BIG DADDY

—for Ted Hughes

You don’t’ do it, you don’t do it—

Not any more, not any more for me

You’re just a lousy Yorkshire prick

Just another Mytholmroyd mooch

Just another gigolo outta the moors

Big Daddy, I had to kill you—

You died before you could become

A big bag full of shit Poet Laureate

Ghastly glittering Easter Island slab

Xmas present for all the pub whores

Panther, Fox, Pike, Prick—

Right outta some freaky British zoo

Mythologizing your tres boorish manhood

Your haughty Heathcliff meandering meat

It got stuck up there a lot in inside me

I thought you were a train engine—

Your Big Bad Daddy ugly Panzer Prick

Huffing and puffing and pulling me

All the way to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen

Always stuffing my head in some oven

Just call me Madame Sosostris—

After my lovely gipsy auntie ancestress

Like hoity-toity Miss Eliot of Faber & Faber

Doing you at his swanky cocktail part

Such a brand new Bad Boy talented poet!

Naturally Miss Auden is jealous—

But she settles for sloppy seconds

Gobbling your gobbledygook goo

As if it were ambrosia of the godz

How faggots love a butchy fascist!

Especially a Big Bad Brute like you—

Breaking pretty little hearts in two

I used to always think that way too

Thinking you were so very tall & cool

But now I know you’re just a fool

You’d pull it out in the sack—

How I loved it, your rack and your screw

How I said I do, I do, Big Daddy, I do!

Gimme your nice big Mein Kampf Meatloaf

Strangle me like a rabid Rabbit Hunter

The black telephone rings off the hook—

I pull it outta you by the fucking root

You worm your way deep inside me

You turn me upside-down, inside-out

Then you go to the local pub and pout

But Daddy, Daddy, you’re dead now—

I shot you in the head with your shotgun

Fucking Assia there in the graveyard

Court Green spermy Splendor in the Grass

You shot your big wad and then I shot you

I buried your big fat black heart—

Down deep in the dark Devon cemetery

Dancing and stomping over your grave

Big Daddy, Big Daddy, I’m done with you

Big Daddy, Big Daddy, down there in the dirt