Mixtape (three poems inspired by hip hop legends)


For Em via Reverend Run
They call me chicka chicka pale Mickey
Be this pale and like hip hop?
It’s tricky, tricky, tricky

For Jay
Ain’t no love (in the heart of the city)
just bigger boys who used to hit me
but here’s the thing they didn’t know
they’d all end up working in Tesco

For Biggie
It was all a dream
I used to read Smash Hits magazine
looking at Take That wondering
how do they make all those girls scream?

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