Saving Gimme the Lead!

The mad kid saving walked left-side, south-side towards me
he was about 7
his mother was a cleaning lady
she had a large black dog
and the mad kid said:

'Gimme the lead!
Gimme the lead!
Gimme the lead!'

I'd just walked past the alcoholics' dry-out house
the lawn was littered with cans of Barbican
there was a feminist's Austin Maxi parked outside
with anti-nicotine and anti-nuclear stickers on the side
... on the inside and they didn't even smoke...

Anyway, two weeks before the mad kid had said to me:

'I'll take both of you on,
I'll take both of you on,'

Then he seemed the young one
he had a parka on and a black cardboard Archbishop's hat
with a green-fuzz skull and crossbones
he'd just got back from the backwards kids' party;
anyway, then he seemed the young one,
but now he looked like the victim of a pogram

- Mark E Smith, The Fall

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