Alan Franks
Writer and musician
Philippic


Your mum and dad - remember them?
You may not mean to but you do,
Fucked up by a Hull librarian
Who did the business just for you.

And he was fucked up in his time
By that eternal legacy
Which he converted to a crime
And prosecuted your mother and me.

Man hands down sentences to man,
They steepen like a library shelf.
Best thing is blame the ones you can
And keep the extra for yourself.