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Sport 28: Autumn 2002

Nick Ascroft — The Badder & The Better

page 205

Nick Ascroft

The Badder & The Better

This is the new novel.
This is the new unprocessed & overwrought.
This is the new ugly;
This is the new empty.

This is the new hocus-pocus, new subprofound,
The new ham dressed up as lamb.

This is the new bastardisation.
This is the new backtrack of the pack mentality—

The new ham-fistedness, new awkward—
New: indelicate.

This is the new silence
Of the poxy orthodoxy.

This is the new anger, new doubt,
The new energy, new insipid & confessional.

This is the new righteous.
The new clarity of nonsense,

This is the new volcano of molten vomit.
This is the new neo,
The new nothing.
The new say-nothing.

This is the new nothing to add.