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No.1 Hoppa & Tasha Top Ten June 2001 - MiPo Best of 2001

Destroy It Yourself - 14/06/2001

Snail trails of paste taint every surface
my sticky hands leave evidence
that would have forensic scientists
performing excited somersaults.

The pencil and scissors play
hide and seek under paper cast offs
while the tape, his turn to be it,
counts to a well measured hundred.

Straight lines elude me, while
their crooked counter parts
angle mocking smirks
and snigger at my ineptitude.

My frustration is coloured blue
my countenance shaded red,
clashing with the neutral shades
that I coax into place.

So I reach for cold beer support
and the walls mimic it's effervescence
blowing random bubbles
that try my patients further.

I rub at the uneven decor
as if summoning a DIY genie
to grant me a single wish
flat walls that I could paint.
 
© Nicholas Vosper 2001