Nocturnal Issue III | Page 11

Parading about on a dingy bus

Damp and wet after dusk

A drunken chav and a mumbling fool

The kind that dropped out of school

A smell that drifts through the seats

One that repels, disgusts and reeks

The common working guy on the last trip of the day

Ready to go home and just hit the hay

The weather turns to rain

And they’re full of utter disdain

But that smell of booze and cannabis

Transports me back to the place I miss

Where long nights in the cabin with my bro

Gaming hard with folks I know

I long for those times again

To have no worries inside our den

And for James I will never forget

That sweet smell of a cigarette

Whether tobacco, straights or dope

They say that life is a slippery slope

So now I work all day and all night

Scared to give up the fight

And I laugh at reprobates

And all of their mistakes

Forgetting that they are mine

That actually I’m a swine

Now that I’ve conformed

Mocking the uninformed

But really they are free

And they are just like me

REMEMBERING LAZINESS

REMEMBERING LAZINESS — JONNY PENN