Provoked

By Daz Pearce

Provoked is the performance poetry debut of former Electro Angst Unilimited frontman Daz Pearce.

In Provoked, Daz takes us on a white knuckle ride around the modern world, illustrating the absurdities of human behaviour and challenging conventional wisdom. Prepare to be provoked!!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Aug 11, 2019
• ISBN: 9780244809362

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Provoked

Provoked

Copyright

Copyright 2019 Daz Pearce

ISBN 978-0-244-80936-2

All rights reserved – the unauthorised distribution or reproduction of this work is prohibited

Provoked

The thought that I'd upset you was enough to make me see

cos if I have upset you know this is upsetting me

Got me travelling to a previously perturbing place

forced by buried truths, too fucking frightening to face

I guess what I thought was dead happened simply to be latent

when the facts changed so did my behaviour, that is blatant

Denial now over, all six senses starting to offload

doing one-thirty down the wrong side of the fucking road

I swing around street corners

hoping that you might appear

My inner unicorn has

started bursting into tears

He doesn't do emotional

and certainly could not cry

But turns daftly devotional

when the thought of you goes by

Is this love I bask in

or just a case of  indigestion?

Strike that cos I'm asking

a much better binary question

The choice is pretty stark

depending on what you might say

Straightforward light or dark

pure black and white, no shades of grey

What we need is a straightener, a fixer, a resolver

so here honey please let me pass you this revolver

Slides across the table and conveniently lands

right next to you, so just pick it up with both your hands

Now by all means inform me that my Christmas has come early

not impossible at all but unlikely yeah, surely

But failing that you gorgeous, special and talented cow

pull that trigger, shoot and stop my stupidity NOW

Only you can end it

only you can unfriend it

I'm way too far gone to even comprehend it

Yeah you can command it

You truly understand it

If I tried to fly this thing I'd probably crash land it

I went to the bathroom for a panic attack

Mused for a minute I might not make it back

You're a multiple minx, a venereal thriller

My heart's going like a fucking serial killer

I've got needles for fingers, saucers for eyes

Lose the false modesty, don't act surprised

Hey just to confirm what you already knew

There