slow and steady

renting a big, bright room in barnet
working for a landscape gardener, picking
the pekingese shit from large lawns
watched one day by some
old  boy
slow and steady, young man
slow and steady
slow and steady? slow and steady? up my arsehole
walking
off that job but
doing others later

buying a very old mazda from a 3-bedroom
semi in hendon, they guy is a greengrocer, loves bikes, does coke
sells us some

it's cheap: he needs the space and it has
no windscreen just a plastic sheet
driving it anyway like that for weeks, losing
patience on a long run of speedbumps
terrifying passengers taking it onto the pavement somewhere
in south london on the way
to see joe lewis (louis?)

no, not the greatest heavyweight the world has
ever seen, just some
bloke with long hair