Adrian Mitchell Quotes

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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Adrian Mitchell
When I am sad and weary
When I think all hope has gone
When I walk along High Holborn
I think of you with nothing on

Adrian Mitchell
Retire, retire into a fungus basement
Where nothing moves except the draught
And the light and dark grey figures
Doubling their money on the screen;
Where the cabbages taste like the mummy's hand
And the meat tastes of feet;
Where there is nothing to say except:
'Remember?' or 'Your turn to dust the cat'.

Adrian Mitchell
You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,
You take the human being and you twist it all about
So scrub my skin with women
Chain my tongue with whisky
Stuff my nose with garlic
Coat my eyes with butter
Fill my ears with silver
Stick my legs in plaster
Tell me lies about Vietnam.

Adrian Mitchell
Lovers lie around in it
Broken glass is found in it
Grass
I like that stuff

Adrian Mitchell
May I borrow your wheelbarrow?
— I didn't lay down my life in World War II
so that you could borrow my wheelbarrow

Adrian Mitchell
I was run over by the truth one day.
Ever since the accident I've walked this way

Adrian Mitchell
Here are some happy English soldiers.
They are going to make the Irish happy.

Adrian Mitchell
I would have walked on the water
But I wasn't fully insured.
And the BMA sent a writ my way
With the very first leper I cured.

Adrian Mitchell