LEGAL GAGGING ORDERS
Writing lyrics for bands
whom your name then edit,
you take the pocket-money,
they take all the credit.
But they write the music,
they do the touring.
You share not in the royalties,
there's no one you adoring.
You get legally gagged,
yet it's you choose it.
Where lyric, and pocket-money,
should they go refuse it ?
MAGIC SHIP No. 136 snippet: Just a few of the very many celebs/stars who attended a gig in Teesside some years into this century, then visited sunny Saltburn. These, here, are now deceased: David Bowie, Lemmy, Scott Walker, Amy Winehouse, Steve Strange, Ronnie Dio, David Cassidy, Peaches Geldof, George Martin, Terry Pratchett, Gerry Anderson, Stan Lee, Ken Dodd, Freddie Starr, Gene Wilder, Joan Rivers, Peter O'Toole, Heath Ledger, Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor. MB
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A FANCY-DRESS DISCO WAR-DANCE
Chief Sitting Bull
at the bar was stood,
looked at me and said
"Think you're Clint Eastwood ?"
Strolled by Geronimo,
"Hey there, little big horn,"
to Sitting Bull he spoke,
"Ill whip you up a storm."
Chief Sitting Bull,
now aflame with fire-water,
put down his whisky,
ready for the slaughter.
Head to head they went,
a juiced up Geronimo
and a raging Bull.
What a wild west show !
PUSH-BIKE PAVEMENTS
Heavy loads
upon the roads
fill cyclists with fear.
On the sidewalk
they don't balk
at riding up your rear.
Off the roads
with heavy loads,
on pavements biking,
they go steer
up your rear.
Not to your liking.
Heavy loads
upon the roads
fill cyclists with fear.
No brakes, no bell,
bode not well,
watch your back, hear ?!
