Not Another Bad Role Model - Nancy Spungen Tribute Poem
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Nancy Spungen to Sid Vicious on the 12th of October 1978 found under the sink at the Chelsea Hotel New York
It's the same old song and dance my friend
From 17 to 20
Years passing like the dilation of eyes
A needle on a bathroom tile
You're a regular scientist
Your chemical misproportion an excess and a drought
It bleaches
Seeps into my own
Regrets, yes I'm sure you've had a few
Your knife, your room key
Sour tasting sweat
I'm paying the earth shop to hoard my final scores
Do you miss me and the Chelsea?
Now your spikes have deflated, you scared acid tongued reptile
Graeco-Roman hands above heads lines a broken statue stomach
I'm quiet now
Even as a baby umbilical cord around my neck like a microphone
Choking out the screams
Screwball, roll me the dice
Forming a beatnik hat
Kiss me all over
Exile me to that soggy smoked sofa
The slot machines hitting
100,
100,
100
Comedy's a nuclear rocket
007 chasing it up into the sky
Fire turning me into hell dust
You've got to
Go,go,go,go
Behind the bars
Head lolling against the ends of the U-bend
Body buried mummering in golden shoes spinning me down
Your carcass in the cooler
Stuck there longer for someone's brother than for the girl who bought her death
You did it your way
by Alex Dunton
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