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Johnny Panic & the Bible of Dreams - Inspiration Pawn

from THIS IS NOT A SINGLE by Jimmy Andrex

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One too many gigs where ‘HANDS UP FOR A REVOLOOOSHUUUUN! Gets a cheer probably caused this. See also artists writing long social media posts about how they’ve left the Labour Party because it’s “not socialist enough.”

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Inspiration Porn

This poem I did: less a poem, more a play.
I dreamt it like Dog Day Afternoon;
A skilfully scripted siege scenario;
Where somehow I’m the one with the gun
coerced like Patty Hearst and cursed
to use an Uzi and supervise
The hostages but also I’ve gone undercover
To tip off the cops but it turns out, in turn,
During a terrifying twist in the toilets scene,
that in style it’s switched to a slasher movie,
backed by a grant from Arts Council England
Whose funding conditions caused me to be cut.
Now I’m not in it any more,
Confirming my first and worst suspicions.


And what the audience want is a safe revolution
Where the birdies still go tweet-tweet-tweet.

I’d harried a horde of hangers-on
Proposing people who might be impressed
But they’re trolling me ‘cos the plot’s now not
As advertised; The snappy dialogue’s banter
Macheted to shreds of showoff rambling;
I blurt some sort of sterile warning,
To mention it’s a metaphor; a means
of snatching back control from the chaps.
But it isn’t. And where’s the wit? The wisdom?
The quirks of colloquial characterisation?

By now, the gun seemed out of place,
The plot was shot to shit, shredded:
Decaying away to circular Debates
with racist relatives we were made to face,
Til they succumbed to grumbling lungs.
Even worse, the earlier curse
Means what was real has been replaced
With everyday treasure we’ll never get back.

Understandably the actors want paying in cash,
Now I’m stuck because I seem to have stabbed
An Arts Council Tsar in an artisan caff
during discussions at the development stage.
So now all I’ve got is a plotless plot
And a formless poem with no ending.

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from THIS IS NOT A SINGLE, released January 17, 2023
Words and music Jimmy Andrex

Additional vocal Ali Bullivent

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Jimmy Andrex Wakefield, UK

Without a clue what he's doing or why, Jimmy performs all over the UK either with or without music.

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