Her First Spoon and Pusher

 

Her First Spoon and Pusher

 

They puke up recommendations

you know – from algorithms,

other selections you might enjoy

along those lines, I don’t care enough

to fact check that stuff,

I’m sure you’re quick enough cotton on,

an idiom and archaic phrase

that comes from the adhesive state

of fibres, since I asked; you didn’t.

I see these videos all the time

and is it on the nose to point it out

along the lines of - well, why?

There’s another one you may’ve missed,

harks back to railways, theodolites and such;

gangs of navvies glyphing millstone grit

to carve their initials there.

But look, try not to snigger as he stares

pretty vacant - clickbait, you’d call it, not me:

it’s My Daughter’s 1st Listen

to ‘Home by the Sea’. That’s all?

Genesis, 43 years old, not great,

off an album thought third rate,

not a patch on Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme

which are definitely beyond this pair,

but could I give a monkey’s? Not me.

Here’s a few I’ve tossed off, feel free:

My daughter’s first bib, first beaker, first fart,

her very first piece of very shitty art,

look - her very first Barcelona baby-gro,

and maybe someday he’ll actually go

to Spain, Portugal or Mother Russia.

Fuck him; his adoption of half assed tunes -

and if you’re watching her very first spoon

then check out her very first pusher.