SNOBBERY v YOBBERY

SNOBBERY and yes YOBBERY

Or time in the UK

0-10

1970-1980

My only memories are incidences of stress/conflict

And accidental self-inflicted injury

Falling over and what not

Silently tackled by a brother

For a joke, the trippist monk

Slapped drunk by a fatherly cuff and getting locked

Being accident prone was a curse

They could blame it on my calamity

When I had teeth

Breasts were replaced by bottles

I dimly recall -  and they have been

Interchanged ever since

10-20

1980-1990

School and failure

it was all about cornflakes, 

tying ties 

making friends 

girls

fights

thievery

and spending time with like minded criminals 

in their rooms with smoke

and mirrors and

then flights and girls and booze 

and in the middle of the girls there was a girl with love

and there was a baby..

or two…

20-30

1990-2000

Shitty jobs

Fatherhood 

Football

The leaving of the North by any means possible

Or necessary 

We can make a life down south by the sea

She said 

Selling to my shell like 

We made a go of it 

Or you did
Didn't we?

30-40

2000-2010

Divorce and its aftermath 

The cleaving of the cleft 

Needing wisdom from the internal bereft 

Guilt wrung but not wanting to pretend 
To be ignorant of ancestors' ignorance

Sorry loves 

It’s for the best

He has to go

Working for the Royal Mail on the South Coast

Drowning in self 

Drowning in post 

Not thinking I’m thunk yet 

Not thinking 
I'm thunk

…