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Shock, tuft, clump bush.
Hair, hair, hair
Lash, tash, pit, tushe.
Hair, hair, hair
Hair here.
Hair there.
Hair were there should not be hair
None were there was some
Some were there was none
Hair, hair, hair

Straight Southerly

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To some, a brilliant satirist using children’s verse styles and influences to conjure dark images of contemporary western consumer society with poems such as: The Life And Death Of Art and Simply Everyone’s Taking Cocaine.

To others a fraudulent opportunist and self publicist who briefly and inexplicably clambered his way up the greasy media pole only to be rightly hounded back down by those who saw straight through his “Childlike scrawlings”, Savil Row suits and chunky legged Butler.

“I don’t want to read his poetry, I want to borrow his Carmen Rollers,

Barbra Ellen.

The Observer.

With his outrageous appearance and mesmeric performance style he briefly shook the poetry world out of its self-referential exclusivity, only to suddenly disappear from public view in the wake of scandal and destruction at one of the worlds most powerful record companies.

Poet, Comedian, performance artist or hoaxer?
Was Murray Lachlan Young’s bizarre punk Dandy stage persona and dark doctor Seuss writing just too much for the average press corps literature graduate to take in?
Was the music industry’s triumphant delivery of a ‘literary figure’ a direct attack on the music/literature status quo?
Was it true that he was the cause-celeb and pet project of a Cocaine snorting elite that went to the very heart of the industries of desire?
Whichever way you look at it he certainly did provide something for people to write about?

“Soon his bosses at EMI won't be able to sell him to the government for use as tallow fuel to burn alongside BSE infected cows”

Barbra Ellen. The Observer

* “Some sort of half bastard verse” Norman Tebbitt

* "Darkly satirical cautionary tales for a modern generation"
The Scotsman

* "The type of thing one reads on the walls of public lavatories" Daily Telegraph

* “This is kind of English rap” Paul Godfrey Morcheeba

* “This is English rap” “Stephen Stills”

* “The best since Betjamin” Neil Tenant, The pet shop Boys

* “Highly entertaining” Ned Sherrin

* “That Nutter Poet” Tim Roth

* "I’ve heard of him" Tom Stoppard

* "Have you seen my dog?" George Michael

Ode to Boris Johnson

With an eye for a thigh and an old fashioned pie

With the chicken McNugget his rallying cry

Here comes Boris Johnson so scousers beware

In bounds the bozzer that stray polar bear

He’s guffing out gaffs for the corps to guffaw

“Oi say something Boris! Yeah, food then the war”

It’s not until Bozzer is loose with his tongue

You could say that the conference has really begun

As the Blair is the Blair as the Hoff is the Hoff

Well the Bozzers the Bozzer the punk rockers toff

A blancmange on a bicycle bluff and obtuse

Like a golfing celebrity what is his use?

No, he’s too good for politics he should be king

So lets kneel to show fealty and kiss Bozzers ring

He did sign a million pound record deal with EMI

He did have a series on Global MTV

He did have a BBC2 special

He did have a lead part in a movie playing opposite Gerard Depardieu

He did not have an affair with Chrissy Hynde or Neil Tennant

He did not throw himself off Beachy Head in 2002

He did tour the UK with Julian Cope

He did publish his book in Italy but did not direct an Opera in Sicily

He did run a small-unlicensed pub in Sussex “The rotting Ash”

He has not become a close personal friend of Michael Winner

He did play the main stage at Glastonbury

He was asked to play Attila the Hun in an American mini series

He did appear in about a boy

He did write his own part in Plunkett and Mclean

He was asked to be the Texas ambassador to Scotland

He was told off for speaking his mind to Uma Thurman

He was not the (main) reason everyone was sacked at EMI records

He did buy back his work from EMI for one pound
He was born in America

He did not have a nervous breakdown in 2000

He no longer runs a small S&M club off the Charing Cross road

He has not appeared in a French Porno film called la chasse

He did star a short film about a man with a giant Penis

He does not have a giant Penis

He has written a screenplay called Tart du merde

He does run a website called

He is a crap surfer

He did head butt an alien on stage on a Thames party boat

He has worked on the door of the miniscule of sound