u-boy

by Simon Parker

We’d come to bury U-Boy. 
Not bury, mind, just burn,
and then recall the days
that caused our old pal to turn
from hometown homeboy
white country stock
to rude boy to rasta
to full dread-lock. 

Ranting verse stories of six men: Michael… killed by covid; Len… craving stillness; Victor… child of ’45; Doc… railing at philistines; Punkh… pissing off Tories; U-Boy… blowing and skanking.

Price: £5 (free p&p)