PUNK POETRY: It's only ever always rain by Clem Flowers

(Contains copious Joy Division song titles and a part of the lyrics of their song "Transmission.")

There's Saints along the

pavement – you're left to

wonder where the night

went - He seemed so

happy

You weren't one needed

You weren't one needed

begged to see the pain the

stare the hours the twitch

smoking some more so

free so free so free on the hill

He's alone how few you know 

truly walking the path of isolation with

the bloom of hope long ago dead

perfume of rot blends with exhaust 

perfect escape for your

Hero of the lost lights

how you watch with awe dance dance

dance to the rhythm of the rain out

past the interzone into the wilderness

decades of insight in the

shadowplay as new dawn fades

new dawn fades into ice age waiting its

turn losing patience every minute 

& bend fight holler contort like

the devil's spine through

pains disorders bring a 

laugh what a laugh hero 

worship the ones who lived with

this pain not understanding you

were their struggles 

their stories 

their Sorrows 

that little inherent twinge of narcissism of sympathy found family in all our bones that little inherent twinge of desire to ache to feel like you belong -

 you adored these lonesome souls because you 

were the Same inside

same inside the witching hour Beautiful

little agonies wait as the hours fall into

horizon like last stone pillars -

old gods on the upswing

again the way the market

goes buy low sell high tears hurt

as you start to see 

sunshine don't they the radio is Nothing but

snow and now a song in unknown tongue which wrecks 

you when it comes thru

You remember nothing these days You remember nothing these days tension tension freedom freedom You remember nothing these days You remember nothing these days tension tension freedom freedom You remember nothing these days You remember nothing these days tension tension freedom freedom You remember nothing these days You remember nothing these days tension tension freedom freedom You remember nothing these days You remember nothing these days tension tension freedom freedom You remember nothing these days You remember nothing these days tension tension freedom freedom You remember nothing these days You remember nothing these days tension tension freedom freedom You remember nothing these days You remember nothing these days tension tension freedom freedom You remember nothing these days You remember nothing these days tension tension freedom freedom You remember nothing these days You remember nothing these days tension tension freedom freedom

bottle breaks in 

the distance the 

smoke still 

lingers 

still proof He 

was here

A truck backfires

The world sighs

blue dogs are forever friends

blue dogs are forever friends

blue dogs are forever friends

You remember 

 Nothing 

these days

--Clem Flowers