Name: Coulda Said
Duration: P00H02M01S
Description: The Haves meet the Have-nots.

Coulda Said

from Loudmouth: Page and Pub Poems by Michael Botur

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The Haves meet the Have-nots.

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Coulda Said

Coulda said that he wore the same clothes seven grey weekdays in a row,
the 80s polar fleece, pilled, no elbows, flogged from the dollar box outside the Salvo’s.
Coulda notified his lust for uppercuts kept trippin him up,
that he gave his high school principal a new setta dentals
Coulda said he laid tarmac with a chaingang every Friday
for his PD. Didn’t even know what them two letters stood for, just something the judge said he had to do with the crust of the dregs.
Coulda mentioned he’s on perpetual detention,
That every clown speakin English like a queen has gotta be
a teacher out to get him,
so he throws out right hooks like confetti
to keep the future outta his face.

And he coulda warned us of his stiff driftwood limbs,
His cliff chin, bleached afro
his boxer’s posture stiff as a statue.
The police scanner in the hatchback rego’d to his nana
its chipped bonnet the raw snout of an angry Staffy cross.
He just come on the course for some free gumboots, Red Bands, the good ones
and a cuppa tea and to bum a couple rollies
coz dole day’s always light years away, it’s the sun on overcast Thursdays.

Coulda said it all when he enrolled.
Instead we let him write himself off,
watched a bad day’s dad-dissed stiff bitten fingertips chrysalis into a fist,
emerge as a kinghit, sugary instant coffee spilled and a narc knocked on its back,
called 111, filed Form 8(a), ticked the right box, got it stamped, signed, and filed
and on the same form applied for Post-It notes and white-out
and had him in the outbox by knock-off.

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from Loudmouth: Page and Pub Poems, released March 7, 2021

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Michael Botur Whangarei, New Zealand

Michael Botur is a New Zealand poet and fiction writer of European heritage. He is author of ten books and has won a bunch of bigshot writing awards.
'Loudmouth: Page and Pub Poems' collects 15 years of spoken word verse from one of NZ's most dynamic young poets. Perfect for anyone who loves the personal mixed w the political, a little bit of hip hop and plenty of attitude.
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