Thursday, October 15, 2009

City of Culture II

John Lennon used to call it Talk Hall
now Liverpool is branding Speke Hall,
John Lennon, Black History and all.
His widow spider wife
gorges on memories.
She doesn't talk about
giving peace a chance anymore...
She'd rather give the yen a chance,
Then again-
John had a private bank account-
at Coutts by all accounts.

Liverpool Airport had become
too pedestrian a name
for the City of Culture
so they renamed it
John Lennon Airport.

'Above us only sky'
read the logo on the new billboard
cribbed from a John Lennon song.
Sorry John,
but above us are only
thousands of vapour trails
criss-crossing the sky