The Kemptown Verses

By JJ Leahy

Dignitaries & Unicorns

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1. Post War Jazz
Crazy intense period of excess

2. Nibiru to the Launderette
Time should not be considered as a constant

3. Opaque Daze
Clinical depression

4. The Luxury of Machines
Killing made easy

5. Bliss
just myself, enjoying the angry wind and rain

6. Defend Madrid
In 1936 fascist elements within the Spanish Army staged coup against the elected government.Volunteers from many countries travelled to Spain to fight for both factions.

7. For Services Rendered
When companies encounter any financial stress, the low paid workers lose their livelihood while the bosses retain their million pound bonuses

8. Trespass not into the Psyche
That’s probably good advice

9. The Silence
About Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, Poem written after watching a BBC 1 program ‘Me, My Sex and I’

10. Eloquence of the Traumatic
Be careful who you date

11. Acceptance In Balance
When life is pealed right back to the bone

12. The Pig Ate the Strawberries
Highlighting cronyism, intolerance and bulling in the work place

13. If I Go Mad
Dementia

14. Merchandiser
Anything and everything.

15. The Artist is Dead
When art is aggressively pigeonholed, then the Artist can become compromised

16. Genus Rattus
No knowledge of employment legislation, arrogant and lazy

17. Babbage’s Last Laugh
Charles Babbage built the first programmable computer

18. Last Night
Instant and total introspection

19. The Hashshashin and the Dolphin
Comment on relationships

20. Concept of the Abstract
If the Universe is finite then, potentially entropy can be reversed

21. Revenge
Trust not the politicians

22. Fur Crazy
People who are more comfortable dressed as furry animals call themselves plushies

23. Sex Game Tragedy
Theodora Cyclone, was a secret sex spy

24. Party On
Alcoholism and substance abuse

25. Human Sacrifice
Love is a fragile emotion

26. Father David
With a job to do

27. Good As You
Denounce homophobia

28. That Cambridge Jive
While being educated at Cambridge University, five men prepared to betray their country

29. MCMXXVII
In the year 1927

30. Day Release
People with depressive disorders can have some days of intense joy