Pigeon Pink Lilo

 

 

Pigeon Pink Lilo

 

 

(loosely based on the rhythm of Cargoes by John Masefield)
 

Pigeon pink lilo from distant Oldham

Rowing home to haven in distant Preston

With a cargo of litter,

and droppings and claw marks,

 Thunderbird, cider & cheap white wine.

 

Stately Bury barge coming down the lock gates

Chugging through the shit by the cobble grey stones

With a cargo of middle class, ageing tourists

Champagne Socialists

Creaking old bones.

 

Dirty British piss head with a smoke caked crack stack

Butting into conversations in the mad March ways.

With a cargo of bitterness

boredom, brain dead

Talking about the footy and the halcyon days.