Year 7s on a school trip to Featherstone Castle And some wee scallywag's brung A Coca-Cola bottle containing a spirit Poor Peter Hepplethwaite cracks open his head On a shiny brass doorknob And has to be rushed by helicopter amublance To Haltwhistle Hospital
Si Shovell fills a Reebok pump With the pulp from his belly Then sets off a fire extinguisher In the girl's dormitory And finally clambers into bed with Miss Bartholomew Much to the chagrin of the deputy headmaster Whose scarlet skull is firmly wedged between her thighs
I only drank a few little droplets I only took a tiny draught of the vile stuff
Downing Asda's own-brand stubbies in the lad's bogs I listen to the dull reflection of a carillon in the toilet bowl My A-levels drifting away from me Matthew Mooney's hockle in my hair Smells like menthol tabs
Outside the chip shop Thaddeus Wagstaff fractures my cheekbone; 3 empty cans of Castlemaine XXXX Go rolling down my trouser leg Blood, snot and curry coalesce in the corners of my nails My friends drifting away from me
I only drank a few little droplets I only took a tiny draught of the vile stuff
Attempting to penetrate a coconut husk with a Philips-head screwdriver I pierce a hole straight through my hand into the laminate worktop It's a major operation to repair a damaged tendon; I come around with the tube still down my throat The milk of amnesia fills my cup and back into the hole I go
Snoring like a pan of broth, I arouse the ire Of my fellow patients Wagging their ladles in the dark
My neighbour Andrew lost two fingers to a Staffie-cross Whilst jogging over Cow Hill with a Pepperami in his bum-bag He's a junior partner at James & James no-win-no-fee solicitor Thinking of relocating to a Buddhist monastery in Halifax
He reckons I should try meditation He reckons it could benefit my peace of mind
My bedroom walls are papered with the stripes of Newcastle United Between which I perceive the presence of a horse-headed figure Holding aloft a flaming quiver of bramble silhouettes He is the King of Children Singing like a boiler: 'Tomorrow is on its way'
I haven't had a wink of sleep and now the sun is in my porridge I'm starting a BTEC in Engineering at Tynemouth College My thermos flask leaks parsnip soup on the metro Clogging up the keys of my MacBook
Carrot pennies steam amidst a pyre of pencils Ruck-sack dripping up the steps of WH Smith's To buy a fresh pad of paper
I only drank a few little droplets I only took a tiny draught of the vile stuff