Name: Somebody to Smoke With
Duration: P00H01M48S
Description: This one's about why men get together to do dirty deeds.

Somebody to Smoke With

from Loudmouth: Page and Pub Poems by Michael Botur

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This one's about why men get together to do dirty deeds.

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Somebody To Smoke With

I sat the Friday night in a Subaru
in a car park with male ape mates in oversized
XL white
t-shirts suckin on pipes
Just for somebody to smoke with.

Did three weeks sweaty sunburned work
pushin a post hole borer in the dirt
with an ex-con who shared his pipe,
wet with spit from our lips
At knock-off we said Bugger It, wiped ourselves down
with a paint-stiffened towel,

shared a bucketa crunchy KFC motivated by munchies,
washed it down with cans of bourbon cola Cody’s
pleased to have a bro to share a cone and a Family Feast. We

grown men make out like we be staunch, strong, chill, unafraid
like we ain’t at pains to get praised, get laid
cause we could get hit by a bus any day
Men in their 30s, 40s, 50s. Men in matching patches, hoodies,

men in rugby stubbies, men in cycle-lycra
Men having mid-life crises, dreams of ephedrine
Men ram-raiding Unichem pharmacies
at 4.15 on a Thursday morning, squealing tyres and guilty pleas
And getting bulldogs and BPs etched on our cheeks

Consigning us to a life we can’t come back from,
like tryina climb a hydroslide
All cause we wanted somebody to be a bloke with
To feel less alone, somebody to smoke with.

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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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