cheese

funerals for the living not the dead

likewise war on evening watershed

stick the butt behind your ear Jed

smokin in bed

take a new position every day

Danish blue goes well on toast they say

as implied on Tuesday who is they
feet's in the way

smoke 'em out then ease the claptrap down

neighbours may complain don't wear a clown

mask the blindfold's healthier & brown

Leicester with frown

camera lights & action hold that pose

creamy cottage flavoured oil of toes

muslin sacks for pillows cheeky nose

thaaaaar she blows

leastways Tolstoy shoulda penned this scrip

Russian gangsters tore him off a strip

search me hearties all aboard her ship

shape bodice rip

a bigger scratch

pinkish dragons of the blue green world

humans face extinction purple nosed

smoking weapons burping flagrantly

into the wind

people your excrescence crusts the globe

like the exoskeletons of Mars

creatures once intelligent but now

ghostly retorts

what will future visitors to Earth

find upon its surface or above

rusting iron shores your graves or bones

left in the sun

debris drifting in the upper air

signals bouncing round Van Allen's belt

Netflix series still replaying old

episodes eh

sit them down to watch a bowl of crunch

can of frothy beer & scratch of arse

what a binge this planet had they'll think

better than ours

Not Again!