DAEVID ALLEN PERFORMANCE SITE

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THE SORRY POEM
(for pity’s sake) 

I’m Sorry… 
Whatever I did, 
I’m
  REALLY sorry. 
And… 
I’ll NEVER do it again! 
I’m sorry because I’m me 
I’m sorry because I’m here 
I’m sorry because you’re here/ you’re there 
I’m sorry I’m old… 
I’m sorry I’m jung 
I’m sorry I’m not a freud   

I’m REALLY sorry i LOVE sex. 
I’m really sorry I’m not a terrorist! (tourist) 
I’m really sorry that once you’re over sixty 
& single….  
you automatically become a dirty old man.   

An old punk gropin for the jam, 
Punch drunk with  
spunk stained bank cards &  
the worst mortal morals of any man. 
A sleezy gawping on exceptional stalks, 
A pork stick pretending to think 
AND  
a probable  
paedo-astro-philo-soph-is-tick-ate mate 
…..but 
I DON’T THINK SO! 
Me? Were I one pixilating photo-synthesis of disgusting lust then 
i be less than a crapulating craw-toad gangelion slobbering on a  white crow!  

A stalleon smello spasm….. 

sorry 

Anyway 
I’m SO sorry you think 
That
I’M dirty 

I’m SO sorry you think that 
I myself personally am  
a dirty old man! 
The thought actually never occurred to ME  
that I was old  
but it must have come from somewhere hey (?). 
The thought never occurred to me that I was DIRTY,  
to whit 

i am SO sorry  
YOU just blew a silent yet deadly fart 
& are STILL looking at  
ME  
accusingly. 

I fart in your general direction then….. 
(turns back, bends over & farts at audience) 

I’m SO sorry I am seventy and have a raging hardon for your wife 

I am SO sorry that after three score & ten years I still like to score three times in a ten hour day & so wot anyway. 

I am SO sorry I love lying naked  on public beaches or….if under duress…  
looking luscious in a g-string  polka dot
 bikini bottom. 

I’m SO sorry you can’t GET OFF ON my wrinkles, sags, barnacles & crinkles & don’t even notice my twinkle.
HEY! Examine a whale! 
Handsome brutes!!  
Winsome cutes!! 

DREAM WAITER! 
bring me my bill for the barnacles! 

I am SO sorry Holy Holy Hollywood is too scared to make movies with  
sextegenarian sex scenes &  
why don’t hollywood actors  
ever have visible hard-ons eh?  
PONKLE!! 

I am so sorry I NEVER say no to a 25 Y.O. gal who offers a night in black satin silk sheets while shouting poetry by Karl Marx & listening to Shostakovitch & Sage Francis simultaneously…  
both at full volume.  
Numerologically peaking…. 
To whit: 
I am SO sorry my girlfriend is 45 years younger than me &  
I’m so sorry you find this shocking my god where have
you been all your life?  
Forget prozac! 
Forget the Christian Brothers! 
Take a cold shower! 
Rescue Remedy! 
Triple vodka! 
Russian roulette?   

I am SO sorry  
I am NOT sitting in a corner  
dozing off  
while dribbling fatuous truisms about  
my beautiful grandkids while peeing gently in my POPPY nappy……YET! 

I’m SO sorry I got to 70,  
STILL HAVENT GROWN UP  
& don’t believe I am  
as wise as my 14 yo son 
YET 

I’m SO sorry I don’t fit into a nice comfy social identikit box  
so you can  
talk-down to me,  
patronise me,  
and pack me away like a  
poor old bewildered  
past participle parsnip  
on tranquilizers  
muttering feebly about  
the good old days 

I am SO sorry that at my age  
I REALLY ENJOY appearing  
ON STAGE in a 1920s flapper style  
transparent red sequin dancing dress!  

I’m SO sorry you think I am a  PERVERT  
because I cant resist TITTY-ELATING WORDS 
Or because I get stoned on  
literate alien alliteration!  
to whit: 

Polly’s paranormal pussy pickled Peter’s perilously peppered proboscis in a purple pesticide paprika prophylactic paella, while presenting presumed preternatural pudendum as a psychotically prudish preventative prune purgatory. 

FUCKIN WO’EVER!  

Sorry, 

Look, I’m REALLY SORRY  
And I KNOW I am seventy but  
I have a preposterous protuberance  
for your hussyband’s poppydong, darling!  
 

FEAR NOT CUMRADES I’M HIP POCKET! 
Oh LAWD I am SO sorry for the  
victimized legions of born again 
ZOMBIE BURGER GOBBLERS! 
Queuing up at Hungry JERK! (off) 

So sorry for those who still believe that Mister Howard was NOT a White Christian Racist Supremacist! 

&  

I’m  So SORRY 
Those who fear retribution for their SINS! 
For e.g: 
Those bogan yogi drones on whore-moans, thumbing through plastic surgery promotions,  
ogling sex in the city style cellulose-free celebrities & feeding like rubrik ravens pon  
their mirrorball marketing morals  & secret self loathing  

I’m sorry I’m not a disaster addict  
watching fear & loathing on ch 7, ch 9, ch 10 watching fux news manic depressive  
market analysts slowly auto-deconstructing…. 

I’m so sorry IF  
you never said sorry. 
So sorry IF 
You couldn’t say thanks. 
So sorry IF we are not up to the challenge of optimism. (yet) 
Sorry IF we don’t possess the audacity to have HOPE for our children! (yet) 

 

I am  sorry we are SO scared  
of everything we don’t understand. 
Sorry IF we’re scared of the DARK! 
I’m sorry you decided to be stupid 
When you’re actually secretly smart. 

In truth….. 
for all we worried citizens   
righteous uptight citizens 
for all we silly citizens 
and all of virtue’s denizens 
for all we sorry citizens 
For whom the ticking clock 
Sings the blues….. 

I’m So sorry…So sorry… 
Soooo sorry…… 
for  
yoooooo! 
(& me too)