The People's Poet

[quesarah]

Since no one chose answer (2) in my Young Ones poll, I'm going to post some of Rick's best poetry. Take that, you bastards!

CLIFF

(from Demolition)
Oh, Cliff
Sometimes it must be difficult not to feel as if
You really are a Cliff
When fascists keep trying to push you over it
Are they the lemmings?
Or are you Cliff?
Or are you, Cliff?

(Cliff refers to Cliff Richard. Why an anarchist likes him is beyond my understanding.)

RICK'S TEEN ANGUISH POEM

(from Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones Book)

oh god,
why
am I so much more sensitive than everybody else ?
why
do I feel things so much more acutely than them,
and understand so much more.
I bet I'm the first person who's ever felt as rotten as this.
could it be
that I'm going to grow up
to be a great poet and thinker, and all those other wankers in my
class are going to have to work in factories or go on the dole?
yes, I think it could.