Poem
The rouge smeared on the aged profile of the local THF cologne branch chairman was sore and inched well away from print.
The centimetre oblong lipstick compounded fear.
For him I did not care a jot.
The centimetre square purges fear.
Commentary
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A poem read by Mark E. Smith on Greenwich Sound Radio, 1983.
Footnotes
Sources / Links
- Ford, Simon (2003). Hip Priest: the story of Mark E Smith and The Fall. London: Quartet Books.
- Pringle, Steve (2022). You Must Get Them All: The Fall on Record. [paperback edition]. Pontefract: Route Publishing Ltd. [Online store]
- Smith, Mark E. (1985). The Fall Lyrik & Texte Von Mark E. Smith. In Deutsch & Englisch. With Drawings by Brix. Berlin: The Lough Press. [AKA The Orange Book. Available online in The Internet Archive]
- Smith, Mark E. (2008). vII. The Lough Press & AMarquisManipulationProductions. [AKA the Blue Lyrics Book]
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