Sport 28: Autumn 2002
Nick Ascroft — The Badder & The Better
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.