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.
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