2001 Hyperdigm Entertainment

CLIFF

    (from Demolition)

    Oh, Cliff
    Sometimes it must be difficult not to feel as if
    You really are a Cliff
    When fascists keep trying to push you over it
    Are they the lemmings?
    Or are you Cliff?
    Or are you, Cliff?

    [Rick messes up the last line, and has to repeat it with the correct emphasis.]


NEIL

    (from Demolition)

    What are you doing, Neil?
    To make a meal, Neil? (it's surreal)
    From totalitarian vegetables.
    How much does it cost, Neil...?


HOUSE

    (from Demolition)

    House, house, house
    Oh, you are made of stone
    But you are not alone-
    -ly house!


POLLUTION

    (from Bomb)

    Pollution
    All around
    Sometimes up
    And sometimes down
    But always around.
    Pollution, are you coming to my town?
    Or am I coming to yours?
    We're on different buses, pollution
    But we're both using petrol.


FREE-FORM

    (from Flood)

    Marrow
    Meringue
    Boomerang
    Long, blue boomerang...


THE PEOPLE'S POEM

    (from Flood)

    What do you think you're doing, pig?
    Do you really give a fig, pig?
    And what's your favourite sort of gig, pig?
    Barry Manilow
    Or the black and white minstrel show?


NEIL

    (fromSick)

    Oh Neil!
    Neil!
    Orange peel!


RICK'S TEEN ANGUISH POEM

    (from Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones Book)

    oh god,
    why
    am I so much more sensitive than everybody else ?
    why
    do I feel things so much more acutely than them,
    and understand so much more.
    I bet I'm the first person who's ever felt as rotten as this.
    could it be
    that I'm going to grow up
    to be a great poet and thinker, and all those other wankers in my
    class are going to have to work in factories or go on the dole?
    yes, I think it could.


RICK'S TROTSKY POEM

    (from Bachelor Boys:The Young Ones Book)

    Today, I saw a dog,
    Yes, a dog.
    Talking to a pig,
    Yes, a pig.
    They were on the pavement,
    Discussing Trotsky.
    Not brotsky or crotsky or drotsky or frotsky.
    But Trotsky.

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