IS IT ONLY ME…?!!! (weekly poem)

IS IT ONLY ME…?!!!

A lighthearted look at some of the ‘rebels’ in our society

I want to stress and emphasise,

My individuality;

By wearing loads of safety-pins,

Like all the commonality!

I’m keen on having some tattoos,

And not because I’m daft or vain;

But like all the nice sailor boys,

I want to show I can stand pain!

Tattooing’s a most painful art,

But I want to give it a whirl;

As notwithstanding, nowadays,

It’s seen on every teenage girl!

I want to stand out from the crowd,

By being everyway the same;

In hairstyle, clothing, ‘phones and shoes,

In fashion’s self-financing game.

I want a gold-stud through my tongue,

So when I say, “Yer know” and “Like”;

Employers at my interview,

Can say politely, “On yer bike”!

I want a dragon-fire tattoo,

To circumnavigate my neck;

To be a rebel like the rest,

And say to posh folk, “What the heck”!

I want a load of facial studs,

To highlight each pubescent zit;

And make me even uglier,

So that I look a proper tit!

I want a load of piercing fings,

Stuck through my eye-brows and my ears;

So that I stand out from the crowd,

The Twenty-Million of my peers!

I want a Belly-Button Stud,

So that I’m not the only one,

To pick away my scaly scab,

Whilst reading ‘Star Signs’ in the ‘Sun’!

I want to be just one sharp dude,

Who’s seen as ‘streetwise’, ‘now’ and ‘cool’;

Because the last thing I would want,

Is lookin’ like a bleedin’ fool!

© Richard Layton